PSB7010CL Strategic Project Management Assessment Learning Outcomes to be addressed: L01. Critically examine the strategic importance of projects to organisations and develop effective project
PSB7010CL Strategic Project Management Individual Assignment Brief 2026 | PSB Academy
| Academic Year | 2026 |
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| Module: Strategic Project Management (PSB7010CL) |
| Cohort: PTMBA GB |
| Assignment Number and Weighting: Strategic Project Management Report (100%) |
| Assessment is made up of multiple submissions: No |
| Submission Procedure: Electronically via Blackboard (Turnitin) |
| Word Count: Project Management Report (4,000 word) +/- 10% |
| Assignment Title: Individual Written Report |
PSB7010CL Strategic Project Management
Assessment Learning Outcomes to be addressed:
- L01. Critically examine the strategic importance of projects to organisations and develop effective project strategies in line with the international environments and business strategies.
- L02. Systematically appraise the key constraints impacting projects, including time, cost, quality and risks and manage these constraints appropriately.
- L03. Critically evaluate and devise effective management solutions and approaches for stakeholder engagement and project success.
- L04. Apply knowledge and skills of managing a diverse team to ensure project coherence across a range of business functional areas, taking responsibility, where relevant, for the work and roles of others.
Details of the Task:
You are expected to research a project and demonstrate your understanding of strategic project management in the private or public sector. Based on the research case study project from a chosen company, you need to develop the following:
- Organisation (e.g. culture) and project background
- Business case
- Project organisation structure
- Scope management
- Schedule management
- Cost management
- Stakeholder and communications management
- Resource management
- Risk management
- Project Control System
- Critical reflection on the project
Your written report should:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the scale and scope of project management in private and public sectors.
- Critically discuss how the project team has been structured and organised
- Identify potential resource conflicts, their importance in meeting project costs and schedule objectives.
- Evaluate a strategy to ensure effective use of resources, assets and people within the project.
- Evaluate project management tools and methods.
- Identify project control systems that ensure an effective project management approach.
- Ensure project coherence across a range of business functional areas.
- Provide a project portfolio with supporting evidence (e.g. meeting minutes, presentation slides, records, documentations)
Other Information:
Report Deliverables:
- This report should be composed with 4,000 words +/-10% allowances.
- Word count must be indicated on the first page.
- Word count excludes Table of Contents and Reference List.
- A written report shall be word processed with Arial or Times New Roman font type, size 12, 1.5 line spaced and overall margin 2.5cm; include relevant charts, diagrams, graphs, images and/ or tabulations.
- A written report must be supported with a variety of sources; citations and references must adhere to the APA Referencing System. Minimum of 20 peer-reviewed academic journal articles.
- A recognisable filename must be used to upload into the TurnItIn for plagiarism inspection, for instance, “Student CU ID_CompanyName”.
- A failing grade will be awarded for a student who fails to submit on time.
- Allowance for plagiarism is 15% and below, excluding the list of references. Should there be any instances where the plagiarism is above 15%, a low grade or a fail grade will be awarded.
Marking Rubrics for Coursework per attached.
7010 Project Management (Coursework, 100%)
| CRITERIA / DESCRIPTION | LO | Weight | No attempt, No submission, Absent | Poor, unsatisfactory, weak | Inadequate, incomplete, limited | Basic, satisfactory, acceptable | Reasonable, fair, appropriate | Competent, commendable, effective | Strong, proficient, very good | Articulated, highly impressive, excellent | Superb, outstanding, original | Faultless, publishable, industry standard |
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| Cognitive (thinking) Skills: Critically review the scope and strategy of the project, including a detailed WBS. | LO3,4 | 10% | No attempt (see grade descriptor). | Unsatisfactory review on project scope and stragety. WBS has only the top level activities or is unstructured. | Inadequate review on project scope and stragety.WBS lacks details in showing the necessary tasks of the project. | Basic review on project scope and strategy.WBS lacks details in showing the necessary tasks of the project. | Reasonable review on project scope and strategy with sufficient details.WBS is reasonably structured with most activities. | Effective review on project scope and strategy. WBS demonstrates all the necessary activities of the project which are organised in (at least 3) different levels. | Very good review on project scope and strategy, covering all key aspects of the project. WBS is well structured with all activities. | Excellent review on project scope and strategy with good details and supporting evidence /discussions. WBS demonstrates all the necessary activities of the project which are organised in different levels and shows paralleled activities on each level. | Outstanding review on project scope and strategy with good details and supporting evidence /discussions. WBS demonstrates all the necessary activities which are organised in different levels and contains cost and resource allocation. | Critical review on project scope and strategy with good details and supporting evidence /discussions. WBS professionally demonstrates all the necessary activities which are organised in different levels and contains cost and resource allocation. |
