MGT5IPM International Project Management Assignment Help

Scenario

You have been appointed by the Australian federal government to provide a critique of the conduct of the $80B Attack Class submarine program. So as not to arouse political suspicion you are to base your advice exclusively on data contained in the source materials from the Defence Connect website – an article dated 20 January 2020 titled, “$80bn future submarine program runs aground, again”. You are to treat the submarine contract as a continuing effort with no prospect of being halted and restarted in another form. Remember you are producing a consulting report, not a research report. All recommendations must be based exclusively on details contained in the article nominated above. As the tendering and competitive evaluation process is deemed to have been handled well it is specifically excluded from the scope of your submission.

The scope of the task:

Please read the press report:

https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/maritime-antisub/5422-80-billion-future-submarine-program-runs-aground-again
 
You have been bought into the submarine project to advise the Australian government on the following four questions:

4. Given that this project already uses robust project management methodologies how might you prevent further “time-frame slippage” referred to in the report?