Review of project operations management

To assess your skills, knowledge and ability to review the management processes associated with a building and construction project.

This assessment task accounts for 50% of your total assessment.

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Assessment task

For this assessment task, you are required to contact a building organisation to discuss a project they have undertaken. You are then required to write a report evaluating the processes that enable the project manager to:

• effectively and efficiently procure resources
• communicate effectively both verbally, and in writing, with suppliers and subcontractors
• complete documentation to organisational standards
• deal with variations to contracts
• implement effective processes for maintaining site safety and managing risks.

In your report, you are also required to provide information to answer the followig questions about the project:

• What factors have the potential to impact on progress of the project?
• What strategies are in place to deal with these impacts?
• How is stakeholder involvement obtained and maintained throughout the project?
• How has the construction plan changed throughout the project?
• What lessons have been learned?
• Have the objectives been met?
• What could have been done differently?
• What makes the project management effective or ineffective?