Culminating Experience Action Research Projects

Assignment Task

Select a project to investigate. It should be a ‘real’ project; one that has a purpose you can investigate. It can be either a current or completed project, for which you can readily get information. If you are not currently involved in a project as a team member, then you must find one that you have permission to study (collect data and interview people) as an ‘outsider’.

The project should include a project team (minimum of five people) with a project leader, and be at least two or three months in duration. It should also have a specific goal in terms of a target completion date, a budget limit and a specified end-item result or product. It should be noted that general larger projects afford better opportunity to observe the concepts of project management than smaller ones.

If you are studying a project as an outsider, it is also a good idea to do it in a team with three to six people and an appointed team leader (i.e. perform the study using a team). This, in essence, becomes your project team – organised for the purpose of studying a project. You can then readily apply many of the planning, organising, team-building and other procedures discussed throughout the module as practice and to see how they work. This ‘hands-on’ experience with your own team, combined with what you learn from the project you are studying, will give you a fairly accurate picture about problems encountered and management techniques used in real-life project management.

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