ask 2

Instructions:

1. Develop the project plan, covering the principal management areas of:

   • Scope
   • Time
   • Cost
   • Risk
   • Quality
   • Communications
   • Stakeholders
   • Human Resources

   Your coverage of each management area should include:

   • A general account of how you will go about the management of the area (200-300 words)
   • The application of one or more key tools and/or techniques and/or methods to the management of the area

2. In developing the project plan, it would be helpful for you to consider:

   1. What would your role be in planning and delivering the project?
   2. How your project plan will meet organisational objectives and overall goals.
   3. How could you ensure that the project aligns with the organisations vision and mission, and why this is necessary.
   4. What resources would you need and how would you source them?
   5. Why should you and how would you consult with team members in the planning stage of the project and throughout the projects implementation?
   6. How would you monitor the quality of outcomes?
   7. How would you ensure that you met project timelines?
   8. How you would handle a change request (for example, if a key stakeholder requested a signficant change to the project at the halfway point?)
   9. What project management tools would you use and why would they be most useful?
   10. How and why would you delegate roles and tasks?
   11. How would you design and develop risk management and contingency plans and cater for any health and safety issues?
   12. What methods would you use to clarify roles, responsibilities and lines of authority?
   13. Describe in detail how the budget would be prepared and used as a communication and monitoring tool.
   14. Explain the data collection, recordkeeping and reporting processes that would apply to the project.
   15. What legislation would apply to the project and how would you ensure compliance with it?
   16. What are your project deliverables?
   17. Why should you and how would you review project outcomes and processes?

   Your response should be long enough to address the requirements of a good project plan 1,500-2,000 words is suggested.