EPM955+-+Course+Work+Brief+-+Project+Inception,+Management,+Control+and+Risk+-+Oct+2023+(3)
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Module EPM955: Project Planning and Management
Coursework: Project Inception, Management, Control and Risk
Issued: 13 October 2023
Submission due:
08 December 2023
Instructions
•
This is a group assignment. Students are expected to undertake the assignment in teams of
three or four (maximum).
•
You have 8 weeks to complete the assignment because the questions relate to the topics
covered in lectures 1-8 of the module. You are therefore advised to work on the answers to
the questions progressively through the term as we cover the topics in the lectures.
•
You may choose to allocate questions to individual team members, but the team has
collective responsibility for the answers.
•
Marks for questions 1-6 will be awarded equally to all team members. Marks for the Peer
Review (Question 7) will be awarded individually.
•
Your answers must be specific to the development opportunity you choose.
•
Submissions must be made on Moodle and be capable of being printed.
•
Good presentation is a component of assessment. Please ensure you provide a contents list
and references to research material used.
•
Please limit your submission to 2000 words (excluding diagrams, spreadsheets and/or
charts)
•
This coursework assignment is worth 50% of the marks available for the module.
Assignment Brief
As the UK grows its economy again after several years of stagnation,
‘Getting
Britain Building
Again’
has become a political mantra for both main political parties. This signals a sustained period of
opportunity in construction
–
in the development of housing, commercial property, and
infrastructure in all regions of the UK.
In London, Transport for London (TfL) have an active programme for station oversite development as
can be seen in the following link
….
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-advertisers/communities
You are to imagine that you work for a design and project management organisation that has
entered into a partnership agreement with TfL with the objective of identifying and developing such
opportunities on TfL owned land either at, or adjacent to, a TfL station.
Your first task is to select a project
(from TfL’s list of
projects in the link above) that you consider
provides a good potential development opportunity that will deliver benefits for stakeholders, and in
this regard please answer Questions 1 and 2 below.
1.
Explain your choice of site, the type of development and opportunity and the reasons for
doing so.
(15% of marks)
2.
Identify the project
‘stakeholders’
and categorise them according to their interest and
influence on the proposals.
Prepare an outline Stakeholder Engagement Strategy and a
Communications Plan to ensure that the benefits of the proposals are clearly communicated
to all stakeholders and any concerns are mitigated as far as possible by the project team
(15% of marks)
If the project gets the go ahead your company will need to demonstrate its capacity and capability to
manage the project through to completion and for this, please demonstrate your understanding of
the key aspects of the assignment by responding to Questions 3 to 5 below.
3.
Prepare an initial Project Risk Register to identify, categorize and describe the key risks
specific to the Project. Use the Risk Register template on Moodle for this.
For each risk
identified
, assess the ‘probability’ (P) and ‘impact’ (I) of
the risk in terms of both cost and
schedule on a
‘
qualitative
’
basis using a 5x5 risk assessment matrix. C
alculate the ‘severity’
(S) of each risk (S=PxI). Sort the risks into rank order of severity and briefly describe risk
mitigation proposals for the top ten risks to either avoid, eliminate, or reduce the risk
exposure.
(15% of marks)
4.
Prepare an outline organisation structure (roles not numbers of people) for your Project
Management and Design team. Your
Project Manager will report to TfL’s Project Director
and the Project Board. Your organisation will provide all project management and technical
roles below the Project Manager. Your organisation structure should be appropriate for the
complexity of the work and scale of the project development.
(15% of marks)
5.
Describe with the aid of diagrams and tables (as appropriate) the Project Controls (and
reports) you would use and the reporting frequency.
(15% of marks)
As is often the case with development projects with many stakeholders
–
who may have competing
priorities and objectives
–
the following Question 6 is a scenario that must be addressed by the
project team during the preconstruction stage.
6.
An RIBA Stage 2 cost plan has been produced incorporating the architectural concept,
strategic civil and services engineering requirements, project strategies and outline
specification and has shown the scheme as designed exceeds the
client’s
budget. What
actions and alternatives are available to the project team to advise the client in respect of
the continuing viability of the scheme?
(15% of marks)
One of the key principles of Project Management is to ensure that we learn lessons from each
project to take with us to the next project or assignment. Peer review is a good way to reflect on the
things that went well and the things that could have been done better.
7.
Each team member is to provide an individual
‘peer review’
to reflect on the performance of
the team, how you worked together, and the individual performance of your other team
members
–
which will also be helpful for them. Please also describe how you planned and
allocated the work between team members; how you carried out and coordinated the work;
and the roles you played in reaching consensus on your answers.
(10% of marks)
Additional Notes
The following links provide further evidence of the scale of the development opportunities that TfL
are promoting on their land at (or near to) rail stations
•
From the International Railway Journal. 20 Feb 2023…..
https://www.railjournal.com/financial/tfl-selects-partner-to-develop-commercial-offices-
near-london-stations/
•
From the Evening Standard
, 10 Feb 2023…..
https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/where-to-live/new-homes-near-tube-
stations-tfl-developments-b1057597.html
•
A major redevelopment is also being proposed at Stratford Station with a Business Case
submission by TfL and it’s partners to the Department for Transport in August 2023, as
reported on the BBC website (and elsewhere). At this stage the project is mainly to do with
increasing station capacity rather than the development opportunities that this provides, so
it is not an example for you to choose for this coursework, but it is nevertheless a good
example of future development opportunity.
Stratford: Business case submitted to improve 'confusing' railway station - BBC News
•
The Crossrail Project (Elizabeth Line) has provided significant development opportunity for
oversite development at rail stations in London.
The following examples of developments at
Tottenham Court Road Station are provided to give an understanding of the type of
development that has taken place, to assist you with the assignment but not to be repeated
in your submission.
o
West - Dean Street entrance
–
retail and residential by Galliard.
TCRW Soho | W1D | Luxury Apartments | Galliard Homes
o
East
–
One Oxford Street - Office, retail and theatre development.
One Oxford Street (1oxfordstreet.london)
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