BTEC Level 7 Extended Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership (QCF)

Unit 17: Project Development and Implementation for Strategic

Managers
Assignment
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Date of Issue: 23rd MAY 2011

Date of Submission: 22nd JULY 2011

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Assignment Questions
As a project manager, you have been assigned a business project to develop and
implement it. Being a strategic project manager you need to take a full and active
role in all aspects of the project and the selection of an appropriate management
issue is crucial to success.
You will have to cover a full range of management activities and roles, including
resource and people management and implementation of change. The result needs
to be a substantial report in a style appropriate for consideration by senior
management.
In your report you need to provide the comprehensive answers with appropriate illustration of the
following questions.
Task 1
Be able to develop a project specification
Your answer should include:
Analyze the factors that contribute to the process of project selection
Develop outline project specifications for the implementation of a new
product, service or process
Produce a specification for an agreed project to implement a new
product,
service or process
Task 2
Be able to plan for the launch of a project to implement a new product,
service or process
Your answer should include:

Produce a project plan for an agreed project

Match appropriate resources to a project

Cost all resources required for implementing a project
Agree timescales for the management and implementation of a project
Plan an appropriate strategy for the implementation of a project

Task 3
Be able to implement a project
Your answer should include:
Implement a project in accordance with an agreed specification
Develop appropriate measures to monitor and evaluate progress and
outcomes
Monitor the implementation of a project
Task 4
Be able to evaluate the outcomes of a project
Your answer should include:

Analyze the outcomes of a project in terms of the original project specification

Evaluate the outcomes of a project
Make justified recommendations for improvements to the project
Task 5
Be able to present the outcomes of a project
Your answer should include:

 Produce a report of all project procedures used

Present the outcomes of the project to an audience using an agreed format
and appropriate media