Team Contract Development: Project Management and APM Competencies

This project assignment focuses on the development of a team contract, exploring various aspects of project management and leadership. The assignment begins with the creation of a short-term team contract, outlining expectations and commitments from each team member, referencing the APM Competencies framework. It then delves into the APM competencies in detail, discussing their importance in project planning and execution, including ethics, team management, conflict management, and resource management. Furthermore, the assignment explores the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), emphasizing their relevance to project management. The project also includes project planning elements such as PESTLE analysis, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Gantt charts, risk analysis, RACI matrix, and stakeholder management strategies. A reflective writing component is also included, requiring the student to analyze their project management knowledge and experience using the APM competency framework, and the assignment concludes with a SWOT analysis of the project and the application of the reflective writing methodology using the example of the situation, actions, results, and reflect. This assignment provides a holistic understanding of project management, emphasizing the importance of contracts, competencies, sustainability, and ethical considerations.

Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF A TEAM CONTRACT
Development of a Team Contract
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Table of Contents
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................2
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................7
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................8
Task 5: Project Planning and Success.............................................................................................9
Pestle Analysis.............................................................................................................................9
WBS...........................................................................................................................................10
Gantt Chart.................................................................................................................................11
Risk Analysis and Mitigation....................................................................................................11
RACI Matrix..............................................................................................................................11
Stakeholder Management Strategy............................................................................................12
Task 6.............................................................................................................................................12
Task 7: SWOT Analysis............................................................................................................14
Task 8.............................................................................................................................................15
Task 10...........................................................................................................................................16
List of Examples to use for the reflective writing.....................................................................16
Establishment of the reflective writings....................................................................................17
Discussing the ideas with the team............................................................................................17
Task 11...........................................................................................................................................18
Example:....................................................................................................................................18
Situation: Where were you?.......................................................................................................18
Task: What did you have to do?................................................................................................18
Actions: How did you do it?......................................................................................................18
Results: What were the results?.................................................................................................19
Reflect: What did you learn?.....................................................................................................19
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................20

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Task 1
The setting of a contract would be entirely be based on the understanding and knowledge
acquired from Competence 6 Contract Management of the APM Competencies. A short-term
contract that would be set for the performing of project with the team are:
Competencies Planning
Commitments 1. The project work would be undertaken only if qualified team
members would be present.
2. Realistic and honest members involved in planning and
reporting of project schedule, project scope, scheduling, costing
and staffing.
3. Providing notification to other team members and sponsors
regarding any change processes.
4. Focusing over all aspects of the project.
5. Viewing the end results of the project leading to successful
outcomes
Participation of Team
Meeting and Rules
1. Keeping issues within the team unless indicated for discussion.
2. Open nature of communication and honesty during the team
meetings.
3. Encouraging the gathering of diverse opinions based on all
topics.
4. Giving opportunity to all team members based on equal
participation.

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5. Proactive nature on new kind of approaches and listening to
several new ideas.
Communication Rules
in Team Meeting
1. To be clear and specific to the point of discussion.
2. Practicing effective and active listening skills.
3. Keeping discussion on a proper track.
4. Using several visual means that would include charts, tables
and drawings based on facilitating discussion.
Problem Solving in
Team Meeting
1. Encouraging every team member to participate in group
discussions.
2. Encouragement of ideas based on the discussion of new
concepts.
3. Building and development of ideas from others.
4. Use of team tools during appropriate times based on facilitation
of problem solving.
5. Use of dates for solving problems.
Decision Making in
Team Meeting
1. Collection of feasible data and making necessary decisions.
2. Seeking of needed information or data.
3. Exploring and encouraging the different forms of
interpretations based on data.
4. Asking team members based on supporting decisions before
taking any final step.
5. Getting of inputs from other team members before making a

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final decision.
Handling Conflict in
Team Meeting
1. Regarding of conflict as normal and taking them as a major
opportunity leading towards growth.
2. Seek towards understanding of desires and interests based on
each party before arriving at final solutions to questions.
3. Choosing of a proper time or place based on discussion and
then resolving of conflict.
4. Acknowledging different valid points based on understanding
different valid points made by other persons.
5. Seeking of a common ground based on agreement.
Guidelines for Team
Meeting
1. The meetings would be declared from ______________.
2. The meetings would be held at ________
3. Meetings would be conducted in the __________ room.
4. Evaluation of the meeting sessions would be performed by
________.
Team Meeting
Procedures
1. Team meetings would be informed to every team member by
their supervisors.
2. Every team member needs to attend the team meetings.
3. Absenteeism from team meetings would be taken as a strict
decision. In such cases, you are requested to inform the
supervisor, one day prior to the meeting.
4. Any form of unresolved issue within the team meeting would
be handled efficiently by the supervisor and reported at the

