Understood and read the unit competency and the assessment plan

Candidate to complete SECTION A and all ASSESSMENT ITEMS and submit this entire document.

SECTION B – ASSESSOR to complete

ASSESSMENT PLAN

 Please read/review all the learning materials for the Unit. Please ask your Trainer for assistance at any stage during your training program. After reviewing the learning materials, you will be ready to undertake the assessments for this unit.

 For your assessment, you should have received an ‘Assessment Pack’ that includes: 1. Assessment Booklet (this document)
2. Study Materials

 Please submit your completed assessment as directed by your Trainer/Assessor. Your Assessor will review your work and grant you a ‘COMPETENT’ or ‘NOT YET COMPETENT’ overall grade for the Unit of competency.

 You need to achieve a ‘Satisfactory’ level in each of the Assessments Items to be granted an overall ‘Competent’ grade in the Unit.

APPEALS

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1. What is a project?

An individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.

4. What is the purpose of a project charter?

Project charter is a statement of the scope, objectives and participants in a project. It provides a preliminary delineation of roles and responsibilities, describes the project objectives, identifies the main stakeholders, and defines the authority of the project manager. It serves as an authoritative reference for the future of the project.

The main purpose of a WBS is to reduce complicated activities to a collection of tasks. This is important for the project manager because she can oversee the tasks more effectively than the complex activities.

10. How can a project manager create a winning working environment?

• Plenty of regular informal constructive feedback.

12. What should a project manager monitor within a project?

14. Explain what project closure is and the steps that need to be taken for closure and review?

The Project Closure Phase is the fourth and last phase in the you will formally close your project and then report its overall level of success to your project life cycle. In this phase, sponsor. Project Closure involves handing over the deliverables to your customer, passing the documentation to the business, cancelling supplier contracts, releasing staff and equipment, and informing stakeholders of the closure of the project. The first step taken when closing a project is to create a Project Closure Report extremely important that you list every activity required to close the project within this Project Closure report, to ensure that project closure is completed smoothly and efficiently.

It is important to have a working knowledge of the legislation related to your business so that with every move your business makes, you can ensure that you are complying with the laws of the country. Complying with the law means you won't face long and costly legal battles in the FUTURE and, perhaps most importantly, you won't provide shoddy goods and services to customers and you won't mistreat your employees.

16. Provide and explain two names of legislation that may impact on project management plans.

ASSESSMENT 2 - Practical Application

Please read the case study below. You are required to plan and manage a conference. This is a big project and you need to follow project
management principles to manage an effective conference.

The Minister’s Office wants you to ensure that there is a projector available for his speech. They also want you to make sure that a video recording device is available, so the Minister’s speech is recorded in full. On Saturday and Sunday, the attendees can attend options sessions that will run concurrently in 4 different rooms.

A total of 150 invitees, 50% male and 50% female are expected including interstate and overseas franchisees and invited delegates. The budget for the event is $75,000. The event will be funded by the head office in Brisbane. The head office will cover all expenses for all the delegates; however the 100 franchisees will be paying for their own travel and accommodation costs.

You are required to look after the following:

Assessment 2 (cont’d) Develop a Project Brief/ Conference Concept Plan

1. Read the case study carefully and complete the following table:

4. List the major tasks (Work Breakdown Structure) involved in the project in the order they

ensure that you deal effectively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. (ie:

food, dress code, etc)