School of Project Management
BUSM4613 Project Management Techniques
Assessment 1: Project plan, Stage One
| Assessment Type: | Project plan, individual Sunday of Week 3, 23:59 Melbourne time 20% | Word limit: | N/A |
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Overview
The aim of this assessment is to give you an opportunity to produce a project plan using different project management techniques.
Learning Outcomes
After completion of this assessment you should be able to:
CLO 1 Select and apply appropriate project management techniques to manage project duration and cost
Assessment details
Brief
Project planning is one of the most important skills for project managers. As project managers, you will be asked to plan your project, execute it according to the plan, and monitor its progress during the implementation phase.
In this assessment task, you will be asked to come up with a project of your own. This project can be chosen from any industry in which you have an interest. The project should at least consist of 20 to 30 activities. Then you apply different planning techniques on this project. This project is part of your learning process in applying the planning techniques. Therefore, you are not allowed to use planning or scheduling software such as MS Project.
The task is undertaken and delivered in two stages.
Stage One:
In this stage you are asked to start working on your project plan. Your report should include a complete project scope including introduction to the project, deliverables, exclusions, Work Breakdown Structure, and activities. The activity definitions include:
- WBS level and activity ID
- Name
- Description
- Duration
- Predecessor
- Dependencies
- Lag or lead
- Cost
These resources would provide extra help for you to undertake stage one.
- Chapter 4 in ‘Project management; the managerial processes’ by Larson and Gray.
- PowerPoint of chapter 4 in ‘project management; the managerial processes’ by Larson and Gray
- ‘Top tips for developing a work breakdown structure (WBS)’,
Note:
In both stages your report needs to be professionally prepared and include following sections:
- Title page
- Executive summary
- Introduction 2
Referencing guidelines
You must acknowledge all the courses of information you have used in your assessments.
Refer to the RMIT Easy Cite referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library referencing page for more tools such as EndNote, referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing.
Use RMIT Harvard referencing style for this assessment.
Submission format
Upload as one single file via the Assignments submission page within Canvas.
Paper size: A4 is the generic paper size. Use other sizes if your graphs and tables do not fit into A4 size.
Main text of paper: Single spacing, justified Paragraphs: Single space between paragraphs Left margin: 30 mm
All other margins: 25 mm
Academic integrity and plagiarism
Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.
You should take extreme care that you have:
Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted (i.e. directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate referencing methods,
Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary. This includes material taken from Internet sites.
If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.
RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct. Plagiarism covers a variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:
Failure to properly document a source
Copyright material from the internet or databases Collusion between students.
For further information on our policies and procedures, please refer to the University website.
Assessment declaration
When you submit work electronically, you agree to the Assessment declaration.
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