Assessment 3
- Weight: 40%
- Report: 30%, Presentation: 10%
• Report length:
- 4000 words (+/- 5%) excluding references
- 2500-3000 words (+/- 5%) for individuals (DST students only)
• Submission deadline:
- Week 12
• Submission:
- Only one member of the group should upload, check Turnitin ratio and then submit the assignment files on Moodle
Assessment 3
Alignment with Unit Learning Outcomes (LOs)
LO 1:
- Examine the knowledge areas and processes applied in the execution and closing stages of the project management life cycle
LO 2:
- Critically analyze how the needs of stakeholders might change the priority of outputs from the execution and closing stages of the project management life cycle
Assessment 3
• Assessment status:
- Group submission for on-campus students
- Group size: 3 students in a group
- Group or individual submission for DST (distance) learning students
• Report length:
- 4,000 words (+/- 5%) excluding references for group submissions
- 2,500-3,000 words excluding references for individual submissions (distance learning students only)
Assessment 3 - Submission
• Submission files:
- Written report in Word format
- Presentation slides in PowerPoint format
• Submission:
- Only one member of the group is to upload the assignment
- Check Turnitin well in advance to make changes if necessary
Assessment 3 - Purpose
- The primary purpose of this assignment:
- Help you develop and demonstrate your skills in the use of project management concepts, principles, theories and arguments during project management execution, monitoring, controlling and closing
- Demonstrate your understanding of the real application of control
- Analyse and argue what type of control systems will enable better or worse project
Assessment 3 - Scope
- Research and choose a real-life failed project g. that failed to meet the deadline, exceeded the allocated budget etc.
- Ideally, you or someone you know should have worked on the failed project for direct reference
- Otherwise search for a project in the industry of your interest or
- Discuss and finalise your choice of the (failed) project with your tutor in week 5
- Choose a project with plenty of information publicly available.
Assessment 3 - Scope
- Based on your research,
- Analyse the project context, issues and control systems applied during the execution
- Find out the causes of its failures and analyse the control systems
- Critically evaluate the effectiveness of applied
control systems and stakeholder’s management.
- Make recommendations for how its failure could have been
Critical Analysis Report - Format
- Snapshot of the project you have
- Introduction to the project you have
- Major reasons for the failure of the
- Control Systems: explanation of the range of control systems used for cost, schedule, scope and
- Analysis of the reasons for cost and/or time overruns and other problems
- Analysis of the extent to which the project execution team could be held responsible for the incurred problems
Critical Analysis Report – Format
- Analysis of the relationship between the problems you identified in cost and/or time overruns and the stakeholders’ needs and
- Analysis of the project management actions that could have been taken to better control the project and stakeholders in order to increase the chance for successful
- Conclusion which identifies the key lessons that project management can learn from the experience of the
Presentation
- Presentation is worth 10% of the unit total
- Presentations will be held during Week 12 tutorial
- Separate Zoom session for distance learning
- Presentation should follow a similar structure as your report
- Presentation must be shared equally among team members
- Time allowed 14 - 16 mins. per group and 10-15 minutes for distance learning
Marking Criteria – Written Report
- Familiarity with the project context, issues and control systems:
- Project snapshot (02%)
- Introduction (05%)
- Major issues (08%)
- Control systems (15%)
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Marking Criteria – Written Report
- Critical evaluation of the effectiveness of control systems, stakeholder influence and stakeholder management
- Analysis of cost and/or schedule overruns (10%)
- Analysis of the project execution team actions (10%)
- Analysis of relationship between problems/overruns and the stakeholders (10%)
- Analysis of possible actions for success (10%)
- Conclusion (10%)
- Appropriate, well structured, concise and clear understanding of project management arguments (10%)
- Clarity of expression, language, format, references and presentation of the written report (10%)
Marking Criteria - Presentation
- Students will be marked individually for:
- Preparation and consistency of presentation (10%)
- Understanding and relevance of the presentation content (50%)
- Response to questions during Q&A (30%)
- Timing including Q&A (05%)
Presentation manner
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