Project Management: Opening a Café in Cambodia Case Study

This case study focuses on the project of opening a café in Cambodia near a college. It covers project goals, objectives, deliverables, work breakdown structure, key personnel and resources, project budget, and project risks.

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Case Study- Opening a café in Cambodia
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Project overview.....................................................................................................................2
2. Problem statement..................................................................................................................2
3. Project goals and objectives...................................................................................................3
4. Project deliverables................................................................................................................5
5. Work breakdown structure.....................................................................................................5
6. Key personnel and resources..................................................................................................7
7. Project budget.........................................................................................................................8
8.Project risks...........................................................................................................................10
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................12

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1. Project overview
The paper mainly focuses on the project “opening of a cafe” in Cambodia. It is found
that the café was opened near to a college in Cambodia so that the students of the college can
spend their free time with their friends during break hours in the college for enjoying coffee
and snacks within a reasonable price in an excellent ambience. The main aim of the project is
to undertake feasibility analysis to rationally and objectively uncover various strengths as
well as weaknesses of the business. In this paper, the project elaborates project goals,
objectives, deliverables as well as resources that are required for completing the project.
Additionally, the paper also discusses the challenges and risks that are faced by the project
with proper mitigation strategies.
2. Problem statement
It is found that the cafés that are present in the region where the new café is started
were very much expensive and thus the college students faces difficulty in affording the
cafés. In order to resolve this issue and