Assignment Task and word count
Create and describe a plan for delivering a major international project, using adaptive or hybrid project management methods. Critically analyse the impact of COVID crisis and safety parameters on the implementation of this project. Provide recommendations for the project manager to address the issues. Use examples from practice to support your work.
This is an individual piece of work of a maximum 3500 words (excluding the reference list). Note that excess will be ignored
Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed:
- Evaluate and critically reflect on executing, monitoring and control techniques for projects.
- Critically assess the environmental factors, including political issues, for complex projects.
Assignment Details and Instructions:
You are required to select the main elements of international projects, delivered using Agile or Hybrid methods, to be investigated by this assignment. You need to produce a literature review of the selected areas, giving a critique of each selected one. The main criteria for the assignment are covered below.
Describe and Analyse a plan for delivering an International Project in Situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
You need to formulate and describe a plan for delivering a major international project, using the techniques of Agile or Hybrid Project Management. You should then provide a critical analysis of the main issues that may affect the project implementation in situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic. You should use examples from practice and produce a literature review, summarising the important academic literature sources, in respect of each element. You must also provide recommendations to address the identified issues and thus assist the project manager in delivering a successful project responding to the business impacts of COVID-19.
You are, thus, required to give evidence of appropriate reading (either practitioner or academic) to support your points in respect of the main elements of projects delivered using Agile or Hybrid methods. This work should comprise a critical analysis of the key issues, namely a thorough investigation of the strengths, weaknesses and alternatives in respect of the main elements of such projects.
Quality of Analysis
The quality of your analysis will be considered. This should comprise a critical use of the literature, to underpin and ground evidence, data, models, and theory. You will also reflect on the strengths, weaknesses, and alternatives in respect of the project factors.
Presentation
The assignment should be presented in a well-structured essay, with appropriate topics chosen, identifying key themes and sub-themes and be well-scoped. A clear, coherent assignment with appropriate referencing should be produced.
Recommended Reading:
Meredith, J.R., Mantel, S.J. and Shafer, S.M. (2016), Project Management: A Managerial
Approach, (9/e), John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Nicholas, J. M. and Steyn, H. (2017) Project management for engineering, business and
technology. Fifth edn. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.
Wysocki, R. K. (2019) Effective project management : traditional, agile, extreme. 8th edn.
Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Highsmith, J.A. (2010), Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, (2/e), AddisonWesley, London.
Maylor, H. (2010), Project management, FT Prentice Hall, Harlow, England
Additional Reading:
Yang, S. S. and Chong, Z. (2021) “Smart City Projects against Covid-19: Quantitative Evidence
from China,” Sustainable Cities and Society, 70. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.102897.
Cadle, J. and Yeates, D. (2007), Project Management for Information Systems (3/e), FT Prentice
Hall, Harlow, England.
Cleland, D.I. and Ireland, L.R. (2007), Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation
(5/e), McGraw-Hill, USA.
Gardiner, P.D. (2005), Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach, Palgrave Macmillan,
Basingstoke.
Project Management Institute (2017) A guide to the project management body of knowledge
(PMBOK guide). Sixth edn. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute (PMBOK guide).
Bible, M. J. and Bivins, S. S. (2019) Project interface management: reducing risk on major
projects. Chicago: J. Ross Publishing.
Pinto, J. K. (2020) Project management: achieving competitive advantage. Fifth edition, Global
edn. Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
Lientz, B. and Rea, K.P. (2002), Project Management for the 21st Century, London Academic
Press, San Diego.
Journals:
European Journal of Information Systems
Harvard Business Review
International Journal of Project Management
Journal of Information Technology
Websites:
Association for Project Management (APM) www.apm.org.uk
Project Management Institute (PMI): www.pmi.org
Further Assignment Guidance:
There are diverse arguments that are of potential relevance to this essay question. You are
invited to make an assessment of the question that is supported by evidence.
Some of the other challenges of this assignment are the abilities to demonstrate that:
- You have engaged with a sufficient and varied range of research sources (at least six
different sources) to improve the potential quality of your work
- You have correctly interpreted and evaluated such diverse sources
- You can structure your work appropriately and you write in a coherent manner
- You have been selective in the sources you eventually chose, with reference to them and
with some justification as to why they are perceived to be significant
- You can avoid the excessive use of descriptive text in order to allow sufficient space for
more analytical work.
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