Project Management Principles

Topic: Renewable energy best practice and implementation of national action plans in the 27 EU Member States

3. Project analysis

In this assignment, you are required to carry out two major tasks: (1) develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) for the selected project; (2) identify project stakeholders and perform stakeholder analysis of the selected project.

3.1. Developing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Assuming you are the contractor/supplier/service provider undertaking the project you have selected, you are required to develop a WBS using the approach taught in the class. Please refer to the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures for further reference.

There are a number of commercial drawing tools that you can use to create a WBS

diagram such as MS Visio and MS Word. If you do not have access to these too free online tool such as the one used during the class in Week 2 (http://www.wbstool.com/index.php) is recommended.

3.2. Identifying project stakeholders and performing project stakeholder analysis

For this task, you have to identify and describe the main primary and secondary stakeholders of the project. Based on the stakeholders identified, you are required to further conduct a stakeholder analysis using a stakeholder matrix, and justify why stakeholders are placed in a certain quadrant. Stakeholders should be specific and relevant to the project that you have chosen. As a guideline, the number of stakeholders should be around 10 -15 given the size of the assignment.

5. Assignment report structure

You are required to prepare your assignment report based on the structure set out below.

1. Introduction (5%, max. 1 page)

In this section, provide an overview of your report. This should include brief explanations of the project you selected and the tasks you carried out.

2. Summary of project deliverables (10%, max. 2 pages)

You are required to identify and summarise the main project deliverables explained in the call for tender of the project you have chosen.

3. Work Breakdown Structure (35%, max. 3 pages)

You are required to detail the WBS that you have developed as explained in Section 3.1. Include a WBS diagram and a list of tasks/work packages along with associated descriptions.

4. Stakeholder identification and analysis (40%, max. 4 pages)

In this section, you are required to list and describe key primary and secondary stakeholders as explained in Section 3.2. You are also required to construct a stakeholder matrix and justify your stakeholder analysis.

** Summary/Conclusion are NOT required in this assignment**

Please note that the remaining 10% of the final report mark will be assessed against the following criteria:

 Quality of writing (clarity, spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.)

 Formatting/layout consistency

 Quality of diagrams/illustrations

The main body of the report (Sections 1-4) should be no more than 10 pages

General format of the report

 Times New Roman with font size of minimum 10 points, maximum 12 points

 Paragraph spacing: Minimum – single line, Maximum – 1.5 line

 Left and right margins: 2.5 cm.

 Top/Bottom margins: 2.5 cm.

The final report must have:

 A report cover page with course number and name, project title, group number and full details of group members with % of contributions

 All sections and sub-sections clearly numbered

 Page numbers

***Table of contents and referencing are not required for this assignment***