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SECTION A (Total 65 marks)
You continue to
assume the role of a seasoned project manager in Beijing Capital
International Airport (BCIA), who is assigned to work on the project with the highest
weighted score in your GBA Section 1, Question 2(c)(i). After developing the Gantt Chart in
your GBA Sect
ion 3, Question 5 and the estimated project cost in your GBA Section 3,
Question 6(a)(i), you presented your B
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Cite and appr
aise
all the conflict resolution strategies presented in your textbook and suggest
which one do you think is
the most appropriate
to resolve this conflict between the two team
members. Justify your answer.
Note: Base your answers
only
on the conflict reso
lution strategies that are covered in the
textbook.
(5 marks)
SECTION B (Total 25 marks)
The CEO decided to start the project 3 months in advance of the initial planned start date of 7
July 2014 in order to rush to get the project completed as soon as possible. The project
officially commenced on 7 April 2014.
A weekly meeting was conducted
to track the progress of the project. Every involved team
members were requested to report the amount of works that had been completed according to
their assigned tasks. The earned value system was setup to monitor if there was any issue of
cost or schedul
e overrun.
O
pen the Microsoft Project “ECAQuestion5” file that comes with your ECA
.
The Microsoft
Project File was used by you to track the project status.
Analyse
the file and
prepare a video presentation of at least 3 minutes but not exceeding 6
minutes which will be considered as your presentation to the
CEO.
You should exercise high
professionalism in the preparation for this presentation as your job
and reputation as a proj
ect
manager is at stake
. project to the senior management during one of the
project management oversight meetings
SECTION C (Total
10 marks)
You are also required to
submit
a
set of
presentation
slides
to your CEO to report the status of
your project as at 16 July 2014. It is mandatory that you make use of the attached Micros
oft
Project file
(ECAQuestion5)
in this ECA to extract all the relevant information that you will
need
in reporting to
your CEO.
Furthermore, your CEO is also concerned to know what had happened during the initial part
of this project as he heard about t
he heated argument between two of your team members. He
wants you to update him on what you have done to resolve the conflicts and what measure
you will put in place to try to reduce such occurrences
in future
.
You should exercise high professionalism in
the preparation for the slides as your job
and
reputation as a seasoned project manager
depends on it.
Prepare
slides
that
address
(but not
limited)
the following issues: