Project Management, Philosophies & Tools: Assessment Requirements and Submission Guidelines

Project Management, Philosophies & Tools is assessed by individual in-course work worth 100%. You are required to submit the work appropriate to the assessment requirements outlined below to the submission link in the Assessments folder on Blackboard Ultra by the due date provided on the cover of this document. The expected overall word count for your assessment This does not include the table of contents and reference list. The work will be supported by graphical representation of concepts and tools.

You can find the key learning outcomes of the module at the end of this document.

ICA requirements

Your in-course assessment for this module consists of three parts:

Part 1: project management scenario

This part of the in-course assessment is intended to address Learning Outcomes[1] 1, 2. For this part of the assessment, you are required to critically scope and author a project management case scenario which should contain sufficient appropriate detail for analysis and determination of a project management strategy, plan and toolset. This scenario could be fictitious or based on a real business need. Start with describing the business case and value(s) of the project, then add both qualitative and quantitative (e.g. staff number) details to explain the scenario in more depth. The data might be used in the formulation of your plan or toolset.

Part 2: project management strategy & plan

This part of the in-course assessment is intended to address Learning Outcomes1 1, 2, 5, 6, 7.  In this part of the assessment you will review, develop and defend a case for adopting a specific project management life cycle (PMLC) and develop a suitable project management plan. The aim is to demonstrate knowledge of alternative philosophies and project planning artefacts, critically evaluating which broad methodological approach (and toolset) would fit your described project scenario. It is therefore expected that you will analyse your scenario, compare and contrast project management approaches, then select the most appropriate ones for your scenario and justify your choices. It is expected that you will use the Agile suitability matrix to help inform your decisions and that you will contextualise each project management knowledge areas (see PMBok).

Part 3: toolset

In this part of the submission you are required to employ a suitable toolset portfolio, demonstrating how the tools advocated would / could be applied to the given project management scenario. It is anticipated that you will clearly link each tool to the appropriate PMBok knowledge areas. You may use existing live case data, plausible invented data, or an exemplar, illustrative presentation of critical tools in your toolset.

Finally, the presentation and construction of the documentation (Part 1, 2 and 3) is important and it is expected that you will include a table of contents, numbered headings and subheadings as well as a full list of references mirroring your in-text references or citations.