Project Management for a Multimillion-Pound Wind Farm Offshore

Coursework Tasks

1 Knowledge and Understanding:

Critically and evaluate the complexities of a substantial business project, taking into account the time/cost/quality parameters and break the project down into logical work and cost elements;

2 Knowledge and Understanding:

Critically assess and evaluate the value of advanced techniques and processes at various stages of the project management life-cycle;

3 Intellectual, practical, affective and transferable skills:  Apply selected tools and techniques including computer based

models to track project progress and expenditure against plans and budgets in order to improve the performance of project management on complex and/or problematic business projects, which may include making interventions as necessary for successful troubleshooting and recovery;

4 Intellectual, practical, affective and transferable skills:

Demonstrate a critical awareness of the project management profession and the specific knowledge required by successful practitioners

This coursework assignment takes the form of an integrated piece of coursework involving NINE sequential tasks based on a fictitious project scenario.

Students are required to attempt all nine tasks contained within the scenario. Each task will be marked out of 10, plus a further mark out of 10 will be available for the overall quality  and professionalism of the submitted report document. Maximum mark:

Your final submission should take the form of a high quality business report document. It is suggested that the report should follow the following broad structure:

Main body – perhaps with separate “sections” for each task

You should read the scenario and each assignment task very carefully. Most of the information required to complete each task is provided. However, this is a masters level piece of work and students are expected to undertake their own reading around the topics and to use their own skill and judgement in both the way in which they respond to each task and the conclusions and recommendations that they make in their report. If you are unclear about any aspect of the work you should seek clarification as any competent management professional would do.

The information based upon this project and the invented organisations is purely fictitious and has been fabricated solely for the case study. Any resemblance of organisations, roles, events and persons included is purely coincidental. It addresses the specific project management challenges connected with a multi-million pound project.

‘BritNorsk’ are a joint venture energy company developing an offshore wind farm for the Norwegian Authorities some 30 miles west of Stavanger, Norway. After the Design stage in London, Stavanger will be the logistical and management base for the project management and contractor team.

The project will be led by a Roar Kristensen, a project manager working for BritNorsk, with a team structured as follows:

You will be acting in the role of the Project Support Officer (PSO) - working directly for the project manager. Over the course of the module, you will be required to assist Mr Kristensen  with nine different tasks to complete concerning this new project.

The details of each task will be contained in an email which you will receive every Friday, along with any extra information that you may need to carry out the project management work required. This process will commence from semester Week 2 to Week 10 inclusive.