CONSULTATION PROJECTS

You are appointed as a senior project manager of a Project Consulting Company, a leading

project management consultancy firm in South Africa. You have been assigned to lead a team

of five junior consultants who have recently joined the company. As part of the business duties,

you have to complete a series of project management consultation assessments for clients. The

assessments will test knowledge, skills, and abilities in various aspects of project management,

such as project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.

The assessments will be based on real$-$life scenarios that Consulting has encountered or may

encounter in the future. The scenarios will involve different types of clients, industries, and

projects. The assessments will also require the consultants to apply various project

management tools, techniques, and methodologies.

The assessments will be conducted in the form of consultations, where the consultants will act

as project managers and provide advice, guidance, and solutions to the clients. The

consultations will be delivered in different formats. The consultations will be evaluated by you

and other senior project managers based on the quality, accuracy, relevance, and creativity of

the consultants' work.

QUESTION ONE

You are preparing for a speech at a banquet for South Africa's top $100$ businesses. Since you know

that these businesses' success is partly the result of their well$-$developed and established methods of

project team development, you decide to highlight this in your speech. However, you don't want to

just name the benefits of a project team, so you decide to identify one benefit and motivate how this

can be executed to lead to business success. You decide to focus on the following benefit:

You decide to involve your fellow business consultants of your project group to assist with this task.

Critically discuss the Methods of Developing Project Team.

QUESTION TWO

The owner of the local Pick $n$ Pay Cape Town, Mr John Frida, contacts you for advice. He is in the

process of strategizing about possible market penetration. He wants you to suggest a single most

important Success Factors for Managing Project Quality $($KSF$)$ that he can capitalize on to pursue his

strategy.

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