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PM - Coursework - Autumn 2010
PM - Coursework - Autumn 2010
of Business &
Finance (LSBF)
Module Project Management
Assignment Briefing Sheet Autumn 2010
You must submit an electronic copy of your work. Your submission will be
electronically checked.
Harvard The Harvard Referencing System must be used. The Wikipedia website must not
Referencing be referenced in your work.
Your Task Task 1 – Project Management of the Opening Ceremony of the 2014
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
For Task 1 of this assignment, you should assume that you have been appointed as
Senior Project Manager by the official Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
Organising Committee.
You have been tasked with project managing the organisation and
implementation of the opening ceremony for the 2014 Commonwealth
Games on Wednesday 23rd July 2014. The opening ceremony is to be held at Celtic
Park football stadium, which located in the East End of Glasgow, and is the highest
capacity stadium in the city, accommodating 60,000 spectators in its current layout.
You are to write a professional report for the board of Glasgow 2014
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, consisting of both Tasks 1a and
1b as below.
Task 1a of your report should contain your recommended project plan for the
Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. Task 1a should include the following
sections:-
This task is separate to Task 1. For Task 2, you should critically reflect on your
own personal achievement of only one of the module learning outcomes
(as listed in Appendix 1). You should avoid simply being descriptive; rather you
should be reflective and critical, e.g. rather than just describing the subject matter,
instead try to link your current understanding to previous knowledge, knowledge
acquired in other modules, by personal research, readings and in discussions. You
should aim to answer the following questions:-
What were your expectations at the start of the module?
What experience did you bring to the module in the context of the
learning outcomes?
How has this experience been used to achieve the learning outcome?
Comment on your views on the process i.e. what have you done,
how has the process helped your learning (focus on your learning,
rather than the delivery of the material)?
Assess what prior knowledge and skill the learning outcome assumed
you had?
Critically comment on how you have changed or are likely to change
as a result of this learning?
Comment on how you felt when you were undergoing the process of
learning?
Consider what questions you now have concerning the learning
outcome and what actions you are going to take to address them?
You may draw upon examples from the case studies explored on the module and
from your current and previous work experience for either of the above responses.
There are a number of articles and publications on the topic of critical reflective
writing on the internet which may help you. Examples include the following:-
http://ezinearticles.com/?Reflective-Writing-For-Students&id=4074660
http://studyskills.suite101.com/article.cfm/reflective-writing-for-college-students
References should mainly consist of academic sources from the online library and
textbooks, with limited reference to Internet articles. Unreliable Internet sources
such as Wikipedia must not be used.
Assignment content must not be directly plagiarised from any sources – all content
must be discussed in the candidate’s own words and correctly referenced. Any part
of the assignment where plagiarism is detected will automatically received 0%.
Word count should be shown at the end of each of the tasks in the assignment.
Word count required is advised above.
Originality, quality of argument and structure are required for this assignment.
Candidates should demonstrate that they can understand, discuss and apply
relevant consumer behaviour course theory in a mature and critical manner.
The feedback you are given will General comments and advice on how to improve your work in the future
be informed by each of the
marking criteria overleaf. Text
Marks are arrived at through
markers’ holistic judgement,
informed by the criteria
Fail Pass
0–29% 30–39% 40-49% 50-59% 60-69% 70+%
1 Research Little or no evidence of Information presented Adequate research has Information is accurate Well informed Extensive independent
Systematic appropriate research does not relate been carried out and and from a range of judgements made of research, accuracy, familiarity
identification and sufficiently to the task; appropriate information sources, with evidence the relative value of with the material, and sound
investigation of there may be evidence has been gathered and of some analysis and connected information judgments
appropriate sources of rudimentary research documented from evaluation from a wide range of
readily available academic sources
sources applying
standard techniques