| Knowledge and Understanding, Cognitive (thinking) Skills: : Critically discuss how the project team has been structured and organised | LO3,4 | 10% | No attempt (see grade descriptor). | Fail to illustrate any specific project management structure that can be used. | Limited knowledge or understanding of the structures available to be adopted.Inadequate discussion on the structure and organisation of the team. | Identify or suggest the possible structure for the projects with basic justifications. | Identify or suggest a suitable structure for the projects with reasonable justifications. | Identify or suggest the most relevant or suitable structure for the project with effective justification and clear explanations. | Identify or suggest the most relevant or suitable structure for the project with strong justification and detailed explanations. | Identify or suggest the most relevant or suitable structure for the project providing excellent justification and detailed discussions. | Identify or suggest the most suitable structure providing excellent justification, detailed discussions, and OBS. | Identify or suggest the most relevant or suitable structure for the project providing sufficient evidence, faultless justification, and professionally constructed OBS clearly showing responsibilities. |
| Cognitive (thinking) Skills: Critically discuss how key stakeholders have been managed, and present the communication plan implemented during the project | LO3,4 | 10% | No attempt (see grade descriptor). | Only identify some of the key stakeholders with no discussion on their interest and management strategy.Communication plan is missing. | Identify some stakeholders with limited discussion on their interest and management strategy. Communication plan is either missing or very limited. | Identify most key stakeholders with basic discussion on their interest and management strategy. Communication plan is acceptable. | Identify most key stakeholders with reasonable discussion on their interest and management strategy. Communication plan is appropriate. | Identify all the key stakeholders with good discussion on their interest and management strategy.Communication plan is effective. | Identify all the key stakeholders with good discussion on their interest and management strategy.Communication plan is highly effective in implementing stakeholder strategy. | Identify all the key stakeholders with excellent discussion on their interest and management strategy.Develop effective, consistent and detailed communication plan. | Identify all the key stakeholders with outstanding discussion on their interest and management strategy.Develop effective, comprehensive and detailed communication plan. | Identify all the key stakeholders with professional discussion on their interest and management strategy.Develop effective, comprehensive and faultless communication plan. |
| 4 Pracitical and Transferrable Skills: Develop a risk management plan for the project | LO4 | 10% | No attempt (see grade descriptor). | Fail to identify major risks in the project or only mention it in general terms. | Only identify some of the risks in the project with very limited discussion. | Identify some risks in the project with basic assessment. | Identify most risks in the project with appropriate evaluation on their impacts and probabilities. | Identify most major risks for the project with effective evaluation on their impacts and probability. Suggest proper strategies to manage risks. | Identify most major risks for the project with effective evaluation on their impacts and probability. Suggest proper strategies to manage risks with reasonable action plans. | Identify all major risks for the project with critical assessment and comprehensive managing strategies and action plans. | Identify all major risks for the project with outstanding assessment and comprehensive managing strategies and action plans. | risks for the project with faultless critical assessment and comprehensive managing strategies and action plans.Review their performance and make recommendations. |
| Cognitive (thinking) Skills, Pracitical Skills: Use suitable tools to develop a detailed project plan (including Network Diagram and Critical Path Analysis). | LO4 | 10% | No attempt (see grade descriptor). | Poorly constructed network diagram. Only a limited number of tasks are demonstrated by using Project Management Software (due to the poorly defined WBS). | An incomplete or incorrect network diagram with mistakes in calculating the critical path. | The network diagram is logically structured and demonstrates a series of tasks by using Project Management Software. Critical path calculation has mistakes or is not shown clearly. | The network diagram is logically structured and demonstrates a series of tasks by using Project Management Software. The critical path is clearly indicated with reasonable analysis. | The network diagram logically and neatly demonstrates series of tasks by using Project Management Software. The critical path is clearly indicated with effective analysis. | The network diagram has logically and neatly demonstrated series of tasks by using Project Management Software.Critical path is clearly indicated with very good analysis. | The network diagram logically and clearly demonstrated dependencies of all the key tasks by using Project Management Software and optimised with constraints in reality. Critical path is clearly indicated with no mistakes |
