Assignment -

Project - MONITOR SYSTEM: In Logistics Planning and Optimization.

Assessment 1 - Project Presentation

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. To deliver an oral presentation on the project

2. To be capable of critical, reflective and creative thinking and evaluation

3. To demonstrate a high level of proficiency in oral communication skills

Requirements - An important aspect of project and research work is the ability to discuss your work with colleagues and/or clients. The oral presentation gives you the opportunity to present your ideas in person to the audience.

You will present your project for 15 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes to answer audience questions.

Your presentation should provide an overview of your project and aim to stimulate audience discussion. In addition to speaking, you should use appropriate visuals including PowerPoint slides or videos or demonstrations. You may notice that the marking criteria is weighted towards delivery skills; you must still cover all important aspects of your project in the presentation. Given that the oral presentation is also meant to provide early feedback for the final project report, we expect you to cover the following aspects clearly:

Introduce the project in a manner that can be comprehended by an audience with limited expertise in the topic area.

• Project background and context
• Clearly state the purpose
• Clearly explain the deliverables
• Justify your claims with various forms of evidence and argument

Give a brief overview on the approach used (this need not be too detailed, but enough to convince the audience that you had a well-considered plan for designing and executing the project)

Clearly describe YOUR contributions from the project

• Discuss your findings/outcomes: what artefacts did you create or what insights did you gain?
• Discuss the implications of your findings/outcomes (the 'so what?' of this work: who can use these findings/outcomes, and how might they use them?)

There will be a number of project presentation sessions over several days in Week 12. All students are required to register for a slot and attend that presentation session, as instructed in the classes and specified on the unit Blackboard site. You must try to register for a session chaired by your project coordinators, and invite your supervisor/s to attend.

Please abide by the registration instructions provided, as failing to do so could mean that you may miss out on the presentation slots of your choice or even not be able to present at all.

Assessment 2 - Specifications & Marking Guide for Final papers of a Literature Review project

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. To demonstrate advanced knowledge or ability to apply learnt knowledge in practice, for the problem domain that you have chosen

2. To research issues relevant to the given problem domain using a literature review and chosen research method

3. To perform analytical, critical, reflective and creative thinking within the project context and evaluation of project outcomes

4. To demonstrate a high level of proficiency in written communication

5. To work productively , independently through the adoption of the most appropriate project management approach and research method for the project context

Requirements for a literature review paper - Below, a brief layout for a literature review paper is suggested with rough estimates of the anticipated words for each section. Please note that these are only rough estimates and you need not strictly abide by them.

Title - The title should be concise and descriptive. Be precise enough to suggest the nature and scope of the literature review and concise enough to be referred to quickly and easily. The title should also be "catchy" to attract the readers' attention (less than 20 words)

The title page should also include the units associated with your project.

The title page should also include the name of your supervisor(s) and project coordinator.

Abstract - This should be concise and provide a complete overview of the full paper; a reader should be able to understand all pertinent facts related to the paper from the abstract. An abstract should concisely (i.e. in 350 words or less) present the purpose, scope, research method for the Literature review, key outcomes and recommendations from the literature review completed. (Length: 350 words)

Introduction

• Clearly describe the background and/or context of your research project.
• Describe the research questions you are trying to address from this literature review
• Describe the aims and objectives of your literature review project.
• Give a brief overview of the method(s) you have applied (with pointers to further details in the dedicated methods section below).
• Recap the scope of your project.
• Briefly summarise the key deliverables (results and outcomes) and explain the anticipated significance (to both practice and research).

(Length: 1000 words)

Literature Review Methodology - This section will provide a detailed overview on how you design and implemented your literature review. Make sure you make reference to and adopt well established literature review guidelines and clearly articulate the methods, tools, and procedures applied. Essential aspects such as how you extracted papers (the design and execution of the search strategy), how you made inclusion/ exclusion decisions and managed the quality of the papers, how the synthesis and analysis took place and how the findings were presented etc, all must be covered in detail. The rigour of your literature review approach is an essential ingredient for the validity and reliability of the review findings, hence must be well presented. (Length: 1500-2000 words)

Literature Review Results - The literature review results should align to the set goals and deliverables (specified and promised in the Introduction). Make sure that all 'promised' deliverables are presented and that all literature review results are appropriately interpreted. (Length: 3000-4000 words)

Discussion - The Discussions will critically explore the key findings from the literature review. While this can be a separate section it can also well be integrated as part of the literature review results and interpretations and/or as part of the paper's conclusions.

Literature reviews, like all projects have strengths and limitations. You should critically analyse your own work and clearly recognise the significance and limitations as part of the Discussions

You should also discuss any key recommendations arising from your work and/or discuss the next steps that must be taken to move the project forward or develop the work further. Ideally you can propose a Research Agenda based on your literature analysis. (Length: 1000-1500 words)

Conclusion - This is where you bring this review paper to a closure. Do not introduce any new material or key concepts. Use the conclusion to link together the threads of your discussion and close off the narrative. Make sure that the significance of your work is clearly stated and potential future work identified. (Length: 500-750 words)

Reflections on your learning - As a final aspect of the assessment for the project, you should provide a 750 word reflective discussion. This should include any challenges that you faced, how these challenges were identified and managed, what you have learnt from doing this project as well as any opportunities you can capitalize for your future from this project experience. This should also be correlate with the weekly progress updates that you had reported on (do keep in mind that you should submit your weekly project tracking sheets as an Appendix).

You should consider the overall strengths and weaknesses of your work, by referring to the marking criteria provided for the assignment. Some questions to prompt you may be:

• What were the things/activities you thought you did best in this project?
• What were the things/activities you thought you did least well in this project?
• Were there any specific problems or challenges you encountered? How did you handle them?
• What did you find as the hardest part of this project?
• Which areas of your own professional knowledge and skills, or your personal attributes do you feel require further development?
• What was the most important thing you learned doing this project?
• What have you learnt about project management and research within professional practice?
• What kind of opportunities or next steps you see based on your learnings doing this project?

Your reflective discussion should be handed in with your final review paper, and it should be supported with evidence such as your weekly meeting logs. (Length: 750 words)

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