Your task: You are required to tender for the contract to project manage the new Sydney Cruise Terminal. Based on the attached case study, you are to prepare a 10-minute video in which you must present to the key stakeholders in the project.
MBA641 Strategic Project Management Assignment-Kaplan Business School Australia.
Assessment Description:
The purpose of this assessment is to foster students’ ability to evaluate and determine project viability, including the analysis required in the selection process. This will also form a part of students’ ability to create project portfolios that meet an organisation’s strategic goals and requirements as well as analyse project life cycles and the processes involved in project development. Students will also demonstrate the criteria required to evaluate the success of projects based on an organisation’s goals, strategy and standards.
Assessment Instructions:
Using the Project Strategy Framework, individually, you are to present a proposal for managing the project to build the new Sydney Cruise Terminal, as if you were delivering a tender to stakeholders. You will also produce a 500-word supporting document with the relevant information and salient points of your presentation for stakeholders’ reference.
In recording your video, you will address the criteria of the Project Strategy Framework of why what and how ensuring you provide sufficient information to stakeholders regarding how your proposal will meet the current business needs and strategy as outlined in the case study.
Your proposal should be linked to the case study and identify each of the key elements of the strategic framework including the business background, objective and concept, the definition of your project as well as its competitive advantage or value as well as the success and failure criteria. You will also be expected to present a project definition and strategic focus.
MBA641 Strategic Project Management Assignment-Kaplan Business School Australia.
Your video should clearly demonstrate how your team propose to deliver these results, clearly linked to the case study criteria of what is expected by stakeholders.
You will also be required to produce a 500-word supporting document, with the key points of your presentation, as if this was to be distributed to stakeholders. You can use any format you feel is appropriate for this document to convey a summary of the information you have covered, but this must contain the information that would be relevant for its intended audience.
You are required to use at least 10 sources of information and use Kaplan Harvard Referencing Style. Wikipedia and other ‘popular’ sites are not to be used. These may include government publications, industry reports, and journal articles.
Assignment Submission:
Your video must be submitted via MyKBS well in advance of the deadline to avoid any possible technical difficulties. For those students who have limited experience in recording a webinar, it is recommended to read video FAQs document that is available to you under the assessments tab in MyKBS.
Your supplementary documentation must be submitted as one ‘Word’ document to avoid any technical issues that may occur from incorrect file format upload. Uploaded files with a virus will not be considered as a legitimate submission. Turnitin will notify you if there is an issue with the submitted file. In this case, you must contact your workshop facilitator via email and provide a brief description of the issue and a screenshot of the Turnitin error message. You are also encouraged to submit your work well in advance of the deadline to avoid any possible delay with the Turnitin similarity report or any other technical difficulties.
Late assignment submission penalties :
Penalties will be imposed on late assignment submissions in accordance with Kaplan Business School “late assignment submission penalties” Policy.
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MBA641 Strategic Project Management Assignment-Kaplan Business School Australia.
Time/Word Limits for Video/Written Assessments
Submissions that exceed the word limit by more than 10% will cease to be marked from the point at which that limit is exceeded.
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