You are a Senior Project Manager within an external consultancy appointed by your client,

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Scenario

You are a Senior Project Manager within an external consultancy appointed by your client, and this is the first of a series of projects to be delivered; your client is an international, commercial, provider of Further Education colleges seeking to roll out a programme of new build facilities to enhance their existing estates and you will be using a JCT D&B contract.

 

Your client has a small internal design team who have concluded the concept design.

 

The new build will be provided over six floors with identical floor plates, classrooms and computer laboratories, over five floors, with generic facilities, a reception, catering, and communal amenities, at GL and building services plant located at basement and roof levels; external landscaping is basic, with parking for bicycles to be provided at GL.

 

Construction comprises a steel frame and part glazed external cladding. A central core provides service risers, lift and fire escape facilities and toilets and showers will be provided using pods manufactured offsite.

 

The project programme is envisaged as 52 weeks inclusive of fit-out post contract and your client is keen to tender the construction work imminently.

 

 

Task

Your director has asked you to provide a report for the client focused on the key challenges to be addressed as part of the delivery of this project. Your report should focus upon the following:

 

a. a critical analysis of the key challenges which may impact the management of the project programme.

 

b. a critical evaluation of the professional team and key stakeholders who may be required to deliver the project making best use of the time available.

 

c. a critical appraisal of key methods the project team may use to assure the required value, quality and cost deliverables are achieved.

 

Additional guidance

You must provide a report within the context of the scenario provided.

 

Your report must include cover/title page, introduction, conclusion, and recommendations. An executive summary is NOT required.

Appendices are NOT required.

 

Clearly state any assumptions within your work.

 

 

Reference list and bibliography

You should include a reference list with a minimum of six separate relevant and appropriate sources you have written about and cited within your work.

 

A bibliography is not required.

 

 

Further information to support you with this assignment is available within the study materials for this module on the UCEM VLE. If you have any questions about this assignment, please contact your Module Team using the Assignment forum in the relevant Assessment preparation week on the VLE.

 

 

Marking guidance for this activity

This guidance is designed to help you to do as well as possible in your assessment by explaining how the person marking your work will be judging it.

 

Your work will be assessed in relation to the requirements set out in the assessment criteria marking guide at the end of this document and the grading guidance section below.

 

It is recommended that you read both of these sections before starting your assessment to learn what will help you to achieve the highest marks. Once you have finished you should review the assessment before submitting it, to check you have done what is required to achieve the highest marks.

 

When you receive your feedback from your tutor you should clearly be able to see which categories you gained marks in and, where relevant, recommendations about how to improve your performance going forward.

 

Grading guidance

This grading guidance section explains in more detail what a submission for this assessment

should include in order to achieve a mark at the threshold, good and excellent standards.

 

Threshold

You will have produced a clear and concise report which explains and describes with some critical discussion the challenges of managing a project programme, the need to address the key members of the professional team and stakeholders who may impact the delivery of the programme, and value, cost, and quality control. Your report will include references to current best practice that you have found via research. You will have clearly presented and applied your answer to the given scenario. All discussions should relate to the scenario and should be supported by the minimum number of references.

 

 

Good

You will have met the criteria for Threshold and produced a relevant and sound report which critically appraises the most effective ways to manage the programme relative to the scenario. You will have systematically addressed the possible challenges of managing a project programme, and the need to address key members of the professional team and stakeholders who may impact the successful delivery of the project programme. There will be effective critical discussion of the optimisation and control of quality, cost, and value. These should be clearly articulated with evidence of competent self-directed research of current best practice and use of references to support the evaluation of project management challenges raised. All discussions should relate to the scenario and should be supported by a wider range of quality literature sources above the minimum number of references.

 

 

Excellent

You will have met the criteria for Good and produced a highly relevant and professionally produced report suitable for director level discussion, which rigorously and comprehensively critically appraises the options and validates the most effective ways to manage the project related to the given scenario. You will provide perceptive coverage of the possible challenges in the management of the project. There will be comprehensive critical discussion of the impact of the professional team and key stakeholders and the optimisation and control of quality, cost, and value. These should be clearly articulated with evidence of sophisticated independent research of current best practice and use of quality references to support the arguments relating to the construction management challenges raised. You will comprehensively provide an evaluation and professional judgement of alternative options to address the challenges of project management. These discussions will be supported by a very broad range of literature sources including relevant material that demonstrates in-depth, independent study.

 

 

 

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