Report Writing 19

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Question Description
You are to imagine that you are part of a junior engineering team assigned by the management of an engineering firm to produce a report discussing the implementation plan for a proposed project. You will need to do the following:

Select an engineering based project (either an existing one or one created by you).
Evaluate current industry best practices as they relate to organisational and project management in medium and large scale engineering enterprises.
Research new engineering and project management approaches and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.
Prepare the following:
Provide recommendations for this case study as informed by your research into industry best practice (in particular, using project management tools/processes)
Write a 15 to 20 page report addressed to the management of the Engineering firm according to the following structure:

A full scope (review the project charter document as a starting point)
A complete work breakdown structure (WBS) including cost and duration estimates for all work packages
A complete PERT chart with a clear indication of the critical path and possible slack/float times.
Executive Summary
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Clear description of the project
Section 3: Analysis of charts
Section 4: Discussion of current industry best practices, and new engineering and project management approaches
Section 5: Conclusion and recommendations
Section 6: Challenges faced in producing the required information, strategies for overcoming the challenges and lessons learnt;
Section 7: Demonstrated competencies (outlined in the Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers) you believe you have shown, and the extent to which you have demonstrated these in preparing this report
Reference list; and
Appendices that include the following deliverables: WBS, Gantt and PERT charts and scope/other documents used.

A Gantt chart identifying task interdependencies and milestones
See Appendix 3 for Assignment 2 Group Report Marking Rubric.

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