Presentation - Project Value Management
Overview of assignment requirements
Give a presentation about an aspect of project management. The intention is that no topic should be covered more than once during the term, so the tutor will approve topics on a first come basis.
Your presentation can be about:
1. Any area of project management that is related to the weekly topics and adds a significant body of new material, a different perspective or depth to the information already covered in the course lecture material. It is important that you extend your knowledge and that of the class beyond what will be covered in this unit during the term.
There is scope to research and present more information about many of the weekly topics. For example, in the Quality Management week students may wish to investigate Six Sigma further or ICT students may wish to cover more detail about quality management in the Software Engineering discipline.
Some suggested topics include:
a. Oversight/Governance of Project Management
b. Project Value Management
c. International Projects
d. Systems Engineering and Project Management
e. Project Management for Construction and Plant Development (specialised topic appropriate for Engineering students only).
f. Project Procurement Management
g. Human Resource Management including topics such as:
i. Motivation theories
ii. Team building
In this assignment, you can also draw from your experiences and incorporate them into the assignment. If you don't have any work/project experience, that's fine too. You can also take the opportunity to be controversial and find academic and trade literature that challenges an aspect of the material you are presenting. Pose questions - make your audience think.
You are required to produce the script for the presentation that should include some potential questions and responses indicating where you would pose questions to engage your audience. In addition, the end of the script is to include three potential questions (with their answers) that you would anticipate being asked by your audience at the end of the presentation.
Presentation schedule for all students
The time limit for the presentation is 15 minutes for the presentation (as a guide this should be no more than 15 slides) .The 15 slides limit does not include the title slide, "any questions slide" or the reference slide. It is important to adhere to the time limit set.
Slides with the list of references and the "any questions" slide must be included at the end. All slides must show the source(s) of the content or marks will be deducted.
- The presentation format is to be determined after discussion with the local tutor. Innovative presentations will be welcomed.
- Each on-campus group must prepare and distribute a handout for each of their fellow students. This handout should be in a format that students can use as a summary of the main points of the seminar and include the references. All students are to include their script as part of their presentation, that is, what would be said if they were giving the presentation in front of an audience. The script should show clearly what would be said/discussed as each slide is presented. This script can be included in the ‘Notes' section of your .PPT file.
- The script associated with the "any questions" slide must include 3 questions that are likely to be asked by your audience and your proposed answers to those questions.