Project Management

Task

A Restaurant have an interest in creating a new grading system for their customers. This is critical as the restaurant wants to delivery high standard satisfaction
outcomes to improve and standardize the quality of the service they deliver and to have the possibility to partnership with other restaurants in the region. The
new system ideally should assess fairly the waiters and waitresses, the cooks, and the suppliers.
• Analyze the main clients and stakeholders (restaurants, customers, suppliers) and build a research method to assess the actual picture of satisfaction of
all stockholders. This method will assess the new grading system as soon as the project is put into practice in the restaurant.
• Identify and prepare the information to convince your boss that your project makes sense, and it is necessary to put into practice. You need to be
convincing.
• Create a project team: tell how you are going to create your team and how you will coordinate it.
• Build up a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with all the tasks and their duration, resources needed and predecessors.
• Establish a Project Timing and determine how long will be the project and the critical path.
• Estimate a Project Budget (and a justification).
• Close the project and assess on the risks of failure.
Formalities
• Individual work.
• Minimum length of the assignment 1500 words – Maximum 2500 words.
• Relate your work to the concepts delivered in class.
• Font: Arial 12,5pts. Line-spacing: default. Text-align: Justified.
• Bibliography/References, if needed, has to be quoted in Harvard style.
• You may use Appendixes. These and the References do not count for the total wordcount.

DELIVERY: WEEK 6 – Submission on Moodle 7

th March 2021, at 23:59 CET.
This task is worth 40% of your overall grade for this subject.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Describe the need for a project-based approach inside organizations.
• Understand the role of project management as a strategic element inside organizations.
• Critically assess the roles and responsibilities of a project manager
• Evaluate how to select, develop, plan, schedule and measure its outcomes and risks.
Rubrics
Exceptional
90-100
Good
80-89
Fair
70-79
Fail
<70
Critical analysis
(25%)
Student effectively
assesses the impact of
project on the
company. Student
engages with
theory/data in a
critical manner.
Student fairly assesses
the impact of project
on the company.
Students attempt to
engage with
theory/data in a
critical manner.
Student fairly assesses the
impact of project on the
company, although some key
aspects might be missing.
Student may be unsuccessful
in attempts to engage
critically with theory/data.
Student fail to assesses the impact of
project on the company, although
some key aspects might be missing.
Student makes no attempt to engage
with theory/data in a critical
manner.
Critical evaluation
(25%)
Student effectively
engages in critical
evaluation of all
aspects presented in
the brief.
Student makes a good
attempt at engaging in
critical evaluation of
most aspects
presented in the brief.
Student makes a fair attempt
at engaging in critical
evaluation of some aspects
presented in the brief
(argument might be weak).
Student makes an insufficient
attempt to critically evaluate aspects
presented in the brief.
Critical discussion &
formulation of
solutions
(25%)
Student effectively
leads discussion
towards strong
theory/data-driven
solutions.
Student makes a good
attempt at leading
discussion towards
theory/data-driven
solutions.
Student makes a fair attempt
at leading discussion
towards theory/data-driven
solutions.
Student fails to lead discussion
towards relevant solutions.
Communication
(25%)
Student includes all
relevant sections,
meeting professional
standards of
presentation. Correct
referencing format.
Student includes all
relevant sections, but
falls short of
professional standards
of presentation.
Largely correct
referencing format.
Student includes most
relevant sections, but falls
short of professional
standards of presentation.
Some incorrect referencing.
Student fails to submit several
relevant sections and/or falls
significantly short of professional
presentation standards. Largely
incorrect referencing format