Question 1

Step 1:

Identify ANY three real-life projects, preferably from your professional working environment. These can involve your own work or work in the department in which you are employed.

Tips for choosing your projects:

• The most suitable projects are those that you might, reasonably, have authority and agency over. This ensures you will have a more detailed understanding of any complexities involving stakeholders, formal and informal authorities, and issues of power and interest.
• The projects need to focus on areas that could provide improvements in your department in terms of quality of work, working processes and efficiencies, or the customer/client experience.
• You will not be required to actually execute the project.

Ethical and confidentiality declaration:

• For ethical and confidentiality reasons, you will need to replace the real name of your organisation, and possibly department, with a fictitious name.
• You must also not use the real names of people in the organisation, or customers, clients or external organisations.

Required:

1.1 Provide a statement in which you explain the reasons for confidentiality considerations (including that the real organisations and all stakeholders have been replaced).

Step 2:

Write two paragraphs for each of the projects you identified in step 1.

• The first paragraph should explain the project holistically and provide a motivation for your choice of project.
• The second paragraph should provide financial aspects of each project, which you will use to evaluate and compare their viability.