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earliest.
Task 2
During the planning for any project, it is important that the project should follow a
framework such that the good practices are included at every stage of a project. The APM
competency framework is the required framework that allows the good practices to flow through
the entire project. Following would be detailed discussion about the APM competencies:
Competencies Discussion
1. Ethics, compliance and professionalism This competency would enable the
entire project team, including the
stakeholders, vendors, employees and
the end users to have high moral
standards set during an ongoing
project. Everyone would be assured of
the decisions taken and the actions
performed to be morally correct.
2. Team Management The effective team management
endorses for a great management of
time and resource, as the members are
aware of the project and their
individual duties.
3. Conflict Management It is necessary for the throughout
success of the project and avoid delays
due to internal conflicts.
4. Leadership Leadership in any project would keep
the people be enthusiastic about their
individual and group work and even
encourage every individual to work
together as a team.
5. Procurement Required for establishing and
maintaining good relations with the
vendors and suppliers for their services
throughout the project lifecycle.
6. Contract Management It is extremely helpful for reducing the
financial risk in a project.
7. Requirement Management This ensures that all the documents,
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a project between the internal and the
external stakeholders and felicitated
with the constraints and objective of
the organization.
8. Solution Development The best way of satisfying with the
project with the determination of the
requirements in the project.
9. Schedule Management Ensures that every person in the project
team is aware and following the same
task, project dependencies and project
deadlines.
10. Resource Management This is extremely critical to undermine
the people optimization, budget
efficiency and the use of materials as
per the project requirements.
11. Budgeting and Cost Control It optimizes the estimation of costs,
planned project expenditure and good
understating of the resources used for
the project.
12. Risk Opportunity and Issue Management Helps in foreseeing the risks associated
with a project and strategize effective
mitigation strategies as per the
availability of the project resources.
13. Quality Management Ensures that all the project activities
are designed, planned and implemented
according to the set standards
maintaining the quality of the
performances.
14. Consolidated Planning The workplan of the project
management deliverables are
maintained along with all the required
documents for the project.
15. Transition Management Helps in having the evident transfer of
knowledge between the project team
and the maintenance team and all the
knowledge transfer that occurs between
them.
16. Financial Management This helps in ensuring the ongoing
management of finance within the
project.

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17. Resource Capacity Planning This helps a project to have a long-term
planning of the project capacity and the
level of resources.
18. Governance Arrangements Common failure reasons, investment
optimization and good governance
policies can be ensured with this
competence.
19. Stakeholder and Communications
Management
Maximizes the chances of project
success and minimizes risks occurring
due to incapability of information
sharing.
20. Frameworks and Methodologies Provides an effective project
framework and has a definite structure
and direction to the projects.
21. Reviews Helps in the identification of the
project areas that require attention for
making the project successful.
22. Change Control Proposing changes during a project is
defined appropriately.
23. Independent Assurance Ensures the remaining project to be on
track before the objectives are diverted.
24. Business Case Provides the justification for the
undertaking of the project.
25. Asset Allocation Reduction of risk through
diversification is ensured.
26. Capability Development Encourages the leadership of an
organization to evaluate the process as
per the organization capability.
27. Benefits Management Helps in having a structured approach
in a project for maximizing the benefits
due to the result of a change.
Task 3
1. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) are defined as the
blueprint that focuses towards the better form of achieving of sustainable future for all groups of
people. The SDGs are primarily built based on addressing towards global challenges that are

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faced by people, which includes poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, justice and
peace. The SDGs were primarily adopted within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
which had also included the 17 principles based on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
2. Under the Competency 10 of APM Competencies, which is known as resource
management, the resources that help in the connection of project management with the UN
SDGs are based on putting focus over the people living in the UN who primarily live in the state
of poverty. These people mostly lack terms based on infrastructure, proper healthcare, education
and security. People in these countries are also affected from hunger, exclusion from different
decision-making procedures and social discrimination.
3. As a project manager, there would be a massive need to understand the basic goals that
need to be set for attaining the concepts based on sustainability. This could be linked with the
Competence 2 Team Management and Competence 8 Solutions Development. Based on the
achievements from all these developments, it can be discussed that the proper understanding of
goals based on the knowledge of sustainability would lead to better development of strategies
and focusing over the development of team skills. Development of a proper form of strategy
would help in achieving the objectives that have been set for SDGs.
Task 4
1. Understanding of the resources based on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR),
these could be understood and linked with Competence 10 Resource Management. The resources
that could be focused over CSR are:
a. Human and Business Rights
b. Financial crime and Corporate Crime

