Assessment : Project report
Project report - 2,500 words excluding charts, tables, TOC, and appendices
In Week 3 or 4 your local tutor will assign students into groups to permit the group to collaborate and upload Assignment 2 as a group of four. To facilitate collaboration, a group wiki will be set up and must be used progressively to complete Assignment 2 (see wiki information below).
It is imperative that students complete the Activities at the end of Topic 3 in the Study Guide.
For Assignment 2, the project team is required to submit a report illustrating how the project team will apply the knowledge areas that have been learned in this unit to OurProject. The Project Report needs to address at a minimum the areas listed under "format for this assessment task" below.
As this is a piece of academic work, students are required to describe the purpose of each section of the Charter in paraphrased text, appropriately referenced to the prescribed textbook, the PMBoK, and/or readings on the learning site. Failure to do so will result in a reduction of marks for each marking criteria where this is not performed.
Wiki:
In Week 3 your local tutor will assign students to a group of four. A wiki will be set up within MySCU and access to each group wiki will be limited to the designated students, the local tutor and the Unit Assessor. No other student can access your group wiki.
The wiki must be used to progressively compile the required parts of Assignment 2 - OurProject Report aligned to the PMBoK knowledge areas. It is required that students place material in the wiki on a set progressive basis. That is, students will be required to place material, for example a WBS, in the week following the week that the topic is taught. For example, WBS is presented in Topic 4 / Week 4, and therefore students have until the end of Week 5 (Saturday at midnight NSW time) to place material and a WBS into the wiki
It is noted that there are two marking criteria for some of the PMBoK knowledge areas. It is suggested that different students take carriage of one of these elements in the wiki to ensure both are completed and placed in the wiki before the relevant time.
Just prior to the due date for Assessment Task 2, one student from each group should download all material from the wiki and compile these into the one single document to be uploaded via the A2 Turnitin portal for grading. There is no need for more than one student to upload as this will result in 100% match in the originality score.
The maximum word length for this assignment is 3,000 words excluding words used in any charts, templates, forms or diagrams that the project team have used to apply the knowledge areas. If the project team opt to use words to explain how the team have applied a knowledge area you should limit them to one page per knowledge area.
A soft copy of many useful forms will be made available to you on MySCU that project teams can modify and use for the assignment. However as a project team you can and should design your own forms or use standard forms that are used by an organisation and adapt these to suit your project. The soft copy is provided for the benefit of those students who are not adept at designing forms using a computer. Hand drawn forms can be used as well but they must be neatly drawn.
You are also required to provide a list of references listing all the sources you have referred to in preparing this assignment.
The format of this assessment task will be:
- Cover Sheet - with group name, all student names and numbers, title of project, date submitted, word count
- Table of contents
- Introduction
1. WBS
2. RACI Chart
3. Schedule 1 - Gantt
4. Schedule 2 - AoN
5. Resource overloads
6. Budget
7. Progress Reporting (Timelines)
8. Progress Reporting (EVM)
9. Risk Management
10. Change Management
11. Stakeholder identification & communication
12. Project Closure
Reference list (Harvard referencing style is required). Please note that because there is such an emphasis on the textbook, all in-text references MUST include the page numbers.
Assessment: Reflective essay
My Reflection
A critical evaluation of your experience undertaking a project, with reference to theory.
Introduction
Engaging in critical evaluation
This critical evaluation essay requires you to review your experience of undertaking a project - Assessment Task Two. It requires you to critically analyse your experience undertaking Assessment Task Two in light of the theory we have discussed this session. You are required to critically evaluate how you and your team members did - or did not
- utilise the project management tools that you have discovered this session.
Task
Critically discuss how your experience in Assessment Task Two aligned (or not) with project management principles. Analyse your experience against at least three knowledge areas. You may choose to use positive or negative experiences, although students tend to learn more from reflecting on negative experiences in a reflective essay. You will be expected to:
- Introduce the essay
- BRIEFLY describe the situation/s you are going to discuss
- Link the experience to the theory we have discussed this session
- Provide insight into how you engaged in, or contributed to, the situation
- Provide insight, in light of what you have experienced and learned, of what you would do differently the next time you undertake a project
- Conclude the essay
You must refer to the literature and use at least three different textbook or academic quality references.