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Blog--Critical Success Factors in Project Management Grading Guide

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Project Management Capstone

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Learning Team Assignment: Blog--Critical Success Factors in Project Management

Purpose of Assignment

To understand how to run a successful project, students must examine what factors contribute to a failed project. Failed projects may be costly to organizations, but research shows the incidence is high. Several best practices are suggested to help project managers overcome these challenges, resulting in successful projects. Students will research this phenomenon. Teams also identify critical success factors in project management, providing linkage between theory and practical application of best practices of project management.

Grading Guide

Content	Met	Partially Met	Not Met	Comments:
The team identifies critical factors in project management.
The team analyzes the relationship of the project sponsor and manager and how it is analyzed throughout the project management lifecycle.
The team provides a minimum of six reasons for project success and failure.
The team provides examples of how organizations overcome challenges associated with project failure.
The team provides best practices of project management.
All Learning Team Members write a minimum of four detailed, substantive blog posts to demonstrate engagement in the discussion.
The blog is 1,050 words in length and uses the template provided.
		Total Available	Total Earned
		7	#/7

Writing Guidelines	Met	Partially Met	Not Met	Comments:
The blog—including tables and graphs, and reference page—meets course-level requirements. References are in APA 6th edition format.
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a reference page.
Discussions are logical and reflect graduate-level analysis.
Discussions are collaborative and represent the work of the group, not a single team member.
Rules of grammar and usage are followed including spelling and punctuation.
		Total Available	Total Earned
		3	#/3

Assignment Total	#	10	#/10
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