You are required to identify and select a project that you have worked on, whether as a
Question:
You are required to identify and select a project that you have worked on, whether as a project manager or project team member. If you have not worked on a project before or are unable to select a suitable project based on your work experiences, you should select a project that you know about and have sufficient access to the project's information. If you decide to select a project outside of your work experiences, there are projects in your local community, your country, the region, or internationally that you may be able to select as a case for this assignment. Please be deliberate in your selection or when choosing a project to work with. You should avoid selecting a project for which genuine information is difficult to obtain or a project for which information is not freely and/or publicly available. You should not select a project that is incomplete or in its conceptual stage.
Caution! Please avoid using project information that is confidential, contentious, subject to a legal proceeding, disputed, injurious, defamatory, or subjected to intellectual property protection.
Choose from any one of the list listed below, develop an analytical report of the project with specific focus on the components and answer the questions/statements that follow below:
- House project/ building or renovating a house
- Building a road/ road rehabilitation
- Building a bridge
- Solar panel project
- Tourism enhancement project
- Building a playground
- Reforestation/tree planting project
- Flood mitigation project
- Opening a new store/ starting a business
- A project to reduce delinquency
- COVID Vaccination project
Questions:
(1) State the name of the project and give a brief description of the project.
(2) Outline the problem(s) that the project was initiated to solve or the opportunity it exploited.
(3) Describe the technique or method used to select the project.
(4) Identify and describe at least five (5) characteristics that make this endeavour a project.
(5) Identify the project developmental approach used for the project. Give reasons or justification for your conclusion(s). Hint: (Agile, Waterfall/Traditional, or Hybrid approach?)
(6) Using your knowledge of the project life cycle and information gathered from the examination of the project documents, describe the phases of the project and the key activities/tasks associated with each phase of the project.
(7) List and describe at least three (3) key constraints of the project.
(8) Identify at least four (4) critical issues that the project management team faced in executing, monitoring, and controlling project work and discuss the strategies used to effectively manage these issues.
(9) Critically assess and comment on the success of the project from the following viewpoints:
a. Level or degree of alignment of end results and outcomes to the organization's strategic goals. b. Level of success in the management of the triple constraints of time, cost, and scope. c. Level or degree of customer/user satisfaction of results and outcomes d. Value created for the organization.
(10) Explain the processes and/or activities that the project team used to deliver a quality service, result, or product to the sponsor, customers, and users.
International Marketing And Export Management
ISBN: 9781292016924
8th Edition
Authors: Gerald Albaum , Alexander Josiassen , Edwin Duerr