Case study*
Hurricane Katrina decimated thousands of buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana,
USA, in 2005, including a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facility
that served approximately 40,000 military families. The hospital, also where worldclass research was conducted and more than 500 medical students were training to
become physicians, suffered so much damage that it had to be replaced. So in 2006,
the U.S. Congress authorized funding for a new 1.6-million-square-foot (148,645-
squaremeter) regional referral center. Dubbed Project Legacy, the 10-year, US$1
billion project delivered an eight-building, 30-acre (12.1-hectare) campus in the heart
of New Orleans. In a city submerged and beleaguered by a deadly storm, rebuilding
a critical healthcare center became a symbol of recovery.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) demanded strict requirements
designed to ensure the project team remained careful stewards of taxpayer funds.
And a weary community—including healthcare facility patients and staff—needed
assurances that the project would expand services and improve access to care. That
meant the team had to maintain a sharp focus on managing risk, scope and
stakeholders.
The project is to outlines the overall rebuilding process, as well as several program
and change management elements which contributed to program-level performance
outcomes, which were essential to realizing the long-term benefits associated with
the hospital.
Assessment Requirements:
You have been recommended for the project manager role, but there are others on
the short list, including some very experienced consultants.
Structure of the Coursework:
1 Table of Contents
2 Project definition
3 Project approach
4 Project management team structure
5 Role descriptions
6 Quality management approach
7 Change control approach
8 Risk management approach
9 Communication management approach
10 Project plan
11 Project controls
12 Tailoring of PRINCE2
Assessment Marking Criteria and Breakdown of marks:
Criteria Marks
available
Knowledge of the topic by
researching the scholarly
literature
20
Understanding of theory
of PRINCE2
20
Application of PRINCE2
theory to the topic
20
Provide the rationale for
proposed plans and
choices based on
evidence
20
Use of academic
conventions, referencing
and writing skills
appropriate for L6
20
Total 100%
In order to convince you are the person for the job, you need to develop a project
and submit the Project Initiation Document (PID) using PRINCE2