Your tasks
This assessment item requires you to work INDIVIDUALLY
As a project management consultant, you have only three (3) months to correct the situation. You would need to:
i. Explain how you would go about identifying the root cause (s) by proposing the use of appropriate tools and techniques.
ii. You will propose a plan to eliminate or reduce the root cause (s) taking into considerations the
resources that are required.
iii. Develop a continuous improvement plan to ensure the problems and issues are not repeated.
You may refer to the knowledge area Quality Management from PMBOK, Prince2 or from any other
quality management systems such as ISO9000 series, TQM (Total Quality Management), Six Sigma /
Lean Six Sigma etc. to devise your continuous improvement plan.
Your submission should be made using Microsoft Office documents and the essay submitted as a
separate 2,500 words Microsoft WORD document (excluding references list).
You should describe all of the required parts of your continuous improvement plan. A range of sample continuous improvement plans will be identified for you to study during the unit. You must not include pictures or diagrams in the body of the essay. You must provide an ILLUSTRATION OR DRAWING OF YOUR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN in the appendix of your essay.
Your essay should be a properly constructed academic essay. It should contain an introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction should introduce the essay and include your recommendations. The body should present the evidence you have collected to support your argument, provide your assumptions, summaries the evidence and the conclusion should restate your recommendations. The essay should contain a coherent, but necessarily restricted review of the academic literature on the project management topics in question. The literature review should be integrated into the essay, not a separate section. Do not include an executive summary or an abstract. A reference list formatted in the prescribed Harvard style is compulsory. Do not include a bibliography. This assessment item involves researching your assigned topic to enhance your understanding of project management concepts and utilization of academic literature. Whilst you use the recommended textbooks and unit resources you may also refer to relevant, academic journal articles and cite, at least twenty (20) times.
PPMP20009 Project Management Methodologies Term 2, 2017
Assessment Criteria
your assignment will be assessed on the extent and quality to which it meets each of the following criteria.
No Attributes (%)
1 A pictorial illustration of the continuous improvement plan is supplied? …….10
2 A high-level textural overview of the continuous improvement plan is provided? ……..10
3 an implementation plan has been developed that is an accurate reflection of the case study? ……..10
4 The continuous improvement plan should reflect the following:-
i. The continuous improvement plan reflects an ability to use and apply fundamental concepts
and skills of the unit, going beyond mere replication of content knowledge or skill to show
understanding of key ideas, awareness of their relevance, some use of analytical skills, and
some originality or insight in relation to the learning outcomes of the assignment
……..25
ii The continuous improvement plan demonstrates awareness and understanding of deeper and
less obvious aspects of the unit, such as ability to identify relevant tools and techniques,
ability to solve non-routine problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new situations, and
ability to invent and evaluate new ideas……..25
iii. The continuous improvement plan has been presented with imagination, originality or flair,
based on proficiency in all the learning outcomes of the unit; work is interesting or
surprisingly exciting, challenging, well read or scholarly…….10
5 Clarity of expression, grammar and spelling? …………10