Project Management Processes Assignment
The journal indicated below describes a national project. Based on the journal, and on your team’s understanding of the project, answer the questions below:
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000332
Journal title: “1976 Montreal Olympics: Case Study of Project Management Failure”
- Was it an internal or external project? Provide a rationale. 5Marks
- Identify at least 10 major stakeholders for the project. 5 Marks
- What were the needs or expectation of each stakeholder? 5 Marks
- Identify and describe at least 5 most important resources used in the project. 5 Marks
- What was the alternative approach for the project (i.e. if the stadium had not been built, what else could have been done to ensure the Olympics still occurred)? 5Marks
- Based on (5) above, was building the stadium at this location and at this time the best approach to have been chosen? Provide rationale using PV, NPV, IRR, B/C. [1 page] 20Marks
- Provide two Level 3 Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for this project. These two should be the initial (or planned) and final (or actual) WBS. Explain the difference [2 pages] 20Marks
- Based on (7), was there evidence of scope creep in the project? Provide a rationale. 5Marks
- Create one network diagram for the project using the final WBS in (7) above [1 page] 30Marks
- Use the Level 2 tasks in the final WBS to create one GANTT chart for the project. [1 page] 30 Marks
- Use the initial and final WBS to create two high-level budgets for the project. These two should be the initial and final budgets. Explain the difference. [2 pages] 30Marks
- Using the risk sources, describe three major (broad) categories of risks in the project. 6 Marks
- Using a table, list at least ten individual risks ranked by severity, and also link each of them to one of the categories in (12) above [1 page ] 20Marks
- For each risk in (13) above, describe at least one thing that was done or could have been done to mitigate that risk. 5Marks
- Was their adequate quality management processes in place (including quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control)? Provide a rationale. 4Marks
- Was there adequate outsourcing in the project? Provide a rationale. 5 Marks
- The journal-title indicates this project was a failure. Do you agree? Provide a rationale. 5Marks
- If anyone in your group was appointed the project manager for this project, what would you have done differently to make this project successful? 5Marks
- Describe at least five major lessons that can be learned from this project. 5 Marks
- Other – Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion (one paragraph each) 10Marks
- Other – Effective APA (Times New Roman, font size 12, double-spaced, in-text citations, grammar, reference list, etc) 10 Marks
- Other Considerations 5Marks