ou are expected to conduct a thorough problem analysis uncovering the nature of

ou are expected to conduct a thorough problem analysis uncovering the nature of the problem, the affected parties and their characteristics, and the causes and effects of the problem. These tasks develop a deeper level of empathy around the given problem and enable you to take another individual’s/organisation’s perspective. This is an essential skill and a professional capability that is built on open-mindedness and removes cognitive biases reducing blind spots in decision-making. This assignment further requires you to develop a project development plan identifying project goals, activities, competencies, challenges, and measures of success. Working on a client’s project necessitates the team members to understand non-technical requirements such as project goals and individual roles within the project and build confidence that the project activities will deliver a solution addressing the problem in addition to the technical requirements as they are crucial for a project’s success.
you are required to conduct a problem analysis and deliver a report by answering the following questions. To ensure rigour in this analysis, you are required to make appropriate use of the relevant frameworks, models and tools
Questions to be answered:
1- What is the problem your client wants you to address, who is affected by this problem, and what can you say about the level of impact on each party affected by the problem? Briefly explain the nature of the problem. Then identify the parties affected by the problem with the relative level of impact. You may want to categorise the affected parties if you see that there are multiple groups impacted by the problem (e.g., directly and indirectly affected; small, medium, and large organisations, male and female).
2- What causes this problem? Analyse the drivers of the problem and discuss what impacts this problem creates on the affected parties.
3- Based on the understanding gained from questions (1) and (2) above, prepare a project development plan to address the client’s problem including the following. Due to the word limit, a table with a column each for goals, activities, competencies, challenges, and measures of success is suggested for this purpose.
– Goals: What are your three main project goals for the next eight weeks of the teaching period (i.e., From Week 5 to Week 12)? You may want to consider SMART criteria (i.e., S=specific, M=measurable, A=attainable, R=realistic, and T=time bound) when you write your project goals.
– Activities: What specific activities you/your team will perform to achieve the mentioned project goals?
– Competencies: What and how specific skills, disciplinary knowledge, and abilities you have gathered so far in your degree will help accomplish the activities you identified?
– Challenges: What challenges will you face when trying to achieve the above goals? How will you be overcoming those challenges?
– Measures of success: What specific measures of success will you be using to determine the accomplishment of each stated project goal?
Additional information:
– Simply reproducing the content in the project brief is not sufficient.
– Please also note that you need to use the tools or frameworks (e.g., problem tree analysis, five why’s, stakeholder analysis) appropriately when answering to above questions.
– You are not required to provide solutions and recommendations to the client at this stage.
– Support your explanations with evidence from internal (e.g., client’s organisational reports, customer feedback, survey findings, discussions with the Client) and external sources (e.g., industry reports, newspapers, journals, and government publications) where appropriate.
Suggested format
This assignment takes the form of a report. Please note that this report is not a managerial report and hence, does not need to include an executive summary, introduction and conclusion. The main purpose is to fully focus on a deeper level of analysis of the problem.
Depending on your creativity, you are free to structure the report as you wish. You do not necessarily need to follow the question order in your response. However, make sure that you cover all three questions. You may use diagrams, graphics and tables to present information concisely, creatively and effectively, and you are required to use font size 12 and 1.5 line spacing.
Research
Extensive research drawing on relevant sources underpins all your work. This includes but is not limited to industry reports; academic publications (textbooks, articles, working papers); government reports; news regalia and authoritative websites. You must cite, reference and support your claims using the APA referencing style.