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KB7031 Project, Programme and Portfolio Management - University of Northumbria
Case study report: Project Management practice.
Learning Outcome 1: Establish conceptual understanding of the complex scenarios that multiple and major projects environments and settings have, including the relationships between projects, programmes or portfolios within host organisations.
Learning Outcome 2: Critically appraise existing project management knowledge and identify areas that can improve aspects of project delivery for stakeholders through the application of project management, theory or practice.
Learning Outcome 3: Critically reflect upon approaches to project problem-solving on real life projects, in order to evaluate, learn from, and adopt similar appropriate solutions in future professional practice.
Learning Outcome 4: Embrace critical thinking, to systematically identify, analyse, plan, produce, and then present, original work for academic review.
Learning Outcome 5: Embrace academic, ethical, and professional standards, through practice and conduct, whilst developing understanding of competence in project management.
Coursework Overview
Context statement: Projects are variously executed within or across volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments, that present various political, economic, social, technological, legal, or environmental (PESTLE) challenges. Project management provides a means of addressing these.
To help better understand project management practice and this context statement, the following coursework task is set. You are to self-select a Project Case Study, for the purposes of analysis and reflection. The ‘unit of analysis' in this case study report ultimately remains that of project management practice.
Analysis: This written submission should fully introduce the ‘case', provide a project description, and position it within a wider PPP context, before identifying and analysing the key project challenges faced, evaluating the solutions produced, to articulate those ‘lessons learned' that can inform future project management practice.
Reflection: Through theoretical, and evidence-based perspectives, reflect also upon the key elements of project management practice that you perceive have been applied on the selected project case. Discuss this by making use of current and salient academic (and relevant professional) literature from the subjects knowledge-base.
Therefore, the project case study acts a ‘contextual vehicle' you use to absorb and discuss current knowledge in the discipline of Project Management.
Coursework Tasks to be Completed by Students
Select a suitable case study project that is ripe for analysis. This could be a prominent, widely available case, where useful materials are readily and publicly available, or one that the student is currently, or has previously worked on. Such a project should only be one that you have normal access to information. If such a project is a ‘building' or ‘live site', then this should only be one that you have the ‘normal', and ‘necessary' permissions to access externally and/or internally (i.e. you are not to engage in any trespass of any building/site that you do not have normal permission to enter). Also note that you should not 'cold- contact' professionals to attempt to arrange access to any project that you do not have normal access to.
If you need a discussion to advise if the proposed project is suitable for the purposes of case study analysis, then arrange to have this discussion with one of the module tutors by teaching week 6.
In addition to the case study analysis, you should throughout the module, be equipping yourself on aspects of contemporary Project Management practice. To do this and develop your topic specific knowledge and understanding, and help you develop your intellectual skills and abilities in this subject, you are to engage with the academic and professional literature around the art, science, and discipline of Project Management.
Attachment:- Portfolio Management.rar