Posted: February 4th, 2015
Module title: Project Management and Professional Development
Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements
| COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT SPECIFICATION |
| Module Title: | Project Management and Professional Development |
| Module Number: | CM0647 |
| Module Tutor Name(s): | Shelagh Keogh |
| Academic Year: | 2013/14 |
| % Weighting (to overall module): | 60% |
| Coursework Title: | Assignment 2 – Report on Project Management |
| Average Study Time Required by Student: | 115 hours |
Dates and Mechanisms for Assessment Submission and Feedback
| Date of Handout to Students:
Week 7
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| Mechanism for Handout to Students: Sent on email and on the eLearning platform
(e.g. in lecture class, via elp)
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| Date and Time of Submission by Student:
8th December 2014, by 4:00 pm
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| Mechanism for Submission of Work by Student:
In hard copy to B201, Ellison Building and electronically to “Turnitin directory under the assessment tab in Blackboard.
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| Date by which Work, Feedback and Marks will be returned to Students:
Via email by 16th January 2015
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| Mechanism for return of assignment work, feedback and marks to students:
Via email |
This is an INDIVIDUAL piece of work contributing 60% towards the module assessment.
Evidence of plagiarism or collusion will be taken seriously and University regulations followed. You are advised to be familiar with the University definitions of plagiarism and collusion.
Word count must be between 1800 – 2200 (not including reference list or other appendices); each submission must include a word count on the front page of their assignment
Learning Outcome
The learning outcomes that are being assessed in this assignment are:
- Identify suitable project management academic resources and use those resources to undertake academic research.
- Critically analyse literature concerning current issues in project management.
3 Critically appraise the role of the project manager within systems or software development projects
4 Critically discuss tools and techniques used in project management.
Background Information
Northumbria Engineering (NE) is an international company which develops engineering and technology products in all types of development, from corporate enterprises such as Opera Theatres, undersea tunnels, a complete portfolio of baseband processing software for wireless infrastructure and management information systems.
NE looks at every new initiative with a fresh perspective, no matter how big or small. The company supports partnership developments for its people, with its people and by its people; this approach is aimed at enabling, effective, efficient and creative approaches to producing new ideas and solutions.
The company is concerned that the rigorous processes required in managing projects are not enabling project managers to get the most out of their staff’s creative passions. They have approached the module tutor for CM0647 to see if the students can help research strategies that could be applied to their project management process that would help the project managers to generate take up of creative ideas from staff, whilst achieving project objectives, within time and budget.
Your Task
Your task is to:
- Recommend 3 strategies that would be beneficial to be adopted by NE project managers to support enabling team creativity within a project management setting…
- Suggest how these 3 strategies can be implemented by a project manager in a cost and time effective manner.
Guidance
- The main focus of your discussion should be on project management rather than broad and deep creativity discussions.
- Any strategies should be supported by literature.
- The report should be written in an academic style that contains reasoned arguments backed up by published literature from reputable sources. Drawing solely upon your experience and opinions is not acceptable, but may be included if appropriate.
- You are expected to provide a set of references, which are subsequently cited, in the report, as well as in the reference list at the back of your work. All sourcing of material should be correctly referenced.
- Your report structure should be as follows;
- introduction (background, structure of your report, overall conclusion),
- findings (main discussions/body of your report), with appropriate subsections. Do not use “Findings” as a title.
- conclusions/Recommendations (no new discussions should appear in your conclusions, all these conclusions should be drawn from the main body of your report)
- Staff can provide formative feedback on your report. All formative feedback can be sought through your seminar tutor during the seminar sessions, up-to Friday at the end of week 11. After that time no questions will be responded to via any communication channels. This is to encourage you to start you work early.
- As with all reports all students will not reach the same conclusion as each other, therefore your work will be judged on the strength, logic, and quality of argument supported by evidence from literature.
Marking Scheme
The following is a guide to the marking of the assessment
| Assessment Criteria |
Introduction which included background to subject, good structured précis of the report, and concluding arguments (7-10 marks) Introduction which included a background to the subject or a précis of the report (5-6 marks) Introduction which included background to the subject (4 marks) Introduction which included précis of the report (4 marks) Introduction with very little background and no précis of the report (1-3 mark) Introduction with an attempt at a précis and no background (1-3 mark) No introduction (0 marks) Total marks (10) |
The content of the findings presents strategies appropriate to the current project management requirements within the discipline, with insightful discussion, backed by evidence to support statements made. The work is of a suitable academic quality. (21-30 marks) The content of the findings presents strategies appropriate to the current project management requirements within the discipline, but overall report lacked depth (15-20) marks The content of the findings presented strategies appropriate to the current project management requirements within the discipline, understanding was demonstrated. (12-14) The content of the findings presents a vague connection to the report title; discussion is absent or presented a flawed and unclear argument. (0 – 11 marks) Total marks (30) |
Recommendations made showed excellent understanding of the issues, fully supported by literature and flowed directly from the discussion within c) above (21-30 marks) Recommendations showed very good understanding, could of been better supported by literature but flowed directly from c) above (15-20 marks ) Recommendations showed understanding but was disjointed within c) above (12-14) Recommendations show very little understanding (0-11) Total marks (30) |
| e)) Conclusions
The conclusion includes a précis of the report title, draws the reader to a reasonable end, based on the evidence in the main body of text. (7-10 marks) The conclusion includes a précis of the report title, presents a final statement but does not flow from the evidence in the body of text. (4-6 marks) The conclusion present a final statement (1 mark) No conclusion (0 marks) Total marks (10) |
| f)) Structure, presentation and relevance
A well-defined structure is evident, appropriate language and academic style is used throughout, the length of the report is appropriate and is relevant throughout. (7-10 marks) An attempt at a structure has been made but not necessarily achieved, some errors in language and style are evident and or relevance could be improved. (4-6 marks) No attempt at a structure has been made presentation is not acceptable, relevance is poor. (0-3 marks) Total marks (10) |
It is evident that a wide range of relevant text, journals and periodicals has been used to support the discussion within the report construction. References are correctly presented to an appropriate academic style. Limited use of direct quotations has been achieved. (7-10 marks) It is evident that a wide range of text, journals and periodicals have been used within the report construction but there are one or two errors in the presentation of the citations. (5-6 marks) Limited literature sources are evident in the work. References are absent or inappropriately presented within the work. (1-4 marks) No references are presented in the work. (0 marks) Total marks(10) |
| TOTAL: 100 |
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