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SBM1101 Project Management - Asia Pacific International College

Assessment: Article Summary

Assessment Details:

The students are expected to select a published journal article (not older than 5 years) from the field of project management related to Adoption of Agile methodology in Industry (Engineering, Construction or any domain of your choice) and summarize the article's main topic(s), aim/ purpose, key points and conclusions clearly in 400 (min.) to 500 words (max.). Students must provide the article's website link and correctly provide the article's reference in the submitted word file. The link and reference are not included in the word count.

Assessment 2: Case Study

Assessment Details:

This assessment is designed to assess your analytical skills for a failed project. Each student needs to select a real-life project that has already been completed but failed in terms of meeting schedule, budget or customer requirements. Students need to describe specific reasons of mismanagement by the Project Management team that resulted in the failure. Students need to review various project methodologies and recommend an appropriate PM methodology that could have been better suited to manage this failed project. Students need to justify their recommendation to convince the company's management to improve the organization's processes for the future.

Students are expected to discuss their work with lecturer and seek support. By completing this assessment successfully, you will be able to achieve ULO-4 (Apply knowledge and tools to projects in the work environment including setting up relevant systems and controls) and ULO-5 (Analyse project situations including strategic intent, business case, framework or governance issues and recommend solutions).

Assessment 3: Applied Project and Presentation

Assessment Details:

This assessment is designed to assess your technical skills in developing and communicating a project effectively. You are required to form a group (5 students max.). All groups are required to investigate, analyse and report on the correct initiation of the project by applying PMBOK methodology of a case study project that has already been completed. The group needs to select an industrial project from any domain (IT, construction, banking), study the project details and prepare and present the assessment assuming that the group have travelled back in time and are seeking approval of the project from the management for its initiation. The Sydney Opera House, the Chunnel Tunnel, Melbourne's Metro Tunnel are examples of such projects. The report must contain the following project documents:

• Project background
• Project scope
• Draft stakeholder register
• Draft business case
• Draft project charter
• Organisational structure
• Design and application of Balanced Score Card
• Recommendations for project governance

Harvard reference style

Attachment:- Project Management.rar