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Individual Research Report: How projects can be managed to enhance success.
The effectiveness of projects is partly concerned with how people fit in and contribute to the success
of the project. This means there may be synergies in group decision making compared to individual
decision making. To assist you in your research assignment you can draw on the workshop exercises
done in each lecture and your project group work. You can collaborate in discussing your research
with your study team but the assignment is an individual submission in report format using the VU
Harvard (Aust 2010) style.
Assignment task: To research and report on how projects can be managed to enhance their prospect
of success. This is to be done by:
1. Reading and reviewing the latest literature. (Literature review 20%)
(but not limiting yourself to a single source of information i.e. only books, journals or www)
2. Identify and discuss cases of project. (Cases study 20%)
3. Discuss why these projects succeeded or failed. (Analysis 20%)
4. Recommendations for making future projects successful. (Recommendations 20%)
5. Write this as a professional formal business report with all appropriate headings, spelling,
references and minimal similarity. (Professional report 20%)
This assignment is an individual assignment submission which can be used as support material (but
not copied) for the Group Research Project presentations.
The report must be submitted through the dropbox in VU Collaborate and a hard copy to the
lecturer/coordinator by the due date.
Late submissions incur a 10% penalty per day and no submissions are accepted after 1 week.