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Project Assignment

There are 6 topic in the box with references. Each one need 400 words and no need in text reference. Please follow the questions of each one to do one by one.

Part 1: Project Planning

1. What is project planning?
2. What is time-scheduling and how does it help in planning a project?
3. What tools are available to help project managers plan out tasks?
4. What is Critical Path Analysis? How does it work?
5. Practice your techniques for CPA.

Part 2: Learning Lessons

1. Why is ‘lessons learned' important in Project Management?
2. How can lessons be captured?
3. What are the advantages and barriers of capturing lessons?
4. How can lessons be used?

Part 3: Stakeholder Management

There should be a distinct structure to your answer, which may include:

1. What is Stakeholder Management? (Possible definition)

2. Briefly highlighting what the stakeholder management process is, with an emphasis on what the ‘analysis' part of the process aims to achieve.

3. How stakeholder management contributes to large scale projects.

4. Examples of analysis tools that might be used (i.e. stakeholder management matrix, stakeholder mapping, stakeholder management cycle) - citing theory where appropriate.

5. Benefits - which may include: winning support for the project, winning resources, publicising the project, influencing key stakeholders, stakeholders having input into how the project is shaped, continuous monitoring of stakeholders.

6. Challenges - can be subjective, can be forgotten after planning stage, can cost money, or take up time that the project management team can't afford (particularly on large scale projects where scope may change and where there may be a large number of stakeholders).

7. Summary - Acknowledgement of how stakeholder management contributes to successful project management, with a particular emphasis on large scale projects, and why on larger scale projects it is even more important (complexity, more risky, likely to change etc).

Part 4: Risk Management

1. What is Risk Management?
2. How does it help a project in achieving success?
3. What tools/techniques/theories are available for Project Managers to use to assess and respond to project risks?
4. Selecting one of those tools, critically discuss how this might be used. Support your answer with appropriate example.

Part 5: Project Teams

1. What is a project team?

2. How can a project manager ensure he/she enables a team to perform well? What models/theories help us to understand team performance on projects?

3. What are the barriers to effective teamwork on a project? How can a project manager try to overcome these barriers?

4. Explain some of the key challenges a project manager may face when bringing together a new team. Propose how these challenges can best be managed.

Part 6: Project Governance

1. What are the four principles of effective project governance (Garland 2009)?
2. What other elements are included in the project governance?
3. What is the role of project governance?
4. Can the Project Manager conduct the Project Assurance role?
5. How PRINCE2 supports good project governance?