Critical Analysis Report
PPMP 20010
:Executing and Closing Projects
Minimum
pass marks – 20 (50%)
• The primary purpose of this assessment
is to help you to develop and demonstrate your skills in the use of project
management concepts, principles, theories and arguments about the project
management execution phase.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the
real application of Control Systems.
• Analyze and argue what type of Control
Systems will enable better or worse project outcomes.
• Assessment 3 is due in Week 12 but you
need to get started earlier on this assessment as it is worth 40%.
• Research and choose a real-life failed
project or a project which failed to meet the deadline, exceeded the allocated
budget etc.
• Ideally, you should have worked on the
failed project or someone you know may have worked otherwise Google through for
it from the industry of your interest.
• Discuss and finalize the failed project
name with your tutor.
• Assessment 3 (report + presentation) is
a group work for on-campus students and individual for Distance students.
• Form
your group (maximum of 3 students).
• Email the project name and your group members
names to your tutor by end of week 4.
• Understand the project context, issues
and control systems applied during the execution phase.
• Find out the causes of its failures and analyze
the control systems applied.
• Critically evaluate the effectiveness of
applied control systems and stakeholder’s management.
• Make recommendations for how its failure
could have been avoided.
• Snapshot of the project
you have chosen.
• Introduction to the project
you have chosen.
• Major reasons for the failure
of the project.
• Control
Systems: explanation of the range of control systems used for cost, schedule, scope
and quality.
• Analysis
of
the reasons for cost and/or time overruns.
• Analysis
of
the extent to which the project execution
team could be held responsible of the incurred time and/or cost overruns.
• Analysis
of
the relationship between the problems you
identified in cost and/or time overruns and the stakeholders’ needs and
influence.
• Analysis
of
the project management actions that could
have been taken to better control the project and stakeholders in order to
increase the chance for successful delivery.
• Conclusion
which
identifies the key lessons that project
management can learn from the experience of the project.
• Report should be of 4000 +- 5% words
(excluding references and appendices).
• Presentation
is worth 10% marks.
• Presentations will be held in Week 12
during the tutorial for on-campus students and via Zoom for Distance students.
• Presentation should follow a similar
structure as per your critical analysis report
• Report and presentation files must be submitted
together in Moodle in Week 12
• Refer to the Unit Profile in Moodle for
further details
• Project
snapshot (2%)
• Introduction (5%)
• Major Issues (8%)
• Control Systems (15%)
• Analysis of cost and/or schedule
overruns (10%)
• Analysis of the project execution team
(10%)
• Analysis of relationship between
overruns and the stakeholders (10%)
• Analysis of possible actions for success
(10%)
• Conclusion (10%)
• Appropriate, well structured, concise
and clear understanding of project management arguments (10%)
• Clarity of expression, language, format,
references and presentation of the written report (10%)
•
Preparation and consistency of
presentation (10%)
•
Set up and use of visual aids, including
power point slides (10%)
•
Presentation content is relevant to the
topic (20%)
•
Content is clear, concise and relevant
(20%)
•
Response to Questions during Q&A
(10%)
•
Content is explained well (20%)
•
Presentation manner (5%)
•
Timing including Q&A (5%)
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