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Project Management ASSIGN 1 An Investigative Report 2023

This document outlines an assignment for a project investigation report. Students are asked to individually investigate an actual project, write a report not exceeding 1500 words, and present their findings to their class. The report should provide an overview of the project, including rationale, stakeholders, lifecycle, issues that arose and how they were addressed. It should also assess project performance and benefits. Students must review relevant literature and reflect critically on any conflicts with best practices or critical failure/success factors. The written report will be assessed based on technical content (70%) and written presentation (30%). It is due in Week 7 and must follow the Harvard referencing style.

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Project Management ASSIGN 1 An Investigative Report 2023

This document outlines an assignment for a project investigation report. Students are asked to individually investigate an actual project, write a report not exceeding 1500 words, and present their findings to their class. The report should provide an overview of the project, including rationale, stakeholders, lifecycle, issues that arose and how they were addressed. It should also assess project performance and benefits. Students must review relevant literature and reflect critically on any conflicts with best practices or critical failure/success factors. The written report will be assessed based on technical content (70%) and written presentation (30%). It is due in Week 7 and must follow the Harvard referencing style.

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Project Management ASSIGNMENT 1

Title: A Project Investigation An Investigative Report

1.0 Assignment
To individually carry out an in-depth investigation into an actual project, submit a written report and make
an informed seminar presentation to your year group.

2.0 Objective

The Actual Project Case: here an agreed project should be fully investigated giving an overview of the
project, rationale, owner, sponsor, stakeholders, project life cycle and timeline, critical issues /problems
arising and solutions found and give an assessment of project performance and benefits.
Appropriate literature should be reviewed and a critical reflection undertaken upon any conflicting views
with good practice, critical failure factors and critical success factors involved in the implementation of the
project. These must be linked back to the material covered in the Lectures for Topics 1-7

3.1 Written Submission - To include: the report, (and any further documentation in an appendix). It
is expected that the report document should be not more than 1500 words of the students own work –
references titles etc can be excluded, typed on one side of A4 sheets, with the Arial 12 point font, 1.5
spaced with full details of the assignment given on the first page. An electronic version of this document
must be submitted via the Blackboard system. It should be fully referenced in accordance with standard
bibliographic practice (BS 5605) HARVARD SYSTEM (names).

4.0 Assessment (overall module weighting 50%)


The written documentation will be assessed against the following criteria

Technical Content 70% Written presentation 30% Total 100%

5.0 Submission Dates

The Written documentation – Week 7

6.0 References

Appropriate research literature, learned journals and professional publications. HMSO Publications in the
sector subject area. Government documents, Public & Private sector intranets.
BLD705 Investigative Report Rubric” (Weighting)
Criteria 0-39% 40-49% 50-59% 60-69% 70-79% 80-100%
Criterion 1 Technical Very little information Minimal material Appropriate material Good material Excellent material provided on Outstanding material provided
Content (70%) provided on the critical provided on the provided on the critical provided on the critical the critical success and failure on the critical success and
success and failure critical success and success and failure success and failure factors. failure factors.
factors. failure factors. factors. factors.
Criterion 2 Use of English: Absence of criticality, Acceptable level of Appropriate level of Good level of Excellent level of criticality, Outstanding level of criticality,
grammar, spelling, syntax, referencing, layout, criticality, criticality, referencing, criticality, referencing, referencing, layout, referencing, layout, appropriate
punctuation, sentence unclear or unacademic referencing, layout, layout, appropriate style. layout, appropriate appropriate style. Written in style. Written in the third person
construction, flow, style style. Written in the acceptable style. Written in the third style. Written in the the third person
(15%) first person Written in the third person third person
person
Criterion 3 Material and Absence of structure Acceptable level of Appropriate level of Good level of structure Excellent level of structure to Outstanding level of structure to
Layout: use of contents to deal with critical structure to deal with structure to deal with to deal with critical deal with critical success and deal with critical success and
success and failure critical success and critical success and success and failure failure factors. failure factors.
page, sections/chapters,
factors. failure factors. failure factors. factors.
headings, appropriate
illustrations, Coverage of
the material in the brief
(15%)

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