Because you have performed very well in your project review task, you have gained a position as a program manager in an organization that provides project management services for planning, designing, and implementing engineering projects. The projects for which the organization provides its services encompass all disciplines of engineering, plus related disciplines like construction. Your main responsibility is the management of a program of approximately six (6) engineering projects in your organization. You have just taken over this particular program and are keen to make an impression. Three (3) of the six (6) projects in this program are progressing well towards a satisfactory result. The remaining three (3) projects, Project A, Project B and Project C require attention. The information given below about each project is fairly basic. You are expected to develop additional details about each project as part of your answer, and for each project nominate an example project (for example, an infrastructure development project for Project A, development of a new manufacturing system for Project C) for which to develop your answers. Further information with respect to these matters is in sub-questions 1a-c. PROJECT A Project A is a planning, design and implementation infrastructure development project (about GHS 15 million in value and expected to take about three years from the start of planning to completion), which is well advanced in its planning component. While the project is progressing well in terms of time, cost and quality, there are a number of sustainability and stakeholder management issues with it. This project is being undertaken in an environmentally sensitive area in which leave several property owners who are quite concerned with the impact of the project on their environment. They are concerned that a thorough environmental risk assessment has not been undertaken with respect to the long-term impact on the sensitive bushland area in which they live. They are also concerned that completion of the project, through providing the basis for significant property development and destruction of bushland, will forever change the social fabric of their region. They have formed a Landholders’ Action Committee that is determined to prevent the project from succeeding. The delays caused by the concerns of the property owners have the potential to threaten the completion of this project satisfactorily. There is an alternative, less controversial route for the infrastructure being developed. This route is acceptable to the Landholders’ Action Committee. It will, however, cost an addition GHS 1.5 million to use this route, which will result in a six-month delay to delivery of the project. a) Nominate three (3) example projects for discussion Nominate an organization of your choice, and the engineering discipline or disciplines in which it is operating. It should be an organization in Ghana Nominate three (3) suitable projects (for example, road development, subdivisional development, power station, mobile phone network, mining, provision of industrial equipment, installation, maintenance, surveying, research, and development) to use as examples for your discussion. These projects should be consistent with your nomination of the type of engineering disciplines in which your organization operates. b) Define key characteristics of each project nominated For example: ✓ Fit with current organizational strategic direction ✓ Estimated cost ✓ Estimated duration ✓ Expected quality of deliverables ✓ Current expenditure, percentage completed, quality standard achieved ✓ Key stakeholders ✓ Main risks ✓ Impact on the environment and society – short term and long term ✓ Complexity ✓ Other factors (for example, human resource, communications, procurement) ✓ Project integration factors ✓ Any other significant factor impacting on the project