Assessment #1 – Critical Research Essay-Individual Assignment (Graded)
Value: 60%?Format: Critical research paper?Length: 1000 words?Due Date: 30 Aug 2014 1.00pm.
Detail
The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your knowledge of the hospitality industry project management system and the contribution you can potentially offer that system. It also serves to help you demonstrate skills in persuasively convincing potential clients of your capabilities.
Instructions
This is an individual assessment task.?The main objective of this assignment is to reinforce the importance of project definition and needs identification in the initial phase of the project life cycle. Success of a project is affected by the way a project’s objective(s) is defined, planned and managed. Unfortunately, successful project managers do fail; the key difference in strategic project management is that they learn from their mistakes. Project managers also learn from their success and are constantly searching for new strategies to further improve. In highly successful projects you are likely to find an excellent and valuable project team, a motivated project manager and a very efficient project structure. This assignment is designed to lead you through a systematic evaluation of a project. Your role is to critically analyze one real project – not summarize a project. I want to see that you have thought about the project and offered critical comments and insights based on your understanding of project management.
The project:
Search for a real project in the hotel and hospitality industry (Only). You can choose a project that was completed successfully or one that was not completed successfully. Make sure you chose a project where there is sufficient information about the project for you to access.
Instructions:
You are encouraged to search the Web for these projects and to collect any type of information about the situation, making sure to cover differing viewpoints. This could include newspapers, project management magazine and journals. As this project is a real case you can expand the information presented in the references (i.e. source).
Write a report that critically analyses how the project was planned and performed. The report should include:
1. Brief introduction to the project.?Please give an overview of your project. This should explain what the project was and the context in which the project occurred.?Clear identification of the stakeholders, objective(s) and scope of the project.?A brief description of how the project was managed (eg. strategy, key events). In particular, explain whether the project ran to plan. A 100 Word executive summary as well.
Alternatively, if the project deviated from plan, why did this occur and what was the impact of these deviations for the project?
2. A critical analysis of the project outcome (i.e. the critical factors that made this project a success or a failure).
3. Conclusion: Conclude by reflecting on the project, what did you learn? What good practices will you, as a manager, take from this to future projects, and what activities would you not do in the future and why?
4. Appendix.
The report should not exceed 1000 words and should be formatted using 1.5 line spacing and a font size of 12pt. The word limit does not include the appendix, or references. Please make sure you read the assessment criteria before commencing your assignment.
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