MGT7231 Assignment #5 - Define, recognize, and explain your understanding

MGT7231  

Assignment #5: Case Study 

This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements:

CLR 1: Define, recognize, and explain your understanding of the field of study to others using Project Management terminology. CLR 2: Analyze, synthesize, and produce documentation showing an understanding of the methodology and practices within PM. CLR 3: Construct project documentation and reports utilizing tools and techniques used in the delivery of a Project. CLR 4: Communicate clearly and effectively using appropriate documentation tools.

Objective of this Assignment: To demonstrate the ability to integrate key Project Management Knowledge Areas into a single document and to

utilize theories and concepts learned in this course to analyze project management situations and to produce a

realistic Project Plan.

Assignment Tasks: Situation Governor-General Mary Simon summoned you today, October 01, to Rideau Hall. You noted how excited and nervous she is. She just got off the telephone with the Queen’s Private Secretary about Her Majesty’s wish for a Canadian homecoming from June 26 to July 02 of next year.

Her Excellency mentioned she wants you and your staff of five to plan and execute the highlight of the Queen’s homecoming: the official Canada Day State Dinner. Governor-General Simon asked you to plan for 110 diners including herself, the Royal Party, and Canada’s government leaders and luminaries. She said, “numbers may inflate in days before the event but number of total diners must not exceed 120”.

She gave you a maximum budget of C$400,000. She wants the dinner to be formal and elegant. To make it easy for you, your team’s only responsibility is the State Dinner. She suggested you study past Governor-General State Dinners as well as those hosted by the President of the United States. You assure the Governor-General that your team will not fail her. The Royal Party: The Queen, the Dukes & Duchesses of Cornwall, Cambridge, Sussex; and Princess Anne You and your team are Project Management certificate graduates. You will prepare and present a Project Plan to Her Excellency on October 29. The Plan, should at minimum, include the following:

1. Table of Contents 2. Name of project and summary background (e.g., essential information to properly identify and explain

the context for this document) 3. Project stakeholders, teams, and project organization (identify and state the role of stakeholder

organizations and teams, a project organizational chart works well for this)

 

 

 

4. Summary of project objectives, tasks, and deliverables Project schedule--tasks, start and end dates, and Gantt chart. (You may choose to only summarize tasks at a medium level in your task hierarchy (e.g., 2-level task summary from a more detailed 3-level WBS)

5. A budget (summary of main budget items is OK) 6. Risks and risk response strategies for the selected risks (e.g. how to deal with several powerful individuals

jockeying for seats and insisting their “plus one” be included) 7. Summary of appropriate quality management plan for a State Dinner 8. How do you and your staff plan to do project monitoring, reporting. and communications activities

(tracking progress, status reporting, team and client communications, etc.)

Your assignment is to be submitted in MS WORD format. It should be submitted with following guidelines:

• Include a cover page with the course code and course name, the assignment number, the title of your assignment, your student ID, your name, the instructor’s name, and the date the assignment is created.

• Ensure the first page of your assignment has the title at the top of page and the required documentation

be all in one file with headings and subheadings to chunk your paper into sections for each of the required project documentation you are writing about.

• Font should be either Calibri or Arial, 11pt. Text must be double spaced but table may be single spaced. • You must cite all your sources of information using APA formatting.

• Create a separate reference page that lists all of your sources that you have cited in text. Sources include

software used. Also, personal communications from a professional in the field count as a reference source. For citation and referencing examples, see https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_f ormat.html