Business Plan

BSBPMG522 Undertake project work


Student Instructions for Assessment


Introduction

Under the trainer’s guidance, you will be placed in a team of 3-5 members. The team will exemplify diversity in gender, mother tongue, and nationality.


Meeting on campus, the team will operate as a true business and undertake a project for a client. The client may be a fellow student, a member of staff or a local business.


The project may be a full business plan or part of one such as a marketing plan, a strategic plan, a media campaign or a project plan.


The team agrees on what tasks are to be performed by whom.


In team meetings and discussions, a team member needs to keep minutes and submit these to team members and the assessor.


Your team has ten weeks to undertake their tasks which will include research, interviews, written reports, minutes and the plan itself.


You are expected to demonstrate the skill of managing the team’s motivation and commitment to the project. Your teacher serves as your line manager as you facilitate communication between all.


Assessment

For this unit you will be assessed in five ways:


  1. using the Project Planning templates, you will undertake a project covering all or part of the business plan, titling it “such and such Plan for such and such”. The plan/document must include an executive summary outlining the idea needing to be realised, its business objective, and the roles & responsibilities of team members. The plan must identify:

  • the resources needed for the project including their quality and budgetary requirements

  • risk management including WHS

The plan cannot be an imitation or copy of another plan, but one built for purpose to demonstrate innovation. The team decides on timelines for work to be completed.


  1. The teacher will use an Assessment Checklist and a Marking Guide to record how you conduct yourself in the team meetings. Any student who remains silent and does not fully participate in these meetings, automatically fails. Team leaders are observed by the assessor leading and supporting each team member in meeting expected outcomes in their assigned tasks. The assessor will observe you giving positive feedback to team members as they participate in team work.


  1. Team members, in a verbal or written report, will critique your leadership.


  1. In undertaking your various tasks, you will verbally or digitally report on issues and progress to the team. The assessor records these reports using the marking guide where evidence cannot be captured. In most cases, meeting minutes will meet this requirement. Candidates for BSBPMG522 Undertake project work need to ensure they see to the transition of team members as they enrol and graduate during your course.


  1. You will maintain diarised records of issues raised by your team members, the project itself and the resulting follow-up, if any. These records will be in the form of minutes. Points c, d and e can be submitted in the one document. Candidates for BSBPMG522 Undertake project work will include in their written report lessons learned from the project submitting the report to team members and the assessor as line manager.


  1. On receiving your completed project, your customer will be asked to report on your team’s performance. Where this is not forthcoming, your teacher will complete the Customer Satisfaction Survey in their stead.


The due date for these items will be negotiated between your teacher and your team.


The length of written and verbal reports and communications is dependent on their purpose. The assessor is looking for appropriacy. Concise statements of relevant facts are the norm for efficient business communications. Documents should be understandable for the customer as well as the assessor, and proactively answer their predictable questions.


Your written work must have the layout and professional appearance expected in the business world and of a standard fit for presenting to a bank manager or potential investor.


The assessor is looking for the two important elements: not the number of words but their efficacy and presentation.