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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assist in establishing project
   • Identify project scope
   • Identify relevant project stakeholders and team members
   • Identify project initiation documentation
   • Assist in negotiating and documenting project objectives, outcomes and benefits
   • Identify relationship between the project and broader organisational strategies and goals
   • Assist in establishing the project governance structure
2. Support project planning and design processes
   • Assist in drafting a project charter for approval
   • Assist in developing a project budget
   • Support relevant personnel in breaking down project objectives into deliverables
   • Identify project milestones and map clearly against time and objectives
   • Assist in compiling relevant plans and project baselines for project management plan
3. Assist with project control and execution
   • Prepare, maintain and update status reports on project progress and identified challenges
   • Seek feedback and changes required to the project from relevant stakeholders
   • Assist with undertaking an impact analysis of proposed changes to the project
   • Update associated plans and reflect project progress against baselines and approved changes
4. Assist with project finalisation
   • Prepare finalised project products and associated documentation for handover to client
   • Assist in completing financial, legal and contractual obligations
   • Provide feedback and suggestions for improvement to project performance
   • Review project performance, assessments and document lessons learned

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

assist in implementing project life cycle management process during at least two projects.

In the course of above, the candidate must:

work with others to plan and document a project based on organisational parameters

examine impact that project changes could have on final outcomes.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

basic project governance models

project charter

project life cycle stages, phases and structures relevant to industry and project

project planning documents and formats relevant to industry and context

organisational strategies and goals in relation to the project

organisational financial, legal and contractual obligations

methods to prepare project budgets

various types of project initiation documentation

types of project logs and registers in use in this context.

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