Assignment #4
Assignment #4
Assignment #4
1. Watch the ff. videos which show different successful projects. Feel free to search the
internet for other related videos and/or sources of information about these projects.
a) Discovery Channel video about building the Panama Canal. This is part of the series
Extreme Engineering (www.itunes.com..)
b) Operation Thai Cave Rescue (Discovery Channel)
c) Separating Conjoined Twins (Full Story) (#conjoined twins #ucdavis
#childrenshospital)
2. Answer Table 1 below after watching (a) Panama Canal Project.
Refer to the attached document for the definitions of the terms in the table.
Project Attribute Original Panama Canal Current Panama Canal
Project Expansion Project
Project drivers
Project Source
Customer
Degree of Certainty
Expected Outcomes
Organizational Reach
Scope Complexity
Strategic Level
3. Choose only one of the two other videos (i.e. either the Thai Football Team Rescue or
Separation of conjoined twins ) to answer Table 2 below.
4.
Project Attribute
Project drivers
Project Source
Customer
Degree of Certainty
Expected Outcomes
Organizational Reach
Scope Complexity
Strategic Level
5. For each project (panama canal and the other project that you have chosen), enumerate
and explain the factors that made each project successful.
6. Assume that you have been appointed as project leader of the vaccination project of your
LGU. Prepare the WBS for this project and the WBS coding.