BSS049-6 Project Management Practice Assignment 2 – Project Management Portfolio

BSS049-6 Assignment 2: 

This assessment accounts for 60% of the total grade.

For this assignment, you are required to work in groups. Your group of 3-5 students will be decided by your unit tutor during your sessions. You will be required to produce a project management plan for a live project. 

The Project Plan will include the use of Project Management tools and techniques studied and discussed in class.

This assignment is based on a real-life project. You have been scheduled for meetings with two different business owners including “MS Therapy Centre” and “Gutbare”, choose your project from one of the businesses and proceed with the following tasks.

The information about the date and the details of the meeting is sent to you by BREO announcement!

The clients will brief you on the details of the project.

Important Notes for this assignment: 

• Time allocated from initiation to completion should be 3 months (+/- 3 weeks)
• The total Budget allocated from initiation to completion should be £5,000 (+/- £500).
• You must use the templates provided in the Project Templates toolkit for your collaborative work and individual reports. Please do not download other templates for use.
• You must include copies of collaborative files AND a copy of your group presentation with your report Appendix.

This project plan assignment contains two parts, Part A and B:

BSS049-6 Part A – Group presentation

This part is to ensure you (working in a group of 3 to 5) can apply and reflect on the project management knowledge and skills learned. 

• A group presentation of the project plan incorporating the elements detailed below (presented in PowerPoint) will take place on the date confirmed by the tutors.
• Each team is required to submit a copy of their presentation slides before the presentation via BREO using the Assignment 2- presentation slides submission link under the Assessments page. Only one member of your team is required to submit the presentation on behalf of each team. 

Specifications 

Length of presentation: 10 minutes + 5 minutes for questions and answer

Submission: Copy of PowerPoint slides (plus appendices) submitted via BREO using the Assignment 2- presentation slides submission link under the Assessments page.

The presentation slides MUST include:

1. Feasibility and Business Case/Benefits Analysis: (Needs to be detailed and cover points such as Reasons, Expected Benefits, Stakeholders, Key milestones, Costs, Net Benefits, Risks, and Constraints) 

2. Stakeholder Analysis 

List and analyze the stakeholders:

•  Analysis should include: Identification of how the stakeholder could help or hinder the project
• Create a communication plan:

o What needs to be communicated? 

o How it will be communicated (e.g. email or a meeting) 

o When communications will occur (e.g. daily, weekly) 

3. Project Time Management 

This should include the following 4 components: 

3.1 Work Breakdown Structure

• List all the activities throughout the project life cycle including project initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
• Ensure that all the activities are presented in a hierarchical order diagram
• Ensure that all the activities are divided into manageable chunks (8-80 rule)

3.2 Activity List 

• Activities should be the same as those listed in the WBS
• Samples of Completeness of activities to deliver project products
• Each Activity allocated to an individual project team member/s 

These must be realistic, true to nature, and applicable.

3.3 Network Diagram and Critical Path Analysis 

3.4 Gantt Chart 

• Create a detailed Gantt Chart to support the creation of a Network Diagram to include time and resource allocations using suitable tools (Evidence of this MUST be provided)

4. Resource allocation

• List all the resources required for project execution such as cost, labor hours, etc.
•  Allocate resources and budgets to each activity.
•  Please note that the resource allocation should be aligned to the specified budget. 

5. Project Risk analysis (This is predictive)

• Risk Identification – How thorough?
• Risk Assessment – Probability Matrix…. how realistic?
• Risk Responses – How appropriate?
• Risk Register/log Sample(s) provided. 

BSS049-6 Part B – Individual Portfolio report 

You are required to produce an individual report of 3,500 (+/- 10%) words covering the delivery of a project for the given/chosen project to include all of the below (which you will have received feedback on during your presentation as detailed above):

• Business case
• Scope statement
• Time management (Work Breakdown Structure; Activity List; Gantt Chart; Network Diagram and Critical Path Analysis)
• Risk management plan including a risk Log and probability/impact matrix
• Stakeholder analysis
• A quality plan includes quality assurance, quality control, and quality monitoring.

Reflective report: Critical discussion and a reflection on the Lessons Learnt from the project

•  Reflect on individual learning
•  Reflect on lessons learned from the project
•  Reflect on peer participation in group work 
• Overall considerations of what you have learned about working in a group including challenges and advantages. 
• Complete the peer evaluation form for each of your team members (If you are working in a group of 4, you need to fill this form out for your three team members) (The peer evaluation form is available on BREO>>> Assessment folder>>> Assignment brief folder>>>Peer Group Work Evaluation- Assignment 2.docx)

Unit learning outcomes of BSS049-6:

1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding

MSc Project Management

Demonstrate a depth of knowledge, systematic understanding, and critical evaluation of project management theories, methodologies, tools, and techniques in different contexts.

2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities

Apply and synthesize project management knowledge and understanding, to work in a team, to plan, communicate, implement, control, and evaluate a real project for a client, including management of stakeholders, risks, and issues that arise to present a successful client project.