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CEN4009-N Advanced Project Planning and Visualisation - Teesside University
Assignment - Literature Review
PART 1
There is an increasing demand in the international market for high quality project managers to run multinational and multi-sites projects. As a Project Manager you have been given the task by an international company to identify qualities and attributes of project managers with emphasis on project planning and project organisation domain.
You need to include the following, backed-up with journals, books and references:
(Maximum 1000 words)
1. Communications, with emphasis on a project manager working remotely with project team members.
2. Managing multi-cultural project stakeholders.
3. Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues.
Part 2
Multi-constraints planning
Discuss and analyse the practicality of multi-constraints planning application in the industrial sector in which you have experience. Provide outline analysis of value and constraints of applying the approach. Use the following papers as a reference for your discussion (1000 words). You need to build bibliography of at least 20 recent (within the last 5 years) references from a range of sources.
Zhen-Zhong Hu, Jian-Ping Zhang, Frang-Qiang Yu,Pei-Long Tian and Xue-Song Xiang (October 2016) Construction and facility management of large MEP projects using a multi-Scale building information model, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 100, 215-230.
Nashwan Dawood and Eknarin Sriprasert (January 2006), Construction scheduling using multi-constraint and genetic algorithms approach, Construction Management and Economics, 19-30.
Assignment - Technical Report
PART 1
A Teesside PLC has won a contract to work on a major Project to start on 1st September 2021. As a Project Manager you need to develop and analyse the planning schedule for this project using MS-Project. Your project team has identified major activities of the project, their dependency and resources needed to run each activity (see Appendix 1).
Appendix 1 provides information about the project, which includes project logic (activity links and their relationship - finish to start (FS), start to start (SS), and start to finish (SF)), activity durations, resource allocation and work breakdown structure (WBS).
A: Draw WBS for the project (must include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4) and discuss the importance of WBS as a Project Management tool. (250 words)
B: Explain why identification of the critical path is important. Also explain the difference between As Soon As Possible (ASAP) and As Late as Possible (ALAP) methods. (250 words)
C: Explain and discuss the process of resource levelling. (250 words)
D: Compare pros and cons of various project planning and scheduling software available on the market. Which one would you choose in your future career and why? (250 words)
PART 2
4D Planning
1. Reflect upon your experience attending Synchro Pro lab session in Week 7. What can this software do, would it be useful for your future career and why (500 words)?
2. Define 4D planning. Discuss the purpose and benefits of 4D systems as a Project Management tool in an Engineering industry (500 words )
Attachment:- Advanced Project Planning and Visualisation.rar