Task

Select a project to investigate. It should be a $$real$$ project; one that has a purpose you can investigate. It can be either a current or completed project, for which you can readily get information. If you are not currently involved in a project as a team member, then you must find one that you have permission to study $($collect data and interview people$)$ as an $$outsider$.$

The project should include a project team $($minimum of five people$)$ with a project leader, and be at least two or three months in duration. It should also have a specific goal in terms of a target completion date, a budget limit and a specified end$-$item result or product. It should be noted that general larger projects afford better opportunity to observe the concepts of project management than smaller ones.

If you are studying a project as an outsider, it is also a good idea to do it in a team with three to six people and an appointed team leader $($i$.$e$.$ perform the study using a team$).$ This, in essence, becomes your project team $$ organised for the purpose of studying a project. You can then readily apply many of the planning, organising, team$-$building and other procedures discussed throughout the module as practice and to see how they work. This $$hands$-$on$$ experience with your own team, combined with what you learn from the project you are studying, will give you a fairly accurate picture about problems encountered and management techniques used in real$-$life project management.

These are required to be in your portfolio submission:

Details of Project Conception $($Phase A$)$

e$.$g$.$ RFP or Business Case

Details of Project Definition $($Phase B$)$

Details of planning: budget, project schedule, cost, quality plan, risk assessment etc

Details of Project Execution $($Phase C$)$

Details of Operation $($Phase D$)$

Please also include the following information:

Type of contract used in the project

Any changes which occur during the project

What project methodology fits the project and why

Any analysis used in the project to improve the strategy $($e$.$g$.$ PESTEL, SWOT, stakeholder analysis, Porter$$s Five Forces model$).$ If you did not use any analysis tools, please try to apply at least one of those you learned in Week $11.$

Other information you learned from the module that can be applied to the project.

You will also need to provide references and bibliography. Please use at least between $5$ to $10$ academic references. More guidance on how to make references can be found here.