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c. Defining of Corporate Governance
d. Ethics based on Wealth and Corporate Power
e. Ethics for Responsibilities based on the Supply Chain
f. Sustainability of Food Supply Chain
g. Standards focusing on Security, Safety and Health
2. The CSR and Project Management could be linked together based on identifying their
capabilities to identify various projects and understanding of the social responsibility that needs
to be undertaken for the proper management of projects. From the understanding of the
competencies from Competence 1 Ethics, Compliance and Professionalism, it can be discussed
that the project manager would need to have a strong sense of grasping the market opportunity.
They would thus need to understand the ethics and social responsibility that would lead to
manage the various projects efficiently. The impact of CSR would help the project managers to
understanding the importance of ranking different social issues as per their critical state and also
put them under the consideration of impact and probability.
Task 5: Project Planning and Success
Pestle Analysis
Political: Politically, there would be specified success factors relying on the political
aspects of project management. the factors that is considered for this are the tax policies,
government policies, trade reforms, health and safety factors of the project team.

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Economic: This includes the availability of the budget, the interest rates, the inflation
rate, import and export taxes, the reception and economic growth, exchange rate and minimum
wage.
Social: The project success about the social factors of project management lies in the
expectations and cultural norms of the project team and the end users, the demographic
population, the general attitude of the population towards certain issues that is concerned with
the outcome of the project.
Technological: The technological factors considered for the project management success
are the automation of the projects, technical constants, the research and development behind the
project and the new technologies that has the ability of replacing the old ones.
Legal: The legal factors are assumed to be the health and safety laws, the regulatory
framework switch in this case is the APM competency framework and employment law before a
new team member is introduced within.
Environmental: The environmental factors to consider are the natural disasters during
the project, the climate of weather conditions and the geographic location of the project.
WBS
Figure 1: Sample WBS
(Source: Created by the Author)
Summary Task 1
Task 1 Task 2 Summary Task
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Task 3 Task 4 Task 5 Project Closure

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Gantt Chart
Figure 2: Simple Project Plan
(Source: Created by the Author)
Risk Analysis and Mitigation
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RACI Matrix
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Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
1 Summary Task 1 5 days Wed 08-01-20 Tue 14-01-20
2 Task 1 2 days Wed 08-01-20 Thu 09-01-20
3 Task 2 3 days Fri 10-01-20 Tue 14-01-20 2
4 Summary Task 0 days Tue 14-01-20 Tue 14-01-20 3
5 Summary Task 2 10 days Wed 15-01-20 Tue 28-01-20
6 Task 3 3 days Wed 15-01-20 Fri 17-01-20 4
7 Task 4 5 days Mon 20-01-20 Fri 24-01-20 6
8 Task 5 2 days Mon 27-01-20 Tue 28-01-20 7
9 Project Closure 0 days Tue 28-01-20 Tue 28-01-20 8
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Stakeholder Management Strategy
Stakeholder management strategies extremely important for every project plan so that
every stakeholder within the organization understands their importance within the project and
how the information is being transferred to them.
Stakeholder
Name
Stakeholder
Division
Project
Involvement
Communication
Strategy
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Task 6
1. The setting of ideas for a career in project management could be understood from
Competence 26 Capability Development. From the understanding of the inbuilt competencies, it
can be understood that:
a. Evaluation of the organizational capability based on professional standards and
maturity models.
b. A project manager should be able to understand the development and implementation
strategy for the organization based on the development of workforce.
c. Assessment of skills of other individuals within the team should also be considered
before initiation of the project.
3. One way in which development of skills and knowledge would be required for finding
an employment as a project manager would be based on imbibing the passion to grasp
opportunity. The project managers should develop skills based on learning skills based on proper
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for development of the project. These could be acquired based on developing knowledge and
understanding of Competence 20 Frameworks and Methodologies.
5. In order to discuss the skills based on enhancing the career prospects based on project
management, the APM competencies that could be studied are: Competence 1 Ethics,
Compliance and Professionalism, Competence 11 Budgeting and Cost Control and Competence
15 Transition Management. The different other ways based on which the project management
career prospects could be enhanced are:
a. The project manager should have a strategic approach based on focusing over the
project goals.
b. The financial impacts that would be made over the project should be understood by the
project manager.
c. The project manager should also have a strong sense of adapting to various changes
that might take place within the organization. Adapting to best practices would be the best
perspective of progressing over various aspects of the project.

