IE 4240 Project Management

Project Guidelines
1. Guidelines for Project
a. Teams of 5 persons each (one or two may have 4 because of class size)
b. A small project that can be completed in eight (8) weeks.
c. Clear deliverables of website, product prototype, event, service offering
d. Scope of project wide enough to have clearly defined roles for each team member.
e. Approval from instructor needed for project ideas (by the end of the second lesson)

2. Deliverables for Project

a.

The project must actually be executed.

b.

Team Report (see below) each team submit a single team report

c.

Individual reflection report (at most 1 page) about learning from project each team
member submits an individual report

d.

Presentation

e.

The team report and the individual report are due October 28, 2015 at 11:59pm.
Upload it in Student Submission folder of the Workbin in the module IVLE
website.

3. Guidelines for the Project Report

a. Not more than 10 pages (excluding title page, table of contents, and appendices)
b. Using times Roman size 12 font with 1.5 line spacing

3.1 Process Section (brief and concise)

a. Objectives, Scope and Deliverables for Project
i. Clearly articulate how project benefits stakeholders that you target, i.e.,why have the project
in the first place
ii. Specific enough to serve as a performance measurement when the project is done
b. Work breakdown structure
c. Milestones and budget
d. Organizational process aspects of the project (that is, communication, team, conflict
management, leadership, and motivation issues)
e. Project achievement

3.2 Project Learning Section (more extensive)

a. What went particularly well on the project?
b. What was particularly difficult on the project?
c. Analyse the reasons things that went well and badly for the team.
d. How did carrying out the project contribute to the teams learning about project management?

The items in Section 3.1 and 3.2 are guidelines. Not ALL of them are mandatory for you
to discuss (By the way, I am not fielding any question on which items are mandatory). You have
gone through the course, so you should have some idea what are important to put in.
Beyond that, each of your projects are unique efforts there is no one-size fits all report
for me. Note that you are not writing a project progress report or a final project report about the
project itself. The important focus is on learning from your efforts.
So there should be enough (but not too overwhelming) background information of the
project to help reader understand the experience within which the learning took place. Your
group should use its collective wisdom and judgment to decide what to include as key items
critical to your learning.

4. Guidelines for the Individual Reflection Report

I want to know what you personally learnt from undertaking the project?
This could take the form of a learning about yourself strengths, abilities and limitations
you did not notice but brought forth through doing the project. Or it could be some deeper
insights or understanding of concepts in project management that came about because your
experience with the project.
The above are just examples if I have the time, I would interview each and every one of
you on this portion but as it is, I must work within the time limitation and I can only read what
you choose to write.