BUSM4610: Business Project Management

Submit individual report through assignment-3 submission folder of Canvas (specific to your class). You will see your Tutor’s name is available on the folder

Case study: ‘Blue Spider (BS) Project’

The report will be evaluated based on the following outline:

A.Executive summary (brief): Clearly outlines the objective of the project, justification to start the BS project, findings/lesson learned and recommendations.

B.Introduction (brief): It clearly demonstrates project brief, the purpose of the report, key terms/issues you are going to discuss and the report structure.

C.Project Appraisal/Body: (Answer the following questions)                                                                                                                            

Questions:

1.Was the project scope defined clearly at early stage of the project? Identify one major scope creep and discuss the impacts of scope change on project performance/stakeholders

2.Is the decision to start BS project a strategically sound decision? Give reasons for your opinion.

3.Why is early involvement of stakeholders so critical in a project? Who are the key stakeholders in the project and briefly identify two major stakeholder’s power and interests in the project?

4.Was Gary qualified to be a project manager- rationale your answer?

5.Discuss- how did the BS project handle major risks? What might they have done?

6.Should functional employees of the customer and contractor be permitted to communicate with one-another without going through the project office? Justify the selection of type of project organisation form in BS project.

7.Critically reflect on teamwork (of project management team) in your group project (in assignment 2) and compare it with the teamwork (of project management team) in the BS project.

8.Briefly discuss what lessons have you learnt from BS project and from your group project?