As a Masters degree student, YOu Have a project and the brief goes thus:


Component A is a team presentation of 25 minutes (with 5 minutes of questions). 

As a group you will be required to create a PowerPoint presentation which will detail the planning and management issues of a global project. 

1.Choose a project you know off or you are interested in provided it is global, whether completed or in progress, and make sure that you are able to gather the information that is necessary for your analysis; 	 

2.There are two sets of slides in Blackboard > Learning Material > week 1. These slides give you directions how to use UWE resources to find a case project. 

3.Use the tools as described below in section 3. Content below and participate in the workshops to practice each tool with your group. 

The presentation will be live, and all group members will present ONE part of the Assignment for which they will be individually marked. Not all group members will get the same mark necessarily, it depends on the quality of their work and presentation in their own part. Group members who do not participate and contribute to the Assignment will have to re-sit as they will get 0. . 

This assessment strategy is employed to produce the type of output required by professional project management practice that is developed by a typical project team; and to maximize learning opportunities with added values for students’ development and character building.

This assignment requires you to develop research skills and find information that is useful for the purpose of detecting organizational issues related to the global environment and construct a plan. You will have to work with University databases and search through a large volume of information from Professional associations. 

If you have difficulty to choose a global project here are some choices: 

SMART CITIES
EXAMPLES 
https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/five-of-the-uk-s-most-exciting-smart-city-projects/ 
https://publications.iadb.org/en/international-case-studies-smart-cities-santander-spain 

GLOBAL HEALTHCARE PROJECTS 
EXAMPLES 
https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2017/04/7-projects-improving-healthcare-around-the-world 

GLOBAL MEDICAL AND BIOTECH RESEARCH PROJECTS 
EXAMPLES 
https://globalprojects.ucsf.edu/ 
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/funding-programmes/global-health.htm
https://www.tendersinfo.com/healthcare-and-medical-pharma-projects.php 
https://www.pharmaceuticalonline.com/doc/top-10-international-pharmaceutical-biotech-c-0001 

GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS 
EXAMPLES
https://borgenproject.org/5-top-humanitarian-aid-organizations/ 
https://www.humanitarianprojectsinc.com/

These are some examples, you can find global projects in most industries. 

Please do not just use Apple, Google or Toyota or any of these famous large organizations because you cannot have access to information about their projects. Choose projects about which you can discover information. 

I strongly suggest that you attend the workshops and be proactive in forming groups in week 1 and use the Direction files in the Learning Materials folders showing you case study books to select project case studies. 








2.Presentation Content & Structure 
The live team presentations should not exceed 30 minutes including Q&A and feedback from the tutor. This means that the presentation should be approximately 25 minutes maximum.  In a team of 5 people this means that each person will have to present their contribution for 5 minutes. 

It is the responsibility of the team to allocate the parts of the work amongst them. 


Content 

Your task is to present your analysis & plan of a global project. You will choose the project as described in the section above. 

STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION - PARTS: 

INTRODUCTION: introduce your project and your team and each team member’s contribution you are going to have a slide where you will attach next to each part the name of the team member who worked at it and who will present it.

ANALYSIS PART 1. Evaluate the challenges regarding such a project using the dimensions model from Binder   
Evaluate the impact of environmental factors on this project.
oCollect information about the project environment through industry & professional reports and company literature or case studies. You do not need to do primary research and collect information from the organization people. 

PLAN PART 2: Recommend the most appropriate method for managing your project using the  Global Project Management Framework from Binder. This part will focus on:
1.a risk assessment based on the Global Project Management Framework
2.explain how you will deal with the issues of: international and intercultural communications, global team structures, and collaborative relationships with other organizations in the particular project
3.The team and project manager roles & skillset [competency maps/leadership framework/Belbin roles] 

PLAN PART 3: Construct a Project Plan with objectives, a phase plan and collaboration tools and collaboration techniques as advised by Binder 
*Note: be careful that the type of plan you present is linked to the methodology you chose. For example, if you select a specific agile methodology your plan should be based on the type of iterations of this method. 
	
References: reports from industry or from organization/firm, company material and information from reputable sources (case studies, professional magazines articles etc.) and the sources from the models you use to conduct analysis 






3.Preparation for Assignment A (mandatory)

Students are advised to attend the workshops because the Assignment consists of the use of a series of tools, each tool belonging to a part of the Assignment. Please look at the table below to see which workshops correspond to which tools and which parts of the Assignment. 


Workshops	Section in Assignment A 	Tool to use	Workshop Session 
Find a project
	Introduction	Use the slides 	Session 1
Detect the challenges	Part 1	The Radar Chart 	Session 2 
Detect success factors	Part 1	The PIP 	Session 3
Describe the team competencies needed	Part 2	Competency map	Session 4
Design the project manager role & leadership	Part 2	leadership framework 	Session 5
Describe the teams’ behavioural roles	Part 2	Belbin team roles 	Session 6
Choose the way your teams will be creative	Part 2	Brainstorming Techniques 	Session 7
Describe the cultural differences and challenges in your project	Part 2	Hofstede cultural scores 	Session 8
Explain how you qill uaw technologies to deal with challenges	Part 3	Collaboration platforms	Session 9
 Design project plan for your presentation 	Part 3	Already known tools 	Session 10


In preparing for this assessment, teams will be able to undertake a series of formative exercises and gain feedback in response. Expectations concerning the presentation will be discussed in workshops, and teams will also be able to present ONE draft presentation plan for formative review on the final workshop on week 10.









As detailed as possible, explain step by step how to get this done