BBA222 PROJECT MANAGEMENT – Task brief & rubrics

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Description:
• Individual task.
• You have to create your proposal on an ideal Graduation Ceremony to be held next year (your future graduation).
• In your proposal you have to use all material discussed in class to assess the future role of professional Project Manager.
• You must show engagement with the topics learned in class, in particular: formulate the proposal, make teams with people from your class, create WBS,
work packages, make estimations of time, resources and budget, identify sensitive activities/risks, create AON, calculate the total duration of your project
and demonstrate your project on Gantt chart calendar.
• You should make references to real names (people, places, etc.) to elaborate your work.
• You may quote relevant publications, such as academic journals and books, to support your arguments and conclusions.

Formalities:
• Wordcount: From 1500 to 2500 words.
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
• Text alignment: Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

Assignment Launch: Week 10.

Submission: Week 13 – Via Moodle (Turnitin). Submission will be accepted all Week 13: From the 4th to the 10th of May at 23:59hrs (Barcelona’s time).

Weight: This task is a 30% of your total grade for this subject.

Outcomes: This task 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 Good Fair Marginal fail
90-100 80-89 70-79 60-69
Knowledge & Student demonstrates Student demonstrates good Student understands the task Student understands the task
Understanding excellent understanding of key understanding of the task and and provides minimum theory and attempts to answer the
(20%) concepts and uses vocabulary mentions some relevant and/or some use of question but does not mention
in an entirely appropriate concepts and demonstrates use vocabulary. key concepts or uses minimum
manner. of the relevant vocabulary. amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application Student applies fully relevant
(30%) knowledge from the topics
delivered in class.
Student applies mostly relevant
knowledge from the topics
delivered in class.
Student applies some relevant
knowledge from the topics
delivered in class.
Misunderstanding may be
evident.
Student applies little relevant
knowledge from the topics
delivered in class.
Misunderstands are evident.

Creativity Student shows creative Student shows creative insights Student shows a little bit of Student shows no trace of
(30%) insights in excellent ways, in a good manner, proposing creative insights, proposing creative insights. Paths of
proposing exciting paths of interesting paths of action. some paths of action. actions may be inadequate.
action.

Communication Student communicates their
(20%) ideas extremely clearly and
concisely, respecting word
count, grammar and
spellcheck
Student communicates their
ideas clearly and concisely,
respecting word count,
grammar and spellcheck
Student communicates their
ideas with some clarity and
concision. It may be slightly over
or under the wordcount limit.
Some misspelling errors may be
evident.
Student communicates their
ideas in a somewhat unclear and
unconcise way. Does not reach
or does exceed wordcount
excessively and misspelling
errors are evident.