Project Proposal Assignment - Instructions

Instructions:

• You have all been hired as project managers in a healthcare environment (hospital, community organization, long-term care home, private practice).
• Your objective is to identify and implement a project of your choice.
• You are allowed to be creative when coming up with the parameters and details of the project.
• This assignment asks you to develop a project proposal.
• This project proposal will carry through to your final project assignment - you may want to review the instructions for the final project before proceeding with your project proposal.

Project templates

Template 4.1 Project proposal

Project title
Sponsor
Proposed by

1. Background to the project: [Briefly explain the context and the problem or opportunity that gives rise to the project]
2. Goals and objectives; [What is the project aiming to achieve?]
3. Rationale: [Why should these goals be pursued through a project?]
4. Scope: [Briefly state the boundaries of the project, i.e., what is included and what is excluded.]
5. Deliverables: [What will this project produce?]
6. Stakeholders: [Who has power and influence, who will be directly affected by the project? What are their concerns likely to be?]
7. Timeframe and resourcing estimates: [What is the likely duration of the project? What at the likely types and amounts of resources (labour and non-labour) required? What is the likely source of funding?]
8. Risks and key assumptions:[Identify all known major risks the project faces, and outline the major assumptions that may affect the project's viability or success.]