Question: Design a fund-raising event for Oxfam International for supporting vulnerable community in the UK

Project Scenarios:

You need to choose ONE of the projects as a group from the list below:

1. Design a Travel package for 20 tourists for a visit to Madame Tussauds, London
2. Design a fund-raising event for Oxfam International for supporting vulnerable community in the UK
3. Design a system to support elderly age citizens in the age group of 70-80 to use London council e-services
4. Design a plan for relocation of a manufacturing facility of automobile company from abroad to the UK. Choose any automobile company.  
5. Design a project for installation of Electric vehicle charging facility in the London city

Note: For all these projects, assume the following:

• Time: within 3 months (+/- 3 weeks)
• Cost: within £10,000 (+/- £1,000)

Assessment Specifications

This Individual Report is based on the project you have chosen as a group and have undertaken project planning during the semester. You need to consider the formative feedback received in the classes/tutors to produce a written report covering the following areas individually. Link to the theory where necessary:

1. Project Justification

Include a business case and provide justification for choosing this project; why this important for the organisation and/or wider community; explain reasons, expected benefits & dis-Benefits, deliverables, milestones, key stakeholders, exclusions/inclusions, constraints and any assumptions made.

2.  Project Time Management

Explain why the scheduling and time management is important for your project; how you have used theoretical knowledge for its appropriate application. This section includes the following aspects:

• Create a Work breakdown structure for your project
• Time Estimation and creating an activity list
• Network Diagram and Critical Path Analysis
• Gantt Chart using a professional project software

3. Project Finance and Cost Management

Explain the reasons of using project finance and cost management in your project; what tasks you performed; how the theory helped you to apply financial concepts. This section includes the following aspects.

• Cost Breakdown: Demonstration of costs associated in project
• Costing including contingency funds
• Any additional tables supporting costing

4. Project Risk and Stakeholder Management
   1. For Risk Management

Why risk management is important; how the risk management has helped to control/mitigate risk in your projects; what are the steps you have undertaken to do risk management in your project considering the following:

• • • Evidence of Risk Identification – What strategies did you apply?
    • Risk Assessment – Evidence of tools used like Probability vs Impact Matrix
    • Risk Planning – What are the responses plan?
    • Evidence of Risk Register

1. 2. Stakeholder Management

Why the stakeholder management is important in your project; what are the steps you have undertaken to perform stakeholder management in your project considering the following:

• Evidence for the Identification of the Stakeholders
• How the identified stakeholders could help or hinder the project
• Carry out a stakeholder analysis using Power vs Interest Matrix
• Develop a comprehensive stakeholder communication plan

5. Personal Reflection and Lesson learned from the groupwork

Demonstrate your personal and group learning using theory considering the following aspects:

• • What were your contributions as an individual within the group?
  • What skills, abilities or knowledge did you use to support your group members?
  • What are your strengths and weaknesses you figured out because of group working?
  • What hard, soft or leadership skills you gained because of undertaking this project?
  • What were the lessons learned and how would you apply in future for better individual and group working?

Assessment criteria

The assessment criteria and weightings show you what is important in the assessment and how marks are shared across each criterion. When you are completing your assessment remember you need to fulfil the brief and the assessment criteria below. At the end of this document, we have provided you a more detailed marking grid, which describes both the expectation for each criterion and how marks would be awarded based upon performance.

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