Project Brief

The formative assignment required you to demonstrate the correct use of certain project management tools and theories, and then apply them to a particular case study. In this assessment, you are required to apply these tools and theories to your actual working context.

Step 1:

Identify ANY three real-life projects, preferably from your professional working environment. These can involve your work or work in the department in which you are employed. Tips for choosing your projects:

The most suitable projects are those that you might, reasonably, have authority and agency over. This ensures you will have a more detailed understanding of any complexities involving stakeholders, formal and informal authorities, and issues of power and interest.

The projects need to focus on areas that could provide improvements in your department in terms of quality of work, working processes and efficiencies, or the customer/client experience.

You will not be required to execute the project.

Ethical and confidentiality declaration:

For ethical and confidentiality reasons, you must replace the real name of your organization, and possibly department, with a fictitious name.

You must also not use the real names of people in the organization, customers, clients, or external organizations.

1.1 Provide a statement in which you explain the reasons for ethical and confidentiality considerations (including that the real names of organizations and all stakeholders have been replaced). (1)

Step 2:

Write two paragraphs for each of the projects you identified in Step 1.

The first paragraph should explain the project holistically and motivate your choice of project.

The second paragraph should provide the financial aspects of each project, which you will use to evaluate and compare their viability. TIP: select one of the tables provided on the following page for financial considerations and to support your approach.

Project data

Project 1 (2)

Project 2 (2)

Project 3 (2)

Table 1: Financial Considerations

Based on your answers to questions 1.2 to 1.4, explain which one of the three projects you would select to implement. Motivate your selection. (3)