Managing Project Success: Lifecycle Optimisation

PROJECT CASE STUDY CHOICE A:

Vaccination hub

McKie (2023) states that the Covid-19 vaccine campaign has been moved forward because of the emergence of a new Covid variant. And there are fears that new variant could get worst in the autumn. Accordingly, the management of your organisation has tasked you with writing a project management report on how to set up a vaccination centre. The purpose of establishing the hub is to help protect people from serious illness caused by COVID-19 especially the vulnerable. You are responsible for choosing the location, procuring the equipment, and to set up the centre ready for the autumn. You have 6 months from the beginning to the end of the project.

Initial Reading:

McKie, R. (2023) As a new variant emerges, is Covid coming back to the UK?

PROJECT CASE STUDY CHOICE B:

Film festival

Your team is employed by Metropolis City Council to develop a series of film events promoting environmental sustainability to be held across the City in the summer of 2024. Your team must develop a project plan, which sets out how the team intends to manage the festival to be presented to the Culture and Leisure Committee. The team will be responsible for identifying a theme for the festival; planning appropriate events; managing relationships with stakeholders; managing health and safety; ensuring licenses are in place and developing media and publicity for events. The goal is to ensure events are delivered on time, on budget and at an appropriate quality. The arts festival must run between May and September 2024. Your initial budget is £70,000. Get Homework Help Now!

This assignment is designed to assess the following learning outcomes:
Critically assess and advise on the role of project management to manage successful projects.
Critically evaluate, adapt and apply a range of tools to manage proposal design and delivery for successful project implementation.
Use advanced scholarship to critically appraise and determine the resources required at various stages of a project life cycle to ensure successful project delivery.
Identify the relevant professional body of project management knowledge for application in a professional context.
Apply and demonstrate the skills of project management tool design and implementation for effective communications.

Assessment Details

How to approach the task

Each student is required to submit an individual report of 4500 words (NOT including the project management diagrams - see below). The work will be assessed according to the marking matrix below* and in accordance with the Faculty of Business and Law Grade Descriptors on below.

Students must ensure that they have covered all learning outcomes for the module in their work.

What to put in the report
The most important focus of the report is your choice of FOUR of the project management tools below:

PESTLE analysis
Work Breakdown Structure
Gantt chart
Risk Analysis and Mitigation
(RACI) Matrix - Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted and Informed (RACI)
Stakeholder Management Strategy
Project control and decision making
When you write your report you are expected to:
Describe, critically evaluate and discuss the application of each of the four tools you have chosen to the case scenario. This means you must introduce and describe each tool; explain how the tool is applied to the chosen case study in practice: and critically evaluate each of your chosen tools by assessing the strengths and weaknesses. You are expected to use references to do this.

Draft a diagram for each of the four tools. By diagram we mean a table, register, Gantt Chart, RACI Matrix etc. This will be a pictorial representation of each tool drafted by you, pasted alongside the tool. You are not allowed to only cut and paste images taken from the internet (e.g Google images). However, you may use an image on the Net as a basis for your own work and amend it, but you must cite the source and then put ‘amended by author'.

Word count
On this module there is a tolerance on the 4500-word count of +/- 10%.

What's included in the word count?
all the main substantive content
headings/sub-headings
text tables
in-text citations
direct quotations
footnotes
What's excluded from the word count?
**Your drafted diagrams of the four project management tools**
title pages
contents lists
reference lists
appendices (list all the four tools you created in you report, such as tables and figures)