- Create a business case for establishing a Salford Christmas Land
Summary: You are responsible for creating a detailed and unique business case, including project plan, for the project described in the following pages.
Submission deadlines: See ONLINECAMPUS
Word Limit: 3000 (Part A + Part B)
This assignment is worth 50% of the total mark for the Project Management Leadership and Skills module. The other 50% will be assessed by an individual final assignment at the end of the module.
Assignment brief
You have recently been appointed by the Salford City Council who is seeking to develop a Christmas Tourism Attraction of its own but they have concerns over the problems that Harrogate had with their ‘Blunderland’ project (see appendix 1). Your assignment is to write a report on the prospective Salford Christmas Land as a project – considering what is likely to go well and what not so well.
Your report should therefore focus on the project management aspects including the key risks e.g. loss of money and overrunning its schedule and not meeting the performance requirements expected from a project of this type.
Part A (20%)
This involves the preparation of a PowerPoint presentation of your business case and project plan as detailed in the assignment brief. You are required to prepare the slides along with associated written notes for submission with Part B. Part A should be included in the beginning of Part B, in a Word/PDF document.
Weighting for task A: 20%
Part B (80%)
Produce a detailed business case and project plan, and any recommendations to the Project Board that you consider appropriate. You may want to use some of the sub-headings below, but that is entirely up to you: this is not a template.
Literature review
Provide a short, but critical view of literature around project initiation and planning, paying particular attention to the differences between different approaches and how those are relevant to your context. Provide justification for choosing one approach over the other
Introduction to your case
Identify the major planning problems with the Blunderland project and suggest how project management techniques might have helped to mitigate these problems
Project objectives
Performance Measurement / Management of quality
Stakeholder analysis
Activities to be carried out and scheduling including any milestones – you must include a project schedule created using Microsoft Project (MSP) or equivalent
Resources to be used including project budget
Constraints and Risks
Communications to be used
In addition please discuss the following in your report:
Possible success/ failure factors for this project
Considerations concerning future operations
Include a bibliography of your sources.
