Project Management Challenges: Camden Sickle Cell Concert Essay

I wanted to thank you for taking on this contract at short notice, but to express my confidence in your ability to provide the service sustainable ways of raising fund over the coming months. Last year the Camden sickle cell and thalassaemia unit found a large proportion of our society/community are unaware of the services we run. We are currently in the process of appointing a group of consultants to move quickly to organise musical concert to create awareness with the under listed activity list. Using these activity please kindly provide us with a 1500 words document detailing project management knowledge areas that should be considered in this event.

You are to assume that it is 28th of September 2020, 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 11 th November 2020 and which he can present to Camden Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service Group – board and other senior managers of the University. The project has only 101days available to be completed which means all tasks on the activity list below must be completed within the 101days. (However, for extra consultancy fee of £5000 you could also advise Camden Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service Group – the alternative approach to shorten the project duration and if this is the case, should Camden Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service Group want to finish this project ealier than expected how soon can this be done beside finishing within 101days? Support with PERT analysis and an additional network diagram)

The title of the report is ‘Camden Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service Group – Project Brief’

Task

1) 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 2

2) 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

Task 2: Undertake a stakeholder analysis for this project

Task 3

Using the activity list above, develop a clearly numbered Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) alongside an organizational structure for this music event

Task 4

You are required to prepare a Risk Analysis for 20 different risks that could affect your project. Analyse the risks involved and develop strategies for dealing with them in detail. Present your Risk Analysis and Risk Management strategies/mitigations in the form of a table, AS TAUGHT in class.

Task 5

You are required to determine what the quality expectation, acceptance criteria, quality specification, and what measures would be put in place to control the event. In other words you write up in this section must cover these heading.

Task 6

Provide a critical analysis of what methodology would be appropriate for this project and why? Support just justification with examples of where this methodology has been previously used as well as the benefits of using this methodology in your project.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1 Evaluate and explain the major factors and performance requirements of project management.

LO 2 Plan projects using appropriate project management software

LO 3 Analyse and critically evaluate projects using an appropriate industry standard methodology.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions.

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