MGMT 690 Capstone, Project Management Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · MS in Project Management · Business and accounting · Updated

MGMT 690 integrates the program's project management knowledge in applied case work, reading a custom capstone text with Jarocki's argument for unifying project and change management. The samples trace a grocery chain's self-checkout rollout that worked as a project and failed as a change, weigh an engineering firm's unwanted PMO, rank a county's capital requests by strategy, follow a science building's renovation to net zero, and close with a capstone paper on U.S. commercial construction and a PMO for a mid-size general contractor.

CourseMGMT 690 Capstone, Project Management (MGMT690)
Credit hours3
ProgramMS in Project Management
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published MGMT 690 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What MGMT 690 covers

The custom text's chapters run across Modules/Weeks 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8, and Jarocki is read in order from chapters 1 and 2 in Module/Week 1 to chapters 11 and 12 in Module/Week 5; Module/Week 7 carries only a presentation and a website besides the research paper.

Forum threads fall in Modules/Weeks 1, 3 and 5 with group replies a module later, and Forum 4's thread and replies both fall in Module/Week 8; Red Zuma Parts 1 and 2 are due in Module/Week 2, Part 3 in Module/Week 3, Part 4 in Module/Week 4, the book critique in Module/Week 5 and the research paper in Module/Week 7.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes MGMT 690 Capstone, Project Management this way:
In this course, students integrate the concepts, techniques, and knowledge of the principal components of project management in a comprehensive, applied case study exercise. Course topics include project planning, project scope management, risk management, project scheduling and estimation, and project assessment.

MGMT 690 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1DB Forum 1 Thread (Course Requirements Checklist and Class Introductions also due)45Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2DB Forum 1 Replies (Red Zuma Case Project Parts 1-2 and industry selection also due)35Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3DB Forum 2 Thread (Red Zuma Case Project Part 3 also due)45Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4DB Forum 2 Replies (Red Zuma Case Project Part 4 also due)35Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5DB Forum 3 Thread (Book Critique also due)45Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6DB Forum 3 Replies35Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Capstone Research Paper250Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8DB Forum 4 Thread and Replies80Read the Week 8 sample

Where MGMT 690 papers lose points

MGMT 690 work slips when a group thread strays from the 500-to-750-word band or falls short of three peer-reviewed sources, when group replies drift past 250 words, and when the capstone paper's industry overview and PMO proposal never meet or its leadership, teamwork, planning, evaluation and sustainability sections read as general essays.

Using a MGMT 690 sample well

The samples draw on Jarocki, the PMBOK Guide, Hornstein, Oreg and colleagues, Parker and colleagues, Lines, Hobbs and Aubry, Aubry and colleagues, Dai and Wells, Meskendahl, Killen and colleagues, Martinsuo, Silvius and Schipper, Martens and Carvalho, Huemann and Silvius and recent construction research.

MGMT 690 questions, answered

Which books does MGMT 690 use?

A custom McGraw-Hill Create capstone text, which contains the Red Zuma case project, and Thomas Jarocki's The Next Evolution on unifying project and change management.

How are MGMT 690 forums run?

In assigned groups: each thread runs 500 to 750 words with three peer-reviewed sources and Scripture, and each student replies to at least two group members in 200 to 250 words.

What is the largest assignment in MGMT 690?

The 250-point capstone research paper in Module/Week 7, fifteen to twenty pages on an industry's current state and a proposed PMO, with at least twenty references.

Ask for a custom MGMT 690 sample

Send the Module/Week, the instructions and the rubric from your Canvas course, and a writer in your field drafts a sample to them in 24 to 48 hours. The first custom sample is free.

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