Corporate Financial Management Assignment

NZIM Diploma in Project Management Assignments

As an NZIM Diploma in Project Management (DPM) student, during the programme you are required to submit the following four assignments based on an actual project that you undertake outside the four two-day periods of classroom tuition:

1. Assignment One. To prepare a Project Charter, which is a written contract that sets out the project purpose, goal, parameters and other factors that once approved authorises the project manager to then plan the project execution in detail. To be submitted at the start of Module Two.
2. Assignment Two. To prepare a Project Plan that details how the project is to be undertaken, showing responsibilities, budgets, schedules, risk management measures and other information needed to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of the project. To be submitted at the start of Module Three.
3. Assignment Three. To maintain a dossier of project execution documentation, which includes progress reports, registers for changes, accidents, risks and issues, minutes of meetings, relevant email traffic etc. To be submitted together with Assignment Four within one month following Module Four.
4. Assignment Four. To prepare a comprehensive Post-project Report that objectively assesses project performance, documents lessons’ learned, and makes recommendations as appropriate. To be submitted together with Assignment Three within one month following Module Four.

Students often ask how long these assignment documents need be. Of course there is no definitive length, other than to say the assignments need to be of sufficient length to properly achieve their purpose. However, conciseness is appreciated, but not at the expense of clarity or completeness. Excluding cover, contents, amendment record pages and attachments, a Project Charter might achieve its purpose in no more than say six pages (A4 with size 12 font), a Project Plan about 20 pages, the record of project execution material could be contained in a large ring-binder folder, and a Post-project Report would not usually exceed 10 pages. To fulfil the Assignment Three requirement, copies of relevant documentation is best accumulated chronologically in a physical or electronic folder as the project proceeds. For these assignments if you are in doubt, it is usually better to include more material than not enough, and generally for assignment purposes do not refer to documents unless they are attached. All assignments may be submitted electronically as a pdf document or in hard copy.

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