Effective Project Management

Reading Required before writing: Wysocki, R. K., 2014, Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, 7th ed., Indianapolis: Wiley (PDF Attached) 1) Chapter 4 (How to scope a TPM project) 2) Chapter 18 (A practical project-based model of the Enterprise) 3) Chapters 10 (Agile project management) 4) Chapter 11 (Extreme project management) 5) Chapter 12 (Comparing linear, incremental, iterative, adaptive and extreme PMLC models) Assignment Brief: For an organization with which you are familiar: You are a Project Management Consultant who has been brought in to advise an organization regarding their Project Management processes with regards to a specific project that they are considering. You are tasked to develop a business case within a formal report which justifies the approach that you have taken and: 1) Why it is important to be clear as to the reason for the project and consideration of alternative solutions 2) How project success should be measured 3) Introduces the context including an explanation as to the drivers for this project and how the idea should be evaluated and a business case developed Before using the project as an example: 1) Prepare a business case 2) Advise how the project should be scoped after acceptance to enable more detailed planning 3) Recommends how the project should be implemented (choice of the life cycle and methodology/frameworks to be applied, scope management) You may use web references as well. Additional links that will help: https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/tailoring-benefits-project-management-methodology-11133 https://hennyportman.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/prince2-agile-a-first-overview/ https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/project-methodologies-impact-success-contexts-8947