Project Closure Report for Melbourne-Brisbane Inland Rail Project

Assignment 3: Individual Project
Closure Report
Weighting: 30%
Submission Details: Submit through Turnitin Link below
 An electronic copy of this report is required.
 Any documents created in Excel or Microsoft Project must
be included in the final file uploaded.
 Please use the Project Closure Report template provided,
as the basis of your assignment.
Task:
Develop a Project Closure Report with a focus on:
1. An executive summary that clearly and succinctly
describes the performance of the project and any
outstanding actions.
2. Provides details of the performance of the project cost,
time and scope compared to the planned baseline.
3. Provides a perspective from the Project Sponsor and
Project Manager on the performance of the project.
3,000 words (maximum).
In addition, provide a minimum 250 words on what you have
learned during this course.
Scope:

This assignment will assess your understanding of the process,
value and outcomes of completing a formal closure of a Project,
using the principles identified in Project Integration
Management.
The assignment should compare the completed project against
the planned baseline (e.g. what you would expect in the Project
Management Plan). Some other key points to remember...
 Section 1: The Executive Summary should be 1 page
and summarise the key elements of the other parts of the
assignment. The Project Overview (Section 1.1) should
provide a description of the project and what it was
intended to achieve. Project Performance Summary
(Section 1.2) should summarise Section 2, and in particular
Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.
 Section 2: Is the key part of the assignment and will show
how well the project performed. You will need to create
the final data (e.g. cost, time, scope and variances etc) for
your project to be able to compare it with the planned
baseline.
 Section 3: Is a written perspective of the project: you will
need to write from the perspective of both the sponsor and
the project manager. The sponsor will be interested in the
quality, cost and timeliness of the solution; also does it
provide the basis for the expected benefits? The PM will be
interested in the performance against baselines (time,
cost, scope) and also the performance of the team and
lessons that have been learned.

 Section 4: Is what you have learned from the course:
make sure you cover the whole course content.
Criteria by which your assignment will be marked:
 The standards by which the assignment will be assessed
include an understanding of principles and referencing
these.
 There will be penalties for exceeding the word
limit. Quotations do not count in the words counted.
 The objective of these questions is for the participant to
consider the theoretical material supplied and attempt to
apply it to a real project example. Therefore, evidence of
having read and understood the material is important.
Marks will be given for the comprehensiveness of the
content, evidence of additional reading, referencing
these readings in the answer, and application.

In answering these questions try and state principles as
well as detail.
Just reproducing PMBOK (especially
cutting and pasting diagrams) is not enough!
Template
Project Closure Report
Melbourne-Brisbane Inland Rail
Project