Assignment Cover Sheet

Qualification Module Number and Title

HND in Computing and Software Engineering SED5209/Business Skills and Managing
Business Projects
Student Name & No. Assessor
Thiviyan Senthilrajah
Hand out date Submission Date

Assessment type Duration/Length of Weighting of Assessment

Assessment Type
Group Report and Report - 6000 words Report – 80%
Individual Presentation – 20 Presentation – 20%
Presentation minutes

Learner declaration

I, …………………………………………………………………………, certify that the work

submitted for this assignment is my own and research sources are fully acknowledged.

Marks Awarded
First assessor

IV marks

Agreed grade

Signature of the assessor Date

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 FEEDBACK FORM
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
Module: SED5209/Business Skills and Managing Business Projects
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Learning outcomes covered
● Understand basic Project Management Principles and procedures
● Be able to Plan organizational elements, Monitor and control projects.
● Be able to handle project management process with groups.
● Understand the business skills necessary for managing business projects

Introduction -

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to achieve the
project objectives. A project is a unique, temporary endeavor, undertaken to achieve planned
objectives, which can defined as terms of outputs, outcomes or benefits. A project is usually to
be a success if it achieves the objectives according to their recognized criteria, within an agreed
period and budget. Business projects are separate to normal business activities, requiring people
to come together temporarily to focus on specific project activities.
The way the work managed depends upon a wide variety of factors including human and
technology factors. Project objectives expressed in terms of outputs (such as a new service),
outcomes (such as disseminating income report), benefits (such as quick decision making in the
organization).

Submission Guidelines

 Paper Size: A4
 Words: 6000 words
 Printing Margins: LHS; RHS: 1 Inch
 Binding Margin: ½ Inch
 Header and Footer: 1 Inch
 Printing: Single Sided
 Basic Font Size: 12
 Line Spacing: 1.5
 Font Style: Times New Roman / Arial
 Referencing should be done strictly using Harvard system

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Scenario

Form an organization with its own vision, mission and set of objectives. For the identified roles
of the organization, most suitable people should assigned. Every student should give a position in
the organization and they have to fulfill their responsibilities to achieve the organizational goals
and the objectives.
As an organization, you are required to plan a business project and generate profits. Each
individual should participate in achieving the targeted profits. Then the profit you have generated
should use for an effective community project. You are free to decide the project topic but it
should be creative, innovative, and positive towards the community. All the students are required
to participate actively for each of the activities of the project. Individual active participation and
teamwork skills will observed and assessed for the assignment grading.

Task 1: Produce a group report with the answers to the following tasks. (80% form to total
marks)

1. Critically discuss the strategy/goals to implement the business project. Apply SWOT and PEST
analysis. (6 marks)

2. Discuss the main issues that the project team faced when doing projects and suggest some
important recommendations to overcome such issues. (6 marks)

3. Discuss the viability of the project by financial and non-financial criteria. (10 marks)

4. The project success depends on better management of the project. Explain how you would
manage five process groups of project produce a success project and their main deliverables. (10
marks)

5. Analyze the stakeholders of the project by preparing stakeholder analysis report. (6 marks)

6. Explain the project scope and contracts had among the project team. (6 marks)

7. List the risks forecasted for the project, conduct risk analysis, prioritize the risk, and develop the
responding strategies. (12 marks)

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 8. Develop a realistic work breakdown structure, including resources assigned for each of the
activities. (20 Marks)

9. For the created work breakdown structure, generate a Gantt chart, network diagram and Activity
on Node. (10 Marks)

10. Discuss the good leadership skills, which are required for project manager to deliver a successful
project. (05 Marks)

11. Analyze the project performance techniques to measure the project performance. (04 Marks)

12. Discuss the main outcomes of the project and make some recommendations. (5 marks)

Task 2 – Presentation (20% of total marks)

The assignment to present to a panel of academics using power point format with maximum of
15 slides and duration of the presentation is 20 minutes. 10 minutes have allocated for the Q&A
session after the presentation.

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 Assessment Criteria

Task 01 Assignment
Task Poor Satisfactory Good Excellent
0 Critically discuss Poor work and no Basic Moderate work on Good introduction
1 the strategy/goals clear understanding of introduction. to the project
to implement the understanding of SWOT and PEST SWOT and PEST explained. Critical
business project. the project analysis analysis conducted analysis of SWOT
Apply SWOT and organized and conducted for the for the project and PEST analysis
PEST analysis conducted organized project organized without towards the
irrelevant analysis (02-03) critical analysis. project organized.
for the SWOT and (04-05) (06)
PEST.
(0-1)
0 Discuss the main Problems listed are Overview of the Problems listed not Realistic problems
2 issues that the not relevant for problems and not in detail and explained in detail
project team faced the project provided recommendations from the triple
when doing organized. No recommendations are provided constraints and
projects and recommendations (02-03) without an in- project and
suggest some provided or depth analysis recommendations
important recommendations (04-05) are realistic an
recommendations are not relevant (06)
to overcome such for the project
issues. (0-1)
0 Discuss the Theoretical part Basic Moderate work on Clear explanation
3 viability of the Feasibility study understanding of the project of the project
project by financial explained and not the feasibility feasibility feasibility
and non-financial related for the expressed explained in terms explained critically
criteria. project organized without of Operational in terms of
(0-2) evidences. Feasibility, Operational
(03-04) Technical Feasibility,
Feasibility, Technical
Schedule Feasibility,
Feasibility, Legal Schedule
Feasibility and Feasibility, Legal
Economic Feasibility and
Feasibility. Under Economic
the Economic Feasibility. Under
Feasibility all the the Economic
expenses for the Feasibility all the
project are clearly expenses for the
given project are clearly

