PROJECT A Project A is a planning, design and implementation infrastructure development project (about GHS 15 million in value and expected to take about three years from the start of planning to completion), which is well advanced in its planning component. While the project is progressing well in terms of time, cost and quality, there are a number of sustainability and stakeholder management issues with it. This project is being undertaken in an environmentally sensitive area in which leave several property owners who are quite concerned with the impact of the project on their environment. They are concerned that a thorough environmental risk assessment has not been undertaken with respect to the long-term impact on the sensitive bushland area in which they live. They are also concerned that completion of the project, through providing the basis for significant property development and destruction of bushland, will forever change the social fabric of their region. They have formed a Landholders’ Action Committee that is determined to prevent the project from succeeding. The delays caused by the concerns of the property owners have the potential to threaten the completion of this project satisfactorily. There is an alternative, less controversial route for the infrastructure being developed. This route is acceptable to the Landholders’ Action Committee. It will, however, cost an addition GHS 1.5 million to use this route, which will result in a six-month delay to delivery of the project. a) Nominate three (3) example projects for discussion Nominate an organization of your choice, and the engineering discipline or disciplines in which it is operating. It should be an organization in Ghana Nominate three (3) suitable projects (for example, road development, subdivisional development, power station, mobile phone network, mining, provision of industrial equipment, installation, maintenance, surveying, research, and development) to use as examples for your discussion. These projects should be consistent with your nomination of the type of engineering disciplines in which your organization operates. b) Define key characteristics of each project nominated For example: ✓ Fit with current organizational strategic direction ✓ Estimated cost ✓ Estimated duration ✓ Expected quality of deliverables ✓ Current expenditure, percentage completed, quality standard achieved ✓ Key stakeholders ✓ Main risks ✓ Impact on the environment and society – short term and long term ✓ Complexity ✓ Other factors (for example, human resource, communications, procurement) ✓ Project integration factors ✓ Any other significant factor impacting on the project Question 2 (1500 to 2000 words) Report to Board of Directors Write a report to the Board of Directors of your organization that: i. Summarizes your analysis of projects you have been asked to assess ii. Describes your proposed solution for the project, including the feasibility of implementing it iii. Discusses, from an overall program management perspective, how the projects within your program can be better assessed, prior to acceptance by the organization, for feasibility and alignment with the Board’s strategic direction for your organization