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MBA642 Project Initiation, Planning and Execution - Kaplan Business School

Your task

These jeans were a market failure. Create a project management plan to turn them into success.

Assessment Description

In this individual assessment, students will be given an opportunity to analyse the organisational factors that promote effective project management by analysing elements of the project management planning and execution phases that may give rise to ethical compromises. More importantly, students will practice creating an integrated project management plans that meet industry standards and objectives.

Assessment Instructions

» Construct a plan to project manage these Levi jeans to success using the five stages of IPECC as per PMBOK.

» Use the criteria for success from assessment 1 and software that would be the best fit for this task from assessment 2. Justify both these choices.

» Use research and common sense to find all the data you need for each step in your complete project plan

» Please refer to the marking guide to assist you in completing all the assessment criteria.

» The jeans were a market failure. Explain why, in terms of how they were project managed.

» How will you project manage them to success? What will you do?

» Using each of the five stages of IPECC, explain in each step what you would be doing to make each stage successful.

» Be specific. Relate what you say directly to Levi Jeans.

» No generic theory or unsubstantiated claims.

» References must be directly relevant to Levi Jean. For example; not vague distantly related articles on general clothing. Jeans are a distinct genre.

» You MAY need to research such things as: costs, marketing, demographic of target market, market forces, international factors, skills & personalities of PM team, Levi stakeholders, Levi culture, competitors project management tactics and others.

» In Ass 1 you had to list the criteria for success of your project. Would any of these factors be useful for the jeanssuccess. Explain why.

» Use headings and subheadings to make your information easy for markers to find.

Attachment:- Project Initiation - Planning and Execution.rar