Assignments Project Management (Fictive refurbishment of school) Gantt charts, PID, PRINCE2 METHOD

Summative (Main) Assignment: This assignment is based on a fictitious case study (REFURBISHMENT OF 17 CLASSROOMS AND LABORATORIES OF AN UNIVERSITY IN LONDON) that presents students with a business project scenario. You must take the role of Project Manager and are required to analyse the case study, research the best approach to managing it and develop the following 4 items of project planning documentation, to be submitted as a single, individual report: 1. Sample Project Initiation Document (PID) including budgetary information, timescales, objectives, approach, key staff and stakeholder analysis (approx. 750 words) 2. Gantt chart with at least 20 items in the work breakdown structure (WBS). The Gantt chart should include all necessary core elements (tasks, dependencies, milestones, summary tasks) and a clear indication of the critical path. Any tool that allows you to present this information appropriately may be employed. All diagrams should be embedded into your report as images; 3. Risk register containing at least 10 fully documented risks, including owner, mitigation and contingency actions, pre-and post- action weighting and scores; 4. Short report to the Project Sponsor, the Director of Operations. Your report should contain both of the following: a. An explanation of the importance of quality risk management plans and the potential impact on the project were rigorous risk management processes to be ignored; b. An analysis and critique of the potential relevance of PRINCE2 as a methodology for this project (including strengths and weaknesses) and a recommendation as to whether or not this should be used. The Sponsor has said that they have had some negative past experience of PRINCE2 projects. There is no right or wrong answer for this, hence marks will be given on the basis of how well you have explained and justified your decision (approx. 1,000 words). Note: In all cases reference must be made to established project management theory. As this is a fictitious project case you are free to make assumptions where necessary and these should be clearly stated in your submission. Also note that you are not expected to have any specific technical knowledge of computing architecture, building refurbishment or facilities management, hence any reasonable assumptions may be made (must be stated clearly)