Success of a project is affected by different triggers, for example:

ASSESSMENT: DESCRIPTION

Success of a project is affected by different triggers, for example:

lack of clear objectives and goals,

lack of communication,

unrealistic expectations

lack of resource planning

change of scope

lack of project strategy direction

The above triggers are amongst the most common ones, but recently lack of leadership skills particularly in disruptive times, has been added to the list. Unfortunately, successful project managers do fail; the key difference in strategic project management is that they learn from their mistakes and develop resilience skills.

This assignment is designed to lead you through a systematic evaluation of a real project. Your role is to critically analyse a project* of your choice please note that the task is not to summarise a project. We want to see that you have thought about the project and offered critical comments and insights based on your understanding of project management.

*The project:

Search for a real project. You can choose a project that wasnot completed successfully. Please note that we strongly encourage the selection of Indigenous projects and projects related to your field of study (i.e. Health, Engineering, IT, Management, etc).

Some examples of unsuccessful projectsare:

Airbus A380

Challenger Space Shuttle

World Athletics Championships 2019

Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Knight Capital

Ford Edsel

The Garden Bridge

The NHS Civilian IT Project

Sony Betamax

Waterworld

Pepsi Crystal

Denver International Airport

Instructions:

You are encouraged to search the Web for a project of your choice and to collect any type of information about the situation, making sure to cover different viewpoints. This could include newspapers, project management magazines and journals. As this project is a real case you can select completed projects or projects close to completion.

You will need to write a report that critically analyses how the project was planned and performed. The report should include:

1. Brief introduction to the HK-Zhuhai-Macau project.

This should explain what the project was and the context in which the project occurred.

2. A project stakeholder analysis.

Make sure to include a stakeholder analysis matrix / table in addition to your description.

3. A brief description of how the project was managed (e.g. strategy, key events, tools used etc).

In particular, explain whether the project ran to plan in which case explain the benefits of careful planning to the project manager.

Alternatively, if the project deviated from plan, why did this occur and what was the impact of these deviations for the project?

4. A critical analysis of the project outcome (i.e. the critical factors that made this project a failure).

Conclude by reflecting on the project, what did you learn? What good practices will you, as a project manager, take from this to future projects, and what activities would you not do in the future and why?

5. Appendix.

Please attached any links or scan any news articles which are not accessible in reference format.

Word count: 800-1000. Using APA reference style.