Post-Project Review and Recommendations

The assignment requires students to review a completed project, evaluating its performance against business and project objectives. The report should include references to information presented, discussing governance, personal experiences, and effectiveness of the project's objectives. Additionally, it will involve reviewing specific areas such as contract forms used, risk management, procurement of materials and services, resource estimates vs actuals, and communication strategies.

Reviewing the completed project
The purpose
The main purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate skill in reviewing a
completed project and making recommendations for future action and analysing
the review issues and evaluating your experience.
The assignment:
Prepare a post-project report for the below in an appropriate format. Your
report should include references to the information presented. Overall
performance reflects on how well your project performed against the business
and project objectives. In your report, evaluate how well the objectives were met
and include aspects of governance, personal reflections and experiences of
managing the project. Examples to consider are: personal journey, approaches
used, leadership aspects, team management, team development, handling of
change management) and present your recommendations for future action.
• Report format using supporting resources.
• Discusses aspects of governance, personal experiences and effectiveness of
how well the project met the objectives.
• Evaluates all relevant critical factors.
• Gives recommendations that are realistic and can be implemented.
Review of specific areas of the project you will have to review what did and did
not work in your project.
(a) Discuss the forms of contract used in the project. If contracts were not
used, you may adapt this question by considering the type of contracts
you would use if you were asked to use contracts.
(i) How well did the forms of contract accommodate the project’s
objectives?
(ii) Discuss any issues arising from the negotiation of contracts
throughout the entire project.
(iii) Consider what other forms of contract could have been used. Give
reasons why they may or may not have been preferable.
(b) Explain how risk was managed in this project. Justify the level and
type of actions taken.
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(i) How could risk management procedures have been improved?
(ii) What lessons in risk management could or should be documented
for the future?
(c) Identify and evaluate the procurement of materials and services for
the project. This may involve discussing how quality was ensured, how
different bids were compared, and lessons relevant to future projects.
(d) Compare your original resource estimates with the results of the
project, and account for any differences.
(e) Explain how communication was managed in the project. Did your
original strategy work?
The discussion of each issue relates directly to the project. The review discusses
and calculates:
• forms of contract
• risk management
• procurement of materials and services
• resource estimates and actuals
• teamwork and communication.
Review of project-management tools and methods
(a) Evaluate the usefulness of the project management software tool you
used for your project.
(b) Evaluate the usefulness of the other tools used on your project (such
as estimating, scheduling network diagrams, critical path analysis, earned
value analysis, and so on).
Evaluation demonstrates understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the
project management software tool. (20 marks)
- number evaluated (5 marks)
- evaluation demonstrates understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the
project management tools and techniques. (20 marks)
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