ME50399 Project and change management in a rapidly evolving sector
Summative Assessment
Project and change management report
• Submission Date: Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00 via online Moodle submission portal
• Feedback Date: Thursday, 19 June 2025
• Unit Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) Addressed:
• Define the importance of project and change management
• Apply and adapt the tools of project management to a given project, using an appropriate lifecycle approach
• Outline alternate models of project management
• Apply and adapt concepts, models and tools to project management scenarios
• Conduct research into an aspect of project and change management linking theory and practice
• Summative Assessment Weighting: 100 %
• AI Category: B
• Maximum word count / page length guide: 2,000 words (+/- 10 %).
o Summary, tables and figures (and relative captions), table of contents, lists of figures and tables, appendices and references are excluded from the word count. Footnotes or endnotes are included in the word count
o Submissions exceeding the word count will attract penalties according to current University of Bath regulations (QA16 paragraph 10.3)
Assessment Brief:
Working individually, you are challenged to propose a project to respond to a challenge you have identified within an automotive organisation of your choice. The project could be to do with implementing an organisational change or developing a new product, process or service. The format should be that of a business report. This means that professional layout and business language is expected.
You should start by introducing the company and the challenge you are trying to solve. You must define project management and explain its significance to the project, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in the context of the project. You must provide an empirical overview of the broader importance of project management (and, if relevant to the project, organisational change) in the context of similar projects or in the automotive industry more generally.
Your assignment should present a fully completed project charter that summarises your project. Each section should be completed to a high standard.
In addition, you are required to choose one of the following options and develop it in the context of your project:
• High-level stakeholder engagement plan, including stakeholder analysis and communication strategy.
• A work breakdown structure, presenting the entire scope of the project.
• Activities network for one task, time estimates using PERT and identification of the critical path.
• Risk analysis of 5 risks, including risk management strategies and, where relevant, EMV calculation.
• Organisational change vision and implementation plan.
Finally, your assignment should critically assess the efficacy of the project charter and the additional tool of your choice, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses in the context of the project and recommending other tools and approaches to overcome these. You must support your arguments with findings from existing academic research.
Report Content and Structure
The recommended structure for this report is:
• Introduction
• Project Charter
• Additional tool of choice
• Critique and recommendations