Introduction

You have been given a task to organise a prestigious world class event. You may choose either:

· the FIFA 2022 World Cup football tournament to be held in Qatar (https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/qatar2022/)

or

· the 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in Birmingham, UK https://www.birmingham2022.com

You may refer to the recently concluded 2018 World Cup in Russia https://www.fifa.com/worldcup or the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (https://gc2018.com/) as reference sites to organise these games.

Your tasks

This assessment item requires you to work INDIVIDUALLY. As the project manager in charge of delivering such as an important world sporting event, you are required to produce a REPORT to be submitted to the organising committee.

Questions:

1. With regards to the event that you have chosen to organise, identify and elaborate:

a. The processes from PMBOK or Prince2 that you would use to help with the stakeholder management

b. The critical stakeholders for the event

2. In what ways would you have implemented lean project management for this event? (You need to identify and elaborate the areas and opportunities where you can eliminate waste).

3. Identify and elaborate processes from PMBOK, PRINCE2, Organisational Project Management (OPM), Agile Practices and Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC Methodology) that could be used to implement lean project management.

(please refer to the Assessment 1 document available in your Moodle Assessment 1 tab for complete instructions and requirements of this assessment)

Marking Criteria:

Your assignment will be assessed on the extent and quality to which it meets each of the following criteria:

Introduction

Australian Engineering Works Private Limited (AEW) is an original equipment manufacturer specialising in plastic moulding parts for the telecommunication industry. They have been servicing the industry for almost 30 years and their customers include major telecommunication service providers. Due to its reputation, AEW have become a very successful company.

The crack is appearing

However, as this industry is seen as a very lucrative market, many new suppliers have begun to emerge. This is having serious implications for AEW. It is more difficult to win new contracts as their customers are able to explore options with other suppliers. Additionally, the competitors are also providing better pricing than AEW. These factors combined have eroded AEW’s profitability by almost 45%. As more suppliers are flooding the market, many of AEW’s experienced employees have opted to join the new players.

Management response

AEW’s senior management are concerned with the recent developments and are looking at ways to improve and once again become the preferred supplier to their customers. To this effect, AEW has engaged your company to provide some advice on overcoming the above issues. The management team is willing to provide all necessary support to turnaround the situation. They want all issues to be resolved within three (3) months.

Your tasks

This assessment item requires you to work in a GROUP (no more than 3 students). You and your team (including members from AEW) have only three (3) months to correct the situation. As the project manager, you are required to produce a REPORT to be submitted to AEW senior management team.

Questions:

1. Identify the root cause(s) that lead to the problems using appropriate tools and techniques.

2. Develop a risk management plan to ensure the problems and issues are not repeated.

3. In your opinion what leadership style should be adopted to help bring about the necessary changes?

Additional Information:

You must show evidence of using at least seven (7) tools and techniques that you have learned from this unit to address the question (1) above.

(please refer to the Assessment 2 document available in your Moodle Assessment 2 tab for complete instructions and requirements of this assessment)

Marking Criteria:

Your assignment will be assessed on the extent and quality to which it meets each of the following criteria:

You will be required to complete a set of multiple choice quiz questions related to all learning outcomes of this unit.

Purpose

The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help you to identify factors associated with leading lean projects. The secondary purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to enhance your analysis and critical thinking skills.

Notes:

The quiz will be based on the learning from lectures Week 1 - 12

In order for you to complete the quiz, it is necessary for you to complete all learning activities prescribed in the unit.

Important Information:

1. The quiz will ONLY be available during the following time period:

• Start: 0900 hrs Monday, 11 Feb, 2019
• End: 1700 hrs Tuesday, 12 Feb, 2019

2. ONE ATTEMPT ONLY. MUST BE completed latest by 1700 hrs Tuesday, 12 Feb, 2019

3. The quiz is an OPEN BOOK test. You may refer to the unit materials (lectures slides, your own notes etc).

4. Questions will be drawn from a pool of 450 questions. When you attempt the quiz, 40 questions will be selected and displayed in RANDOM ORDER. It is very unlikely that two students will see the same questions.

5. The link for the quiz is now added to your PPMP20009 Moodle assessment tab and will become active on 0900hrs Monday, 11 Feb, 2019. The quiz will terminate at 1700 hrs on Tuesday, 12 Feb, 2019. Please plan to complete the quiz within this timeframe.

6. There will be 40 questions to be answered in 50 minutes. Questions will be:

• Multiple choice
• True / False

Some sample questions are given below to give you an idea of what to expect on the Quiz.

Example 1

Which one of the following is not a PMBoK process group:

• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Measuring and Controlling
• Closing

Example 2

Choose one statement which does not reflect the attribute of a competent Project Manager:

• Good people and technical management skills
• Effective communicator
• Extremely meticulous to the minute detail and a control freak
• Believes in honesty and integrity

Example 3

Determine if the following statement is true or false.

Kerzner has identified barriers to effective project management and these include:

• Cultural barriers
• Status and political barriers
• Project management barriers

            TRUE                 FALSE

Example 4

Determine if the following statement is true or false.

"In order to formulate the Organisational Project Management, aspects that must be considered are Project Management Practices, Business Management Practices, and Organisational Strategy"

           TRUE                   FALSE

7. Preparations: Go through all your lecture slides and tutorial questions. Refer to PMBOK, PRINCE2, OPM books.

Please speak to your lecturer/ tutor if you need any help.

• The percentage of correct answers
• No penalty deduction for wrong answers