Assessment Instructions
1. Purpose and aims
This assignment aims at group learning and comprehension, to realise if students understand how to critically analyse challenges that a project leader may meet while running a project. More importantly, students would discuss how the leader may tackle these challenges and what key points they would recommend for similar incidents in future. This assessment helps student understand how to solve project leadership issues in the form of a working group.
Topic
In your group, choose ONE of these projects for your group analysis and presentation. Please handout your chosen topic and your team names to your facilitator using this form
Space X and Tesla Electric Car
Elon Musk is a famed project entrepreneur who takes a hands-on approach to leading his breakthrough projects. Two of his highest risk projects are now in full production mode: The Tesla electric car and the Space X reusable rocket system.
Description of assessment
The Senior Leadership of your organisation is interested in embarking on a similar project, and has asked you to identify specific challenges and possible recommendations before starting.
1. What were the key leadership challenges for this project?
2. How did the project leaders tackle these challenges during different phases of the project's lifecycle?
3. Based on your analysis of the effectiveness of these actions, what recommendations do you have for future projects with similar challenges?
4. More instructions for this assignment
Make sure you target your presentation to an appropriately senior leadership group. Prepare your presentation as a narrated PowerPoint (PPT) presentation, with roughly 5 minutes per student (to a maximum of 25 minutes for the whole presentation). Submit both the video file of your presentation, plus a Word document of your script.
If your group has 2 or 3 members, your presentation would last 15-20 minutes
If you have 4 members, your presentation would last 20-25 minutes.
2-4 references are necessary for this assessment.
list resources in alphabetical order using the APA 6 Referencing Style.