Context You are working as a project team member in a project management office (PMO) and the manager of the PMO has asked you to participate in a review of one of the organisation’s project’s...

Context You are working as a project team member in a project management office (PMO) and the manager of the PMO has asked you to participate in a review of one of the organisation’s project’s approach to project delivery (this project review will form part of your assignment 2 so you should consider your selection of a suitable project before you commence assignment 1). 2 Your task • Your task is to carry out a survey of the literature* on ‘project delivery’ to inform the review. You are looking for contemporary and seminal literature* on this topic which is relevant to the sector of your organisation/project types. In your search for literature* you will find the following search areas necessary for structuring your review: Project requirements and deliverables; Whole-of-life considerations of projects; The project legal environment, probity and ethics; Alternative procurement strategies • In the overall format of a report (see report structure below), you will discuss this literature*, considering its strengths, weaknesses and relevance to your organisation’s projects. • Also in the report you will make a recommendation on how this literature* review can inform the organisation on its approach to project delivery. The total length of your assignment 1 is to be approx. 2000 words. Please follow general formatting guidelines as outlined in the Communication Skills Handbook (Summers & Smith 2014). Remember that the assignments in the project management courses require referencing to use Harvard AGPS6 formatting and not APA. Please refer to the USQ Harvard Referencing Guide (https://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing/harvard-agps-referencingguide ) for referencing guidance. Using the incorrect referencing format could lose marks. Report structure For assignment 1, provide the following: Mark sheet/rubric (see separate mark sheet and rubric) Report cover sheet Executive summary (200 - 300 words – not included in word count) Table of contents, List of Tables (if required), List of Figures (if required) 1. Introduction (150 words) Introduce the purpose of your report and its structure. 2. Organisational context (200 words) In this section, describe the organisational and project context for which you are preparing the report. You can base this on a PMO with which you have experience or on a case study taken from the literature. Include details of the project you are assisting to review: the number of people involved, duration, budget, sector and any major issues being experienced. 3. Literature review (900 words) • Structure this section in the following 4 parts: o Project requirements and deliverables; o Whole-of-life considerations of projects; o The project legal environment, probity and ethics; o Alternative procurement strategies • You can support your literature review with tables and figures. 3 • Summarise, compare and contrast the literature* you have found which is relevant to these topics and the domain of the organisation/project/projects. Select the most relevant and reliable 3 or 4 peer-reviewed journal articles/scholarly book chapters per topic (i.e. total reviewed 7 – 8 pieces of literature). • Ensure you explicitly justify why your choice of literature* is reliable (e.g. date of publication, whether it has been peer-reviewed and is based on evidence) and discuss the relevance in terms of strengths and weaknesses of the argument (e.g. is the research study focused on an sector/industry similar to your organisation?). • Use sign-posts to increase the readability of your review. Sign-posts demonstrate to the marker that you are addressing the requirements. Examples of sign-posts include: o The weaknesses of Smith’s (2018) article is… [as highlighting “weaknesses” is a requirement of the task.] o Smith (2018) compared to Brown (2019)… [as “comparing” is a requirement of the task] o Smith’s (2018) study is of greater relevance than Brown’s (2019) because… [as assessing “relevancy” is a requirement of the task] (note: don’t use italics in your paragraphs to show sign-posts. The examples about we just to draw your attention to the concept) • You can support your literature review with tables and figures. 4. Recommendations (500 words) • Based on your review of the literature*, suggest the approach to project delivery that should be used by the organisation’s projects (or specific project). Justify your recommendation (based on your review) – what are the expected benefits from adopting the recommendations. • You can support your recommendation with tables and figures to justify your selection and/or to demonstrate the use of the recommended tool or process. 5. Conclusions (150 words) • Summarise your findings (i.e. what did you discover from conducting the literature review?).