B9MG131 Project Management Practices Assessment Brief 2025 | DBS

CA1 Group & Individual Assignment (weight 75% of module mark)

For this consultancy exercise (assignment), you must demonstrate an understanding of specific project and quality management concepts, tools, and techniques. Additionally, you must be able to convince your client of any additional work that your team considers needed, both technical and managerial. 

For this assignment, you will form project teams of between 6 and 7 members per team. Assume that this is an Invitation to Tender and that you are a team of project consultants. 

1)Your group's task is to formulate all-inclusive offer documentation to include: (group word count 3,000 +/- 10%) 

a)Detailed answers to each exercise (section 3 of the attached Best Keys case study). Each exercise answer must be identifiable in your report. Use the same numbering sequence as the exercise questions. 

b)Compile supporting information and research to correlate with your overall findings from the individual exercise to draw conclusions and make recommendations as required by section 4.0, "Lasting Improvements", of the attached Best Keys case study.

c) Your tender must be clear to someone not an expert in quality engineering, but it should contain enough technical detail to support your conclusions, recommendations, etc. They will include, from both a technical and managerial perspective, informing the client what you have done, what you have learned, and what you recommend. Short-, medium- and long-term recommendations must be made and include proposals for a quality programme. 

d)Your tender should be professionally presented and as inclusive as necessary for the work. At a basic level, it should include: 

1. The basis of your knowledge to undertake this work. 
2. Brief bio profiles of your team. 
3. Other processes (es) you have identified for improvement or further study. 
4. Duration of the work. 
5. Detailed Costs. 

(Weight up to 40% of available marks depending on individual contribution to overall assignment) 

Each member of the group must select a different topic from above. No two members of the same group should choose the same topic. These individual elements must be combined and uploaded onto Moodle as a single document. Each element must include the author's identification and its referencing section. 

This report should comprise 1,500 words for each member of the group. The submitted report must be within 10% +/- of this word count. The word count does not include the Title Page, Appendices, Reference List and words in tables and diagrams. (Weight up to 40% of available marks depending on individual contribution to overall assignment) 

CA2 Individual Assignment (weight 25% of module mark) 

4)An in-class Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) assessment is scheduled for August 5th 2025

Assignment Guidelines and Instructions 

• The presentation submitted on Moodle must be used for the in-class presentation, and no additions or changes should be made to it.
• You may find the following text useful during this assignment: The Memory Jogger II, A Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement & Effective Planning. ISBN:1879364441, ISBN-13:9781879364448
• Only one member of each group needs to upload this completed assignment.
• Only original and credible research and material constructed by you should be included in this assignment. Material downloaded from the internet may be considered spurious and incur a heavy penalty. At least 75% of your research sources must have been published in or after 2016 and must be sourced through the Dublin Business School Library. Other published textbooks, articles, journals, papers, etc., may be employed if their source is academically credible and authoritative.
• All research sourced through Dublin Business School must be listed and dated in a separate section of your bibliography.
• Your assignment must be developed around a strong theoretical framework based on a critical review of appropriate literature sources, demonstrating evidence of comprehensive research into the subject matter. You should draw on concepts and theories discussed in project management literature sources to support your analysis and justify your critical factors and recommendations. You are expected to provide insight and argument, and not simply describe the subject matter.

Assignment Grading 

• To achieve a top grade of ≥70%, your assignment must be well structured and logically developed, with concise and comprehensive identification of the issues supported with evidence of extensive background reading. It will express original, reasoned arguments and demonstrate critical thinking based on clear insight, knowledge, and understanding by reviewing and critiquing a wide range of appropriate research material.
• A very good assignment scoring between 60-69% will respond directly to the question with a clear and convincing argument supported with evidence of substantial background reading. It will demonstrate an awareness of the issues involved in the question and blend conceptual awareness with reference to research sources and appropriate examples. It will be coherently organised and contain discussion and analysis rather than description or narration.
• A poorly developed assignment, scoring less than 50%, could show some awareness of the relevant material and subject matter, but does not demonstrate a sufficient depth of understanding and/or is limited in the extent to which assumptions, theories and beliefs are challenged.