Reference no: EM132221283 , Length: word count:4000
Project make on "A failed project: Opera House Sydney"
Critical Analysis Report
- The primary purpose of this assessment is to help you to develop and demonstrate your skills in the use of project management concepts, principles, theories and arguments about the project management execution phase.
- Demonstrate your understanding of the real application of Control Systems.
- Analyse and argue what type of Control Systems will enable better or worse project outcomes.
- Research and choose a real-life failed project or a project which failed to meet the deadline, exceeded the allocated budget etc.
- Ideally, you should have worked on the failed project or someone you know may have worked otherwise google through for it from the industry of your interest.
- Discuss and finalise the failed project name with your tutor.
- Assessment 3 (report + presentation) is a group work for on-campus students and individual for Distance students.
- Form your group (maximum of 3 students).
- Understand the project context, issues and control systems applied during the execution phase.
- Find out the causes of its failures and analyse the control systems applied.
- Critically evaluate the effectiveness of applied control systems and stakeholder's management.
- Snapshot of the project you have chosen.
- Introduction to the project you have chosen.
- Major reasons for the failure of the project.
- Control Systems: explanation of the range of control systems used for cost, schedule, scope and quality.
- Analysis of the reasons for cost and/or time overruns.
- Analysis of the extent to which the project execution team could be held responsible of the incurred time and/or cost overruns.
- Analysis of the relationship between the problems you identified in cost and/or time overruns and the stakeholders' needs and influence.
- Analysis of the project management actions that could have been taken to better control the project and stakeholders in order to increase the chance for successful delivery.
- Conclusion which identifies the key lessons that project management can learn from the experience of the project.
- Report should be of 4000 +- 5% words (excluding references and appendices).
1. Project Information: Is the project snapshot appropriate?
2. Introduction: Is the introduction of the chosen failed project appropriate?
3. Major Issues: Are the issues and problems described about the project failure appropriate?
4. Control Systems: Is the explanation of the range of control systems used for cost, schedule, quality and scope reasonable?
5. Analysis of cost and/or schedule overruns: Are the reasons given for the cost and/or time overruns encountered during the project appropriate?
6. Analysis of the project execution team: Is the analysis of the extent to which the project execution team could be held responsible of the incurred time and/or cost overrun appropriate?
7. Analysis of relationship between overruns and the stakeholders: Is the analysis of the relationship between the problems you identified in cost and/or time overruns and the stakeholders expectations appropriate?
8. Analysis of possible actions for success: Are the analysis of the project management actions that could have been taken to better control the project and stakeholders in order to increase the chance for successful delivery appropriate?
9. Conclusion: Is the conclusion which identifies the key lessons that project management can learn from the experience of the project appropriate?
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