Advise the management team on a post-disaster reconstruction project to rebuild a metropolitan city. Provide a critical analysis of Stakeholder Analysis, Planning and Risk Management as important project management factors that contribute to the successful delivery of this project.

Assignment Task and Word Count:

You have been asked to advise the management team on a post-disaster reconstruction project to rebuild a metropolitan city. Provide a critical analysis of Stakeholder Analysis, Planning and Risk Management as important project management factors that contribute to the successful delivery of this project.

Focus on these areas, in a detailed analysis of the specified topics. Your analysis should be performed from the perspective of a project management professional. Give examples from practice to illustrate your account.

This is an individual piece of work of a maximum 3000 words (excluding the reference list). Note that excess will be ignored

Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed:

Apply knowledge of the environmental and organisational context to project management.

Evaluate and critically debate alternative approaches to delivering project outcomes.

Early Career/ World Class Professional Skills (PLOs) being assessed or developed/assessed:

This assignment will help further develop information gathering capabilities, critical analysis and thinking skills and practical decision making as well as enhancing written communication skills, which are essential for employability and lifelong learning.

The appropriate Programme Learning Outcomes are –

PLO1. Identify and apply information critically in relation to context (developed)

PLO2. Demonstrate communication skills at the appropriate level and using appropriate media (developed)

PLO3. Identify and interrogate issues of ethics, responsibility and sustainability (developed)

PLO4. Demonstrate critical professional and commercial/corporate awareness in your discipline (developed)

Assignment Details and Instructions:

You are required to investigate several important factors in this assignment. You need to produce a literature review of the selected areas, giving a critique of each one. The main criteria for the assignment are covered below.

Analyse Project Management Success Factors

You need to provide a critical analysis of the selected important success factors required for the specified project. You should use examples from practice and produce a literature review, summarising the important academic literature sources, in respect of each factor. Understanding of these factors should, therefore, be demonstrated.

You are thus required to give evidence of appropriate reading (either practitioner and academic) to support your points in respect of the project factors. This work should comprise a critical analysis of the key issues, namely a thorough investigation of the strengths, weaknesses and alternatives in respect of the project success factors.

Knowledge of Project Management

The assignment should demonstrate knowledge of the Project Management discipline. A clear understanding of the subject should be shown. Examples from practice should be used to illustrate your knowledge of this area.

Quality of Analysis

The quality of your analysis will be considered. This should comprise a critical use of the literature, to underpin and ground evidence, data, models and theory. You will also reflect on the strengths, weaknesses and alternatives in respect of the project success factors.

Presentation

The assignment should be presented in a well-structured essay, with appropriate topics chosen, identifying key themes and sub-themes and be well-scoped. A clear, coherent assignment with appropriate referencing should be produced.

Notes

This comprises an individual piece of work of a maximum 3000 words (excluding the reference list). Note that excess will be ignored.

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Further Assignment Guidance:

There are diverse arguments that are of potential relevance to this essay question. You are invited to make an assessment of the question that is supported by evidence.

Some of the other challenges of this assignment are the abilities to demonstrate that:

You have engaged with a sufficient and varied range of research sources (at least ten different sources) to improve the potential quality of your work
You have correctly interpreted and evaluated such diverse sources
You can structure your work appropriately and you write in a coherent manner
You have been selective in the sources you eventually chose, with reference to them and with some justification as to why they are perceived to be significant
You can avoid the excessive use of descriptive text in order to allow sufficient space for more analytical work.

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