Required Skills and Background Knowledge:
– For this paper, outstanding knowledge in Project Management and Microsoft
PowerPoint is required. This includes designing professional consulting slides to present
Project Charter, Project Organization, WBS, PERT Method, Gantt Chart, Risk Assessment
Matrix, Risk Portfolio, and Shareholder Matrix.
– In addition, the PM strategies and techniques described in the case need to be evaluated
based on state-of-the-art literature (peer-reviewed scientific sources, top rated
articles/papers only).
Please only apply if you can meet the requirements for this really demanding task.
Project Management
You were hired as Head of the Novo Nordisk Engineering’s (NNE) Fast Factory
Construction Team, responsible for the conception and realization of the first Fast Factory to
be built for Novo Nordisk. One of your first assignments is to develop a project plan for this
project, considering (but not limited to) the information provided in the case.
Therefore, for this project, …
1. Determine two SMART objectives of the project.
2. Develop the Project Charter.
3. Generate an appropriate Project Organization.
4. Develop a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structure.
5. Establish a Project Activity Network (PERT Method) and answer the question: “What
project duration will lead to a probability of project completion of 80%?”
6. Establish a Gantt Chart displaying at least 4 milestone entries (in addition to kick-off
meeting and final presentation) and the project activities.
7. Develop the risk management instruments (Risk Assessment Matrix with description of
risks and reasons for likelihood and impacts of risks, Risk Portfolio and required
actions).
8. Identify potential stakeholders, describe their interests and influence, develop
the Stakeholder Matrix, and develop appropriate actions per stakeholder.
And in addition:
9. Classify and evaluate the project management strategies and techniques described in the
case based on state-of-the-art literature (1.000 Words). Peer-reviewed scientific sources,
top rated articles/papers only)! Reinforce your content by establishing own illustrations.
How to reference?
– Harvard referencing style including page (e.g. Kotter (1996, p.xx) argues that…)
– Always quote with the page number
NOTES:
· NOTE 1: Objectives, Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt chart, Project Activity Network,
Project Organization, and all other documents need to be consistent and must not
contradict each other. This requirement is an essential evaluation criterion.
· NOTE 2: The mentioned project management tools (questions 1-8) are to be
established using the presentation program MS-PPT (professional consulting slides,
please match with the company´s style). The slides must be self- explanatory.
Additional explanations are not required, the ppt-presentation is sufficient.
Therefore, there is no requirement on the word count for questions 1-8 of this part
of the assignment. Only for question 9, there is a word count requirement of 1.000
words.
· NOTE 3: Use the internet for additional information regarding the topic and the company.
Regarding the approach for setting up and implementing such a project, use available
additional literature. List your sources at the end of your paper and refer to the sources
in footnotes (also on the slides)! The quality of the literature review is an essential part
of the evaluation.
Support (Solution Proposals and hints from various case studies, please consider the applied
rules)
1) SMART objectives
2) Project Charter
3) Project Organization
4) Develop a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structure

5) Gantt Chart
6) Develop the risk management instruments (Risk Assessment Matrix with
description of risks and reasons for likelihood and impacts of risks, Risk
Portfolio and required actions).
Other: