7014ENG: Project Management Practices

Task Description: This individually completed assignment requires students to complete a literature review on advances in project management practices. Students will be provided a detailed brief and template for this task in the Week 2 Lecture. As a guide, the literature review should be approximately 4,000 words. Criteria & Marking:

1. This assignment will be assessed utilising a holistic marking scheme

2. The assignments will be returned within 2 weeks of submission

3. Resubmission of an assessment item is not allowed. Assignment Details: Before starting this assignment, please read the following Assessment Marking Criteria. Each assignment must be presented in typical report format. Students must present supporting material from at LEAST Ten (10) relevant references (with a citation format APA 6th) which are academic articles published in journal(s) with an SCI Impact Factor (for example, Project Management Institute Journal, Journal of Automation in Construction, etc.). Your literature review is in reality a type of research, thus it should conform to the anatomy of a typical scholarly article consisting the following components:

• Title

• Introduction

• Body

• Conclusion

• References Your submission will be checked for duplication of other authored material. 2 Topics: Students to select one of the following topics: 1. Scope, Risk and Cost management for construction/engineering/IT projects: Literature Review 2. Quality, Schedule and Risk management for construction/engineering/IT project: Literature Review 3. Stakeholder, Resources and Communication management for construction/engineering/IT projects: Literature Review