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Task 7: SWOT Analysis
Strength: As per my personal idea, I believe that I have a great sense of understanding
the skill of communication that needs to be established between the people within a team.
Weakness: My weakness is that, I cannot ensue an autocratic leadership to force upon
the team and I ask for their opinion as well for having an insight on the overall project from their
perspective.
Opportunity: I have an enormous opportunity of enhancing my leadership style so that
my entire team can understand the utility of the APM competency framework before the
competency contract is signed by the team members. This will make them sure about the word
that there are about to perform based on the contract that they have signed.
Threat: The threat as per the skills I have noticed is the understanding of time
management that I lack in for an effective communication. I believe that my team should
understand communication and eliminate communication gaps first before they proceed with a
project. This might require some time out of the planned project timeline.

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Task 8
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Name: To be filled by student
Phone Number: To be filled by student
Email address: To be filled by student
______________________________________________________________________________
Work Experience
2019 – Present: To be filled by student
______________________________________________________________________________
Education and Qualifications
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Task 10
List of Examples to use for the reflective writing
As it is mentioned before that APM competence framework is effective for the portfolio
management, project management and program management, both current practices in future
needs of the profession is clearly specified by the framework with the help of a common
benchmark required for all individuals essential for the project activities. The understanding of
the framework developed is in use so that every individual person involved in a team can
understand their duties in the new role understand their career enhancement in future be sure
about selecting the correct person for the correct job, maintaining the quality standards and also
learning to develop provisions for the staff. in this case as well for the reflective writing I have
chosen several examples such that I can have a clear understanding about how to proceed with
the APM competency framework in developing team contracts. I have used several sustainable
development goals of different countries and even resources about corporate social
responsibilities.
Following are few examples that I have used for the reflective writing in understanding
the team contract competency according to APM competency framework:
 The staffing problem in organization that leads to faulty projects.
 Not understanding the budget before indulging into the project planning leading
to over budgeting and delayed projects.
 Not having a harmonic cultural diversity established within the organization
leading to team conflicts during a project.

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Establishment of the reflective writings
There are several organizations that I have found as an example the do not comply with
the general competency framework as per the APM competency framework. due to this every
problem has establish while a project is being progressed because of ineffective team
management. open the contacts do not show any application of the APM framework and
therefore the bring about of people together for motivating and coordinating them to achieve a
unified goal is not realizing individually. Management of conflict, attaining leadership to make
the team understand the reason of having a team to achieve the unified project goal is required.
This will ensure that the resource management and the team management is going hand in hand.
Team management is also required for projects to continue thoroughly adhering to the specified
time and budget. There are several evidences where projects of fallen because of not
implementing the APM competency framework, feeling to establish an effective team. Any
search engine can give evidence of these facts.
This facts of provided me with the understanding of team competency and also the
requirement of a contract following all the points described in the framework. This is made me
analyses the examples that have been put forward before me.
Discussing the ideas with the team
It is important that not just the person making the contract understands the APM
competency framework, but it is also required that the people within the team are also aware of
all the facts the framework has put forward. The effectivity of the team is only established when
the rules and regulations come natural to the team and the understand why each of them has been
selected as an individual so that their individual skills can we put together towards
simultaneously for the organization to reach the specific goal. I have realized that it is not just the

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person making the contract but the involved team members who are even more important to
understand the clauses in the contract as per the APM competency framework.
Task 11
Example:
Effective communication is one of the project management competencies that I am about
to reflect on to make sure that a team understands the competency or skill of having information
shared at all levels of the project team. There might be a situation which is being taken as an
example here that due to lack of communication between people within the project team, a
project completely fails since there was no information shared between the people who have an
intermediate project head between them.
Situation: Where were you?
I was one of the project heads that was present to bridge the gap between the two groups
within the project team.
Task: What did you have to do?
I had to work as a bridge between the project team who are supposed to be e working for
and unified gold for an organization. Whatever progress they were making where had to be
reported to me
Actions: How did you do it?
Since both of the teams continue to perform and report to me about their progress, they
also had to communicate with themselves so that their unified effective work would be reported
to me rather than one by one information passed on. This could waste time further.

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Results: What were the results?
The results were simply reflected on the way by which both of these teams interacted
between each other before coming to me as I have communicated the idea to both the teams.
Unified information was passed onto me without wasting valuable time for the project.
Reflect: What did you learn?
I learnt that every project has a very important aspect, called time, which can be used and
saved at the same time with the correct utilization of strategy, staying within the APM
competency framework contract, and being an effective leader.

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