General Assessment CriteriaIncomprehensible submissions. Assessments provide the opportunity for students todemonstrate their knowledge and skills to achieve the required standard. To do this, assessmentresponses need to be both clear and easy to understand. If not, the University cannot determinethat students have demonstrated their knowledge and skills. Assessments will, therefore, bemarked according to the marking criteria (accompanied by the marking rubric). Failing to meetthe requirements may result in 0 (zero) marks where relevant.Word count limit (excluding references and appendix). Your submission should be madeusing a Microsoft WORD document of 2,500 – 3,000 words. Text length less than 2500 wordswill be penalised by 5% of the total available marks while text beyond the 3000 word limit willattract a penalty as follows:? 3001 – 3300 words: 5 marks? 3301 – 3600 words: 10 marks? more than 3601 words: 15 marksLate penalty. Late submissions will attract penalties at 5% for each calendar day or part thereofthat it is late of the total available mark for the individual assessment item. This means that, foran assessment worth 40 marks, the mark that you earn is reduced by 2 marks each calendar daythat the assessment is late (including part-days and weekends). See s4.58 in the AssessmentPolicy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).Check with marking criteria. Before submitting your assignment you should check it againstthe assessment criteria and the marking rubric included in this specification to ensure that youhave satisfactorily addressed all the criteria that will be used to mark your assignment.Assessment1PPMP20009 Leading Lean Projects Term 1, 2019Page 2 of 6Academic language. All submissions should be thoroughly proof-read for spelling,typographical or grammatical errors before being submitted. Do not reply on the ‘spell-check’function in your word processing program. If, for example, ‘affect’ is substituted for ‘effect’,your program may not detect the error.Academic IntegrityAll assignments will be checked for plagiarism (material copied from other students and/ormaterial copied from other sources) using TurnItIn (TII). If you are found to have plagiarisedmaterial or if you have used someone else’s words without appropriate referencing, you willbe penalised for plagiarism which could result in 0 (zero) marks for the whole assignment. Insome circumstances a more severe penalty may be imposed. The link to the University’sAcademic Misconduct Procedures is available in the unit profile.IntroductionYou are one of the directors in a major project management consultancy. Your consultancywants to undertake government work but has been informed that it needs to show use of “LeanProject Management (LPM)” principles in its project management processes before being ableto apply for any government work. The board of directors has decided, therefore, that they needto introduce LPM principles in all future projects in order to eventually be eligible forgovernment work.Your tasksThe Board of Directors has chosen you to be in charge of implementing the LPM approach.This assessment, therefore, is to be done INDIVIDUALLY.As the Director in charge, your task is to write a memo to all staff informing them about thedecision and the proposed implementation process for LPM.Your memo must:1. Address the initial reason for implementing LPM2. Describe the benefits that can be gained by the various stakeholders in a project fromimplementing LPM3. Describe the Critical Success Factors (CSF) needed to be in place within theconsultancy organisation to achieve successful implementation of LPM4. Describe the steps by which you propose to ensure CSF are in place and how toachieve the LPM mindset within the consultancy staff5. List and describe training requirements for individual staff6. Describe your method to assess when the consultancy has sufficiently adopted theLPM approach to be able to tender for government work
