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...

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 – 3,000 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, summarise 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 utilisation of academic literature. Whilst you use the recommended textbooks and unit resourcesyou may also refer to relevant, academic journal articles and cite, at least twenty (20) times.