7115IBA Managing Complex Projects - A2: Overall Critical Analysis

Task:

This assignment requires the application of conceptual tools and theories selected and explained in A1 to critically analyse your PfL. You will need to develop an integrated understanding of the multiple dimensions of the project, in order to explain the ‘hows/whys’ of the project’s outcomes. Informed personal reflection (based on the application of conceptual tools and theory) on project management processes, surrounded by specific situations and leading to specific outcomes, constitutes the core of this assignment. A minimum of 5 academic references must be used to substantiate your arguments. Thus, this assignment was designed to get you thinking critically about how concepts/theories for managing complex projects are applied in diverse context-situations. It was also designed to develop your generic skills in writing and presenting logical and persuasive arguments. To develop this major report, you have to go through four major components:

Component 1: Introduction, you must briefly describe your PfL, explaining the main issues of you PfL; and describe what you will present in the following sections. Please enclose a copy of your (up to) 4-page summary of PfL in the Appendix.
Component 2: Is an analysis of the type of project complexity associated to your PfL.

Based on your selected models from Theme 1 (Step 3 in A1), you need to apply and explain how the model(s) you have selected helps to explain how the type of complexity associated to your PfL affected the development of the project. You do not need to describe the selected model(s).
Component 3: Is the application of theories/concepts (selected from themes 2-4 and explained in Step 4 in A1), to perform an overall analysis of your PfL. Here you need describe links between theories and practice, explain (compare and contrast) ideas and apply them to your PfL raising practical implications.
Component 4: Is conclusions. By integrating arguments developed in components 2 and 3, students must provide an overall critical analysis of your PfL. Additionally, in this section you must reflect about the strengths and  limitations of tools and concepts used and their connections with the competing contingencies that shaped your PfL.