PROJECT TASK You work for the Tshwane municipality department of electricity. The electricity supply to an up market suburb in Tshwane has been intermittent. This has resulted in the residents approaching the media to voice their discontent about the bad service they are experiencing from the Tshwane municipality. The bad publicity has prompted the mayor of Tshwane to take action. He appointed you as a competent project manager to manage the project to replace the faulty transformer at the substation of the affected suburb. The mayor has summoned you to his office to lay down the rules with you on the project execution. He has indicated that a limited emergency budget has been made available for this urgent project. The estimated and committed duration of the project is three months. You have been mandated to start immediately with the project with a highly competent project team that has been seconded to you. The budget cannot exceed R5m. Answer ALL the questions in this section. Question You have called the first of many meetings with your project team to brief them on the project. Take them through the project life cycle stages. This will help you team to understand the expectations of the project.

My confusion in this type of questions is: in explaining the project life cycle stages or phases, do i do it as generically explained by project management books or do i take this municipality project and create its phases on how this project will be carried out? from the initiation phase to the closing phase of the project?