Assignment 2: Project Team Selection
Write a one to two (1–2) page paper in which you outline best practices for project team selection.
The format of the paper is to be as follows:
Typed, double-spaced, New Times Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides. APA format.
In addition to the one to two (1–2) pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor’s name, the course title, and the date.
NOTE: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.
The assignment will be graded using the following rubric:
Outcomes Assessed
Discuss the process of initiating a project and selecting a project team.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing project teams.
Grading Rubric for Assignment 2 — Project team Selection
Criteria
0
Unacceptable
40
Developing
60
Competent
80
Exemplary
1. Outline best practices for project team selection.
Did not complete the assignment or did not outline best practices for project team selection; omitted key information and/or included irrelevant information. Completed with less than 60% accuracy, thoroughness, and logic.
Partially outlined best practices for project team selection; omitted some key information. Completed with 60-79% accuracy, thoroughness, and logic.
Sufficiently outlined best practices for project team selection. Completed with 80-89% accuracy, thoroughness, and logic.
Fully outlined best practices for project team selection. Completed with 90-100% accuracy, thoroughness, and logic.
Criteria
0
Unacceptable
10
Developing
15
Competent
20
Exemplary
2. Clarity.
Did not complete the assignment, or explanations are unclear and not organized.
(Major issues)
Explanations generally unclear and not well organized.
(Many issues)
Explanations generally clear and/or organized. (Minor issues)
Explanations very clear and well organized.
(Added helpful details)
3. Writing— Grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, APA usage.
Did not complete the assignment or had 8 or more different errors in grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, or APA usage. (Major issues)
Had 6–7 different errors in grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, or APA usage. (Many issues)
Had 4–5 different errors in grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, or APA usage. (Minor issues)
Had 0–3 different errors in grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, or APA usage.
Solution Preview
Initiating a project is the initial stage in the life cycle of management of project. This is because it involves beginning up a original project. Anew project can be started by putting into definition its objectives, its scope, the purpose of the project and the deliverables to come out of the project. To gain approval for starting the next phase, the initiation process must also include hiring a project group, putting up the project office as well as project review.
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