Importance of Project Leadership

Project Management L5 2017-18
Formative Project
Complete the form to the best of your ability, based on the information about the project case
project you have already been given. Submit using the appropriate Turnitin link that corresponds
specifically to your allocated seminar.
IMPORTANT: This document is NOT your project. Instead it is a brief set of notes and headlines that
can help form the foundation of your project. If you do this properly and get some feedback it will
help hugely getting you started on the formal summative submission elements.
Task 1a – PID
Title of Project
Estimated budget (from brief) For conducting project activities effectively, £200k funds has
been provided. This funds will help in performing all activities
of this project in appropriate manner.
How might you break down this
number into key categories?
Start date 01/04/19
Finish date 01/03/20
Project Sponsor
Project Manager
Main objectives (essentially a
short list of key business reasons
why this project is being
undertaken)
The main objective of this project is development or
recreation of mobile application. This will be helpful in
providing day to day details about QAHE clubs and societies.
Overall suggested approach
(some major points describing
how you will go about achieving
the above objectives). NOTE:
This is about the PROCESS you
will use and main steps you will
take to achieve your goal.
For achieving the aim and motive of this project, manager
have to distribute different task and activities to all team
member. Risk register needs to be prepared by manager in
order to control different activities.
Any major risks that you would
like to highlight to the sponsor at
this early point in the project
The major issues and risk that is identified is related to lack of
appropriate funds. Timely delivery of products or mobile
application can be consider as an issue.
Reference(s) for templates/ideas
used to develop this
Task 1b – Simplified Stakeholder Analysis
Note: This is NOT a template for a full stakeholder analysis and your final project will need more
columns and more detail
Name of
stakeholder
Why they are interested in Project, whether they are for or against you
and what you are going to do to look after them throughout the project

Students
Students are interested in this project as though this they will be able to
get complete detail about the club and society activities. This will help in
enchaining their university experience.
University’s
management team
University management team is also in support to this project activity.
Through development of mobile application students will be able to
engage more with activities of University.
Academic staff
Academic staff is in against of this project activities as due to this students
will not be able to concentrate on their students. Extra curricular activities
will lead to have negative impact grades of students.
Government
Government is in favour of this project as through this students will be
able to enhance their skills and capabilities. Extra curricular activities will
be very supportive in development of personality of student.
........
Reference(s) for
templates/ideas
used to develop this
Task 2 – Simplified Risk Register
Risk management can be describe as a way that will helpful project manager to perform task
and activities in effective and efficient manner. This refers to the process that will lead to
identifying, analysing as well as controlling various issues and threat to project (Maylor, 2010).
There are different types of risk and issues occur while conducting activities of research project. It is
essential for researcher to control these issues and manage these risk effectively in order to perform
task in better manner. Risk management planning will help project manager to perform task in such
a manner that desired objectives could be timely achieved. While conducting this research there are
various issues occur that needs to be managed by manager of this project. In order manage
different risk, project manager have to maintain risk register.
Risk register can be describe as an effective tool that will help manager to identify and manage risk
of project in effective manner. Risk management register in mention below in detail in respect to QA
higher Education.

Risk Mitigation Action Contingency
Action
Pre action score (Out
of 10, where 10 is
high risk and 1 is
low)
Post action
score (Out of
10, where 10 is
high risk and 1
is low)
Inappropriate
funds or lack of
financial amount
while
development of
product.
In order to
manage this issue
project manager
needs to analyse
and evaluate total
amount that will
be required to
develop effective
mobile
application. In this
manager have to
classify amount as
per the different
requirements of
project.
For managing the
activities of this
project successful
project manager
needs to identify
different sources
that will be
required by
manager to collect
funds. Project
manager needs to
make sure that
they have right
amount of funds
for creating mobile
application.
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Delay in
development or
delay of product
or mobile
application
In this situation
project manager
should be aware
about the all legal
actions that could
be taken by when
mobile application
is not deliver
timely.
In this case project
manager needs to
plan it project
strategies as per
Plan B. so that
project activities
could be timely
done and
objectives is
accomplished.
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Mobile
application does
not match with
requirement.
When developed
mobile application
is not able to
perform task in
effective manner
or does not match
with the
requirements.
Manager have to
In order to handle
this situation
clearly manager of
respective
university needs to
update their
requirements and
provide
appropriate
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