Bucks Students’ Union Music Festival Case Study

Project Management Methodology Comparison and Analysis

Recently graduated, you have secured a Sabbatical Officer’s post with a student union called Bucks Students’ Union, a students’ representation organisation run by students for students to ensure students view on a wide range of topics and issue is expressed. And you have been assigned to assist the team which

will project manage the hosting of a new musical festival at the local Town Hall this early autumn to celebrate the achievements of her Alumni.

Below is Table A, consisting of all the major tasks, dependencies and timescales required for each task.

You are to assume that it is 15 th of Sep 2018, the Monday of the first week of the project. While the project team is being formed, the Project Manager asks you to prepare a 1500 (+/-10%) word report to be with him on 30th April 2020 and which he can use to brief Bucks Students’ Union board and other senior managers of the University.

The title of the report is ‘Bucks Students’ Union Music Festival case study’

1) Compare and critically analyse any THREE project management methodologies/bodies of knowledge. Your analysis should consider the advantages and disadvantages of using these project management methodologies/bodies of knowledge in contemporary global projects.

Task 2

2) Develop a network diagram manually, AS TAUGHT (activities on arrows) clearly showing the relationship between all the activities listed above, the dependencies, the likely duration for each activity, the likely completion date (expected total project time). Calculate the earliest starting time, the latest starting time (EST,LST) and the earliest finishing time and latest finishing time (EFT, LFT) for each activity including an outline description of the critical path, highlighting the critical activities and the shortest possible time in days in which the project can be completed as scoped above (give reasons for your choice).

Task 3

3) Undertake a stakeholder analysis for this project. This should clearly identify internal and external stakeholder, group stakeholders according to their interest and power i.e. stakeholder management matrix, communication strategies, Using the activity list above, develop a clearly numbered Work

Breakdown Structure (WBS) for this music festival

Task 4

You are required to prepare a Risk Analysis for FIVE different risks that could affect your project. Analyse the risks involved and develop strategies for dealing

with them. Present your Risk Analysis and Risk Management strategies/mitigations in the form of a table, AS TAUGHT, accompanied by a commentary of not more than 500 words.

Analyse and critically evaluate project roles, principles, themes and processes using an appropriate industry standard methodology

Plan project activities using networks and an appropriate project management software;

Evaluate and explain the major factors and performance requirements of project management;

This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant submission point in the Submit your work area in your LSST Connect module shell.

You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.

Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided

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Work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be accepted as a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the

actual mark recorded but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will

not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.

Feedback and marks for this assignment will be available by 3 weeks after the submission deadline.