PROGRAM: Project Management

COURSE: Advanced Project Planning and Visualisation

The Assignment is worth 50% of the module. Each part of this assignment is worth 25% of the module. PART 1 (50% of the assignment) There is an increasing demand in the international market for high quality project managers to run multinational and multi-sites projects. As a Project Manager you have been given the task by an international company to identify qualities and attributes of project managers with emphasis on project planning and project organisation domain. You need to include the following, backed-up with journals, books and references: (Maximum 1000 words) 1. Communications, with emphasis on a project manager working remotely with project team members. (17% of the assignment) 2. Managing multi-cultural project stakeholders. (17% of the assignment) 3. Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues. (16% of the assignment)