APS-510: PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGY
Final Project
OVERVIEW
You are required to submit a final paper (between 10–12 pages) in the form of an executive project
management high level report to your company’s Vice Presidents and Directors. In this paper, you will
apply a range of project management principles and methodologies presented in your textbooks by Jack
Gido, James P. Clements, Harold Kerzner, and other scholastic articles/cases used in this course.
FINAL PAPER TOPIC
Scenario: The World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia
You have been hired as a consultant by the World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia Committee to
manage the planning, execution, and closeout of all World Cup Soccer games in Ethiopia-East Africa.
The assignment is known as the “World Cup Soccer Games in Ethiopia Project” and the goal is to
produce a report addressing project management activities and tasks that will be handled by the team
that you will lead. There are a total of 20 teams and although all travel (flights, bus, etc.) into Ethiopia
will be handled by participating countries, your team is responsible to coordinate the following:
● Hotel stay
● Food
● Transportation to the games
● Medical personnel
● Security
● Other
In your report, you should provide information on how your company plans to coordinate the activities
during the game. This includes everything from choosing the venues to what time the activities should
start/end. Your Project Management proposal execution report should also discuss the challenges and
mitigation strategies that you and your team will implement for the World Cup Soccer Games in Ethiopia
that will take place for 20 days in Ethiopia in 2026.
INSTRUCTIONS
Connect your report to what you have learned in the textbooks by Gido, Clements, and Harold Kerzner
by including, at minimum, the following topics:
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● Project initiation (project selection)
● Effective project management
● Project planning
● Work breakdown structures (WBS)
● Managing risks
● Costs and budgets
● Schedules (time/delivery)
● Internal and external resource utilization (team)
● Project communications
● Performance and monitoring of the World Cup Soccer Games project
● Project closure
● Lessons learned
GUIDELINES
The final project must include or demonstrate the following:
● A minimum of four scholastic references
● Accepted research approaches and citation format (APA)
● Is well developed, organized, coherent, and unified
● Conveys your understanding of the readings and concepts
● Displays proper grammar, spelling, and mechanics
WRITING AND RESEARCH RESOURCES
The following links provide online writing and research aids to help you with your paper assignments.
● OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University
● Writer’s Handbook, the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
● APA Guidelines
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