Interrelated and Interdependent Processes and Plans to Ensure the Successful Completion of Year one of Unisa's Masters in Business Leadership

1 Introduction 1

1.1 A theoretical and literary perspective 1

1.2 Nature and characteristics of MBL Year One 1

1.3 Project objectives, goals, scope and deliverables 2

2 Resource Considerations: Identification, Analysis and Constraints. 2

2.1 Resource Identification 2

2.2 Resource Analysis: Human Resources 3

2.3 Resource Analysis: Time and availability constraints. 4

3 Risk Management: Identification and Analysis 6

3.1 Risk Management: Identification, evaluation, mitigation and control plans 6

4 Project Performance and Success 8

4.1 Targets 8

4.2 Time 9

4.3 Cost 9

5 Group organisational structure 10

6 Project planning and scheduling 12

6.1 Project scheduling: scheduling of year one MBL activities 12

6.2 Project scheduling: updating of performance 13

7 Project Control and Measurement 14

7.1 Individual commitment 14

7.2 Informal and formal roles 14

7.3 Meetings 14

7.4 Assignment work procedure 14

7.5 Risk and Issue management 15

7.6 Non-performance factors 15

7.7 Handling non-performance 15

8 Conclusion 16

9 REFERENCES 16

Figure 1: Initial Group structure 10

Figure 2: Revised Group structure 11

Table 1: Available resources *full names in appendix D 3

Table 2: Skills and competency audit 3

Table 3: Human resources (non-) availability matrix for the year 5

Table 4: Equipment, materials and supplies (non-) availability matrix 5

Table 5: Facilities (non-) availability matrix 5

Table 6: Services (non-) availability matrix 6

Table 7: Risk Management: Identification, evaluation, mitigation and control plans 8

Table 8: Assignment delivery life-cycle 9