Assignment Question1 The EIZ holds a national symposium every August of each year. The symposium is organised by the EIZ secretariat. During the past three years, the attendance and quality of these National Symposia has being going down. An assessment has revealed that the main causes for this has been lack of communication, low quality of papers presented, absence of proceedings, and a reduction of paid up members. For this years National Symposium, the EIZ Council has therefore decided to appoint a professional project manager to manage the National Symposium. It is also envisaged that a successful National Symposium would create awareness and contribute to membership building. Project Brief The EIZ contracted the project manager to manage the National Symposium and exhibition to be held over three days during the usual month of August. Specifically, the project manager will be responsible for planning, organising, coordinating and controlling the project. The Institute has allocated an amount of K10,000,000 for initial expenditure, but this has to be paid back out of the Symposium and exhibition proceeds. Companies have been approached for sponsorship and K15,000,000 has been raised. Funding over and above these amounts is to be generated through the Symposium and exhibition fees. The Institute expects the Symposium and exhibition to realize a net profit of at least K50,000,000. To achieve this target, at least 100 Symposium delegates and 20 exhibitors are needed. A minimum of 20 new members are expected to enroll as a result of the proceedings. Over the three-day period, approximately 2,000 visitors are expected to visit the exhibition. To attract both members and non-members, a quality professional programme highlighting nationally-known engineers as well as an international keynote speaker is planned. The project start date is 1 February and it is estimated to take 11 months. The project manager draws up a project charter capturing the above parameters, and the EIZ 2 Secretary, acting as sponsor, approves it. Project Core Team The project has just been initiated and the project manager and sponsor have assessed the high-level staffing requirements in terms of skill and time required. Four members from the EIZ Publications Committee have been identified. The four team members (Banda, Chola, Moonga and Yeta) are assigned part-time to the project due to existing workloads. Give a detailed outline of how you will develop the project plan for hosting the symposium showing how you will deal with each project management knowledge area. [20 MARKS]