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 (05-07) given and the
profit specified
including the
community project
expenses.
(08-10)
0 The project Little amount of Explanation of Each stage of the Each stage of the
4 success depends theory or no theory provided process groups process groups
on better explanation of on each process explained clearly explained clearly
management of process groups groups without using theory and using theory and
the project. (0-2) relating for the relating to the relating to the
Explain how you project work. project organized. project organized.
would manage five (03-04) Realistic examples Realistic examples
process groups of used in each used in each
project produce a phases. phases and
success Project (05-07) iteration of the
and their main process groups
de0liverables. explained or flow
of the process
groups presented
(08-10)
0 Analyze the Stakeholders are Stakeholders Detailed Detailed
5 stakeholders of not relevant for engaged with stakeholder stakeholder
the project by the project project are listed analysis provided analysis provided
preparing organized or not (01-02) along with along with
stakeholder attempt stakeholder stakeholder
analysis report. (0) mapping mapping and
(03-04) importance of the
stakeholders are
explained.
(05-06)
0 Explain the project Poor explanation Explanation Project scope Detailed project
6 scope and of project scope, provided based provided including scope provided
contracts had without on the project the deliverables including project
among the project deliverables and organized as and contracts are deliverables, user
team. no contracts of the scope explained without acceptance
team explained. (01) examples. criteria. Contracts
(0) (02-04) explained which
are managed
during the project
time line explained
using the examples
from the project.
(04-06)

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0 List the risks Risks associated Risks managed or Risks faced from Performed risk
7 forecasted for the with the organized faced during the the project are identification and
project, conduct projects are listed. project lifecycle listed and analysis of the risks
risk analysis, (0-1) listed and resolutions given performed to rate
prioritize the risk, explained using appropriate the risk.
and develop the (02-03) methodology. Resolutions for
responding (04-08) prioritized risks are
strategies given using
appropriate
methodologies
(09-12)
0 Develop a realistic Activities are not Set of activities Decomposed Decomposed and
8 work breakdown decomposed for given with activities on WBS realistic WBS
structure, the project durations to duration and provided including
including conducted or no complete the dependencies duration,
resources assigned proper duration or project provided. dependencies and
for each of the dependencies (03-04) (05-11) resources.
activities assigned. (12-20)
(0-2)
0 For the created ES,EF,LS and LF are Usage of proper Using all the Error free and all
9 work breakdown incorrect or no format for AON activities AON the activities are
structure, attempt for the with major created by finding used to generate
generate a Gantt activities created mistakes ES, EF, LS, and LF. the AON including
chart, network using WBS (02-03) (04-06) ES,EF,LS and LF
diagram and (0-1) (07-10)
Activity on Node.
1 Discuss the good Skills are listed or Basic Minimum of 5 skills Minimum of 5 skills
0 leadership skills, not analyzed understanding of are explained are explained and
which are required (0-1) skills and without analyzing analyzed using
for project explained 3 using examples examples.
manager to deliver minimum (03) (04-05)
a successful (02)
project.
1 Analyze the Poor explanation Explanation of Detailed Detailed
1 project of EVM or not EVM and related explanation of explanation of EVM
performance attempt or not for the project. EVM done for the done for the
techniques to discussed any (02) project organized project organized
measure the methodologies and any other and any other
project (0-1) methodologies methodologies
performance. used to explain. used to explain.
(03) Importance of
performance
evaluation in
projects explained
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 (04)
1 Discuss the main Outcomes listed Moderate Brief discussion of Brief discussion of
2 outcomes of the without explanation of the the outcome of the the outcome of the
project and make explanation or not outcomes planned project planned project
some related for the discussed and and realistic and realistic
recommendations project without recommendations recommendations recommendations
any provided without provided using provided using
recommendations. examples. examples from real examples from real
(0-1) (02) world. world. Suggestions
(03-04) provided when
choosing a project
and factors to
consider or trends
explained
(0-05)

Task 2 – Presentation
Introduction
 Did the introduction capture your interest?
 Necessary background given? 10
 Clear purpose conveyed/
Were visual aids use effectively and appropriately, carefully prepared? 15
Is the presentation creatively conceptualize and executed? 10
Were questions answered accurately, clearly, effectively and critically 25
Key points reinforced? 40
Sense of closure provided?
If appropriate, was a course of action proposed?