Thomas PJM 510 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT Final Project Purpose

PJM-510: PROJECT MANAGEMENT Final Project Purpose
You are required to submit a final paper (between ?10–12 ?pages) in the form of an executive project
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? ?high level report to your company’s Vice Presidents and Directors. In this paper, you will apply
a range of project management principles and methodologies presented in your textbooks by Jack Gido,
James P. Clements, Harold Kerzner, and other scholastic articles/cases used in this course. Scenario: The World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia
You have been hired as a consultant by the World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia Committee to manage
the planning, execution, and closeout of all World Cup Soccer games in Ethiopia-East Africa.
The assignment is known as the “World Cup Soccer Games in Ethiopia Project” and the goal is to
produce a report addressing project management activities and tasks that will be handled by the team
that you will lead. There are a total of 20 teams and although all travel (flights, bus, etc.) into Ethiopia will
be handled by participating countries, your team is responsible to coordinate the following:
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Food
Transportation to the games
Medical personnel
Security
Other In your report, you should provide information on how your company plans to coordinate the activities
during the game. This includes everything from choosing the venues to what time the activities should
start/end. Your Project Management proposal execution report should also discuss the challenges and
mitigation strategies that you and your team will implement for the World Cup Soccer Games in Ethiopia
that will take place for 20 days in Ethiopia in 2026. Instructions
Connect your report to what you have learned in the textbooks by Gido, Clements, and Harold Kerzner by
including, at minimum, the following topics:
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? Project initiation (project selection)
Effective project management
Project planning Copyright © 2016 by Thomas Edison State University. All rights reserved. ?
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? Work breakdown structures (WBS)
Managing risks
Costs and budgets
Schedules (time/delivery)
Internal and external resource utilization (team)
Project communications
Performance and monitoring of the World Cup Soccer Games? ?project
Project closure
Lessons learned Guidelines
The final project must include or demonstrate the following:
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? A minimum of four scholastic references
Accepted research approaches and citation format (APA)
Is well developed, organized, coherent, and unified
Conveys your understanding of the readings and concepts
Displays proper grammar, spelling, and mechanics Copyright © 2016 by Thomas Edison State University. All rights reserved.