Introduction to Project Management Assignment -

Learning outcome: Undertake and monitor a project in accordance with the project plan.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS - Word count: 1000 words excluding your referencing.

Assumed that your project is executing and half of the project time has gone by, please write what activities you will do to and what techniques & tools you will implement to monitor and control your project and perform integrated change control when variances are detected. You are required to engage in some research into tools and techniques provided in the textbook and others which are being implementing to direct and manage a project in order to apply to your project executing phase.

Instructions:

1. Introduction:

Write an overview of what areas you will focus to monitor & control to ensure the project to be completed on time, on budget and met the quality requirements or minimize these variances

2. Validate and control scope

• Write what activities you will do to validate and control scope.
• Explain how you will perform them and what tools and techniques you will implement in this step?

3. Control schedule

Assumed that at this moment, half of the project time has gone by and a number of your tasks are leads and a number of them are lags. Choose the activities that are leads and lags and choose the amounts of leads and lags to do the following tasks:

• Write what activities you will do to estimate the future completion time. Explain how will you perform this task and what tools and techniques you will implement.
• Write what activities you will do to minimise the variance of completion time. Explain how will you perform this task and what tools and techniques you will implement.

4. Control cost

Assumed that half of project time has gone by, at the moment, the Earned Value (EV) is 10% under the Planned Value (PV) and the Actual cost (AC) are 10% higher than the Planned Value (PV)

• Write what activities you will do to forecast the estimate at completion (EAC) using Earned value management method. Explain how will you perform this task and what tools and techniques you will implement.
• Compare the EAC and your project budget and write a performance review to present the status of the project performance. Recommend what activities should be taken to minimise the variance on cost and explain why.

5. Control quality

• Write what activities you will do to control quality.
• Explain how you will perform them and what tools and techniques you will implement to do this task.

6. Control communications

• Write what activities you will do to control the communication.
• Explain how you will perform them and what tools and techniques you will implement to do this task.

7. Control risks

Assumed that half of project time has gone by, a risk has been happened during this time and has been responded according to your risk response plan. However, the response was not effective as planned. Choose a risk from your risk register in assignment 1 to do the following tasks:

• Write what activities you will do to perform risk audit on this risk response. Explain how will you perform them and what tools and techniques you will implement to do this task.
• Write the report of risk audit to inform the effectiveness of the risk response and the reason of its ineffectiveness. Recommend what changes should be made to the risk response and explain why.

8. Perform integrated change control

Write what activities you will do to approve change requests.

Explain how you will perform them and what tools and techniques you will implement to do this task.