Assessment Title

Sub-plans

Task Description

Assignment Overview

This assessment item requires you to consider:-

• schedule management plan,

• project schedule,

• activity resources,

• cost management plan,

• cost baseline,

• funding requirements,

• risk management plan, and

• risk register

…you must then develop the items listed above for a selected case study. There will be templates supplied for each of the items above. The case studies will cover a number of project domains:-

• Engineering and construction domain,

• Telecommunications and IT domain,

• Software development domain,

• Financial and business services domain,

• Welfare domain.

In addition to the templates you may use Microsoft Project and Excel for the development of some of the items in the list above.

Your submissions must meet the minimum requirement outlined in the PMBOK (2013) and conform to the requirements outlined in Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (2009).

You are encouraged to use assignment outputs that you may have developed from previous assignments.

Task

Your task is to consider the overview above and develop and complete the required items using the templates that will be supplied during the course. You will be graded upon how well your submissions have been completed and reflect the case studies.

Purpose

The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help you to develop skills in the contents and compilation of project time, cost, resources, and risk estimates.

The secondary purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to consider the role of project time, cost, resources and risk estimates within a project life cycle.

The assignment will also give you the opportunity to enhance your analysis and written communication skills; particularly in the areas of structured assignment writing, and optionally, Microsoft Project.

Structure

Your submission should be made using the supplied templates. You should complete all of the required parts in as complete manner as you deem appropriate. The instruction boxes in the templates that state they should be deleted must be deleted.

Assessment Criteria

Your assignment will be assessed on the extent and quality to which it meets each of the following criteria.

1. A complete schedule management plan is supplied? (5%)

2. A complete project schedule is supplied? (5%)

3. Complete activity resources records are supplied? (5%)

4. A complete cost management plan is supplied? (5%)

5. A complete cost baseline is supplied? (5%)

6. Completed funding requirements records are supplied? (5%)

7. A complete risk management plan is supplied? (5%)

8. A complete risk register is supplied? (5%)

9. A complete schedule management plan is an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

10. A complete project schedule is an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

11. Complete activity resources records are an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

12. A complete cost management plan is an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

13. A complete cost baseline is an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

14. Completed funding requirements records are an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

15. A complete risk management plan is an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

16. A complete risk register is an accurate reflection of the case study? (5%)

17. Appropriate and well structured, concise and clear expression of project management requirements in response to the assessment task? (10%)

18. Clarity of expression, grammar and spelling? (10%)

Referencing Style

Harvard (author-date)

Submission

Online

To be submitted as Microsoft Word document files and optionally Microsoft Project and Excel files