The document outlines the project management responsibilities for a pilot online academic writing module targeted at first-year students. The project is initiated by the dean and requires stakeholder management to address concerns about varying marking criteria and student inclusion. Key tasks include recruiting faculty, evaluating module impact, and managing communications with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and rollout.

1. You are a project manager for a pilot module for an Academic Writing course at a Higher
Education institution. The course is targeted at first-year students who will be participating in the
course, Induction to Academic Studies, of which your pilot will be an online component. You have
been briefed to manage the project by the Dean of Academic Learning.
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The need for the project has been identified by the Curriculum Development and Quality
Department, and authorised by the Institutional Senate. You will be reporting to the Dean regularly
and providing a final evaluation report about the impact of the module on the students Academic
Writing skills. On the basis of the pilot and evaluation report, the Dean and Institutional Senate will
make a decision about how the module will be rolled out.
You are to recruit the required online lecturing staff to deliver the pilot module and manage it. They
need to be aware that the course will be evaluated. The students who participate in the course
must be informed that they are participating in a pilot and that they will be involved in an evaluation
of the course.
The Academic Writing module will run as an online module that is part of the course, Induction to
Academic Studies, which is delivered as contact learning for the first-year student in Term 2. The
course, Induction to Academic Studies, has a Course Owner, who is a staff member responsible
for the course. She also manages the teaching staff who work on the course. The regular version
of the course will run as usual, and only a selected number of classes will be involved in the pilot
module. You will need to manage your relationship with these colleagues, and manage any
disruptions that may occur because of the contact classes they are running and the students
participating in your pilot module. There are also concerns about whether students not involved in
the pilot module will be unhappy about their exclusion.
It has often been noticed that students submit work according to how they perceive a lecturer
marks their work. The implication here is that lecturers have varying criteria for how they mark
academic writing and their demands for referencing skills from students. This could skew your
evaluation of the Academic Writing module if what is taught is not reinforced in other subject
classes and academic submissions. You will need to consider how to address this. Some
members of staff have commented that when higher levels of studies (i.e., majors) are engaged in
by students in year two and year three, the writing and assessment requirements become very
specific and are catered for in those classes.
Managing the relationship and communication of all the stakeholders is one of the most
challenging parts of managing a project. You need to consider the environment in which you are
working, and identify who the stakeholders are and how best to manage them.
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Stakeholders
A stakeholder is either an individual, group or organisation that is impacted (positively or
negatively) by a project before it starts, and/or during its implementation, and/or by the outcome or
result of a project. Stakeholders may be impacted by (or impact on) the project through the roles
they have to play, their needs, levels of power and interests in the project, as well as their
expectations and fears.

2. Stakeholder analysis and management
The stakeholder management process involves identifying stakeholders, analysing the stakeholder
relationships, developing a stakeholder strategy, then engaging and communicating with them.
Source: Adapted from: Oosthuizen & Venter. 2021. The stakeholder management process. Project
Management in Perspective (2nd edition). Cape Town: Oxford.
Landau, P. 2022 What is a Stakeholder? [Online] Available from:
https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/what-is-a-stakeholder [Accessed: 23-09-2022]
Copy and complete the stakeholder identification power-interest grid template that is provided
below.
You are required to:
Identify the four (4) types of stakeholders from the case study. (4)
Provide ANY two (2) examples of stakeholders for each type. (6)
Describe their interest and power (in terms of high and low) for each. (4)
Name the key strategy required to manage each type of stakeholder. (6)
in my opinion the types of stakeholders are :
pivitol
interested
marginal
dormant
You are a project manager for a pilot module for an Academic Writing course at a Higher
Education institution. The course is targeted at first-year students who will be participating in the
course, Induction to Academic Studies, of which your pilot will be an online component. You have
been briefed to manage the project by the Dean of Academic Learning.
MilparkEducationProjectManagementPROM02-6Assignment131March2023 Page6of10
The need for the project has been identified by the Curriculum Development and Quality
Department, and authorised by the Institutional Senate. You will be reporting to the Dean regularly
and providing a final evaluation report about the impact of the module on the students Academic
Writing skills. On the basis of the pilot and evaluation report, the Dean and Institutional Senate will
make a decision about how the module will be rolled out.
You are to recruit the required online lecturing staff to deliver the pilot module and manage it. They
need to be aware that the course will be evaluated. The students who participate in the course
must be informed that they are participating in a pilot and that they will be involved in an evaluation
of the course.
The Academic Writing module will run as an online module that is part of the course, Induction to

3. Academic Studies, which is delivered as contact learning for the first-year student in Term 2. The
course, Induction to Academic Studies, has a Course Owner, who is a staff member responsible
for the course. She also manages the teaching staff who work on the course. The regular version
of the course will run as usual, and only a selected number of classes will be involved in the pilot
module. You will need to manage your relationship with these colleagues, and manage any
disruptions that may occur because of the contact classes they are running and the students
participating in your pilot module. There are also concerns about whether students not involved in
the pilot module will be unhappy about their exclusion.
It has often been noticed that students submit work according to how they perceive a lecturer
marks their work. The implication here is that lecturers have varying criteria for how they mark
academic writing and their demands for referencing skills from students. This could skew your
evaluation of the Academic Writing module if what is taught is not reinforced in other subject
classes and academic submissions. You will need to consider how to address this. Some
members of staff have commented that when higher levels of studies (i.e., majors) are engaged in
by students in year two and year three, the writing and assessment requirements become very
specific and are catered for in those classes.
Managing the relationship and communication of all the stakeholders is one of the most
challenging parts of managing a project. You need to consider the environment in which you are
working, and identify who the stakeholders are and how best to manage them.
MilparkEducationProjectManagementPROM02-6Assignment131March2023 Page7of10
Stakeholders
A stakeholder is either an individual, group or organisation that is impacted (positively or
negatively) by a project before it starts, and/or during its implementation, and/or by the outcome or
result of a project. Stakeholders may be impacted by (or impact on) the project through the roles
they have to play, their needs, levels of power and interests in the project, as well as their
expectations and fears.
Stakeholder analysis and management
The stakeholder management process involves identifying stakeholders, analysing the stakeholder
relationships, developing a stakeholder strategy, then engaging and communicating with them.
Source: Adapted from: Oosthuizen & Venter. 2021. The stakeholder management process. Project
Management in Perspective (2nd edition). Cape Town: Oxford.
Landau, P. 2022 What is a Stakeholder? [Online] Available from:

4. https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/what-is-a-stakeholder [Accessed: 23-09-2022]
Copy and complete the stakeholder identification power-interest grid template that is provided
below.
You are required to:
Identify the four (4) types of stakeholders from the case study. (4)
Provide ANY two (2) examples of stakeholders for each type. (6)
Describe their interest and power (in terms of high and low) for each. (4)
Name the key strategy required to manage each type of stakeholder. (6)
in my opinion the types of stakeholders are :
pivitol
interested
marginal
dormant