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BE750 Global Project Management - University of Essex

Part A

This part of the assignment will focus on demonstrating your knowledge and understanding over issues, challenges and best practices in implementing project management principles in real-life business environment. For this part of the assignment, you need to discuss the following points:

- Identify two projects (one successful and another unsuccessful) from a sector of your choice (public, private or third sector). Once you have selected a sector (for example, private sector), the discussion on both successful and unsuccessful projects should be from the same sector (i.e. from the private sector).
- Describe the background of these two projects discussing the context of the project, objectives, key stakeholders and desired outcomes.

- Critically review these two projects and discuss how these two projects are different in terms of the processes used to develop them at different stages of the project life cycle and their final outcomes.
- Critically examine the causes of success and failure of these projects, and discuss how the success / failure of the projects were measured.
- Critically discuss the recommendations you could provide to the project team of the unsuccessful project to successfully achieve their objectives.

Part B

This part of the assignment will focus on your reflection on key characteristics of an effective ‘project manager' and the skills required to become one. For this part of the assignment, you need to address the following points:
- Critically discuss the key characteristics of an effective project manager and evaluate your skills against these characteristics.
- Identify potential areas for improvement in your skills and discuss how you would plan to improve your skills to become an effective project manager.

General Guidelines:

In your essay, you should incorporate your independent thinking and use real-life examples to support your arguments. You are expected to research on project management concepts, models and practices from a wide range of literature. You should provide solid justifications of your arguments by integrating findings from these literatures into your discussion. It is crucial that the discussions should be based on extensive reading of relevant literature, and most importantly on critical reflection on key issues.

You should appropriately cite different sources of literature, including books, journal articles, newspaper reports, business magazines, company reports, corporate websites and other credible sources of information to frame and justify your arguments.

Attachment:- Global Project Management.rar