Overview
Students will form into groups of four members to perform this assignment. Groups will be formed in the Week 5 tutorial in discussion with your tutor. You need to attend the tutorials to ensure that you are placed into a group and to work on tasks related to the assessment with your group members during the tutorials. Students who do not attend tutorials with relevant assessment tasks may miss out on the marks associated with that task in the assessment. As a group you will discuss the case studies the group members have each prepared. You will then decide on which case study your group will continue to work on using project prioritisation.
The assessment asks you to then describe and justify your prioritisation process. You will then need to consider the characteristics of productive teams, and how using Agile project management tools and techniques can assist in this respect. Your group will then choose one that you will use to assist you to successfully complete the group assessment. Your group will start using this tool and will be asked to reflect on whether it did in fact help with your group work.
As a group you will apply relevant unit theory including Lean leadership and quality control to the case study you have prioritised. You will be provided with a template to capture your process, responses and reflections. You must demonstrate critical reflection in linking relevant theory to the case study and your practical application of the Agile tool or technique whilst completing the assessment.
As the assessment contains both practical and theoretical elements it is important that you attend the tutorials to ensure that you understand assessment requirements to be able to demonstrate the concepts being assessed. Criteria and marking breakdown Your work will be assessed based on the quality, level of professionalism, thoroughness, consistency and proper application of tools/techniques thought in the unit. The allocated marks are as below
• Project Prioritisation (2 marks) • Characteristics of Highly Functioning Teams (2 marks) • Team Issues and Mitigation (4 marks) • Agile tool/techniques and how you would use it as a team (2 marks) • Lean Leadership Principles (15 marks) • Value Stream Map and Value Improvement (6 marks) • Quality control tools for Lean (4 marks) • Retrospective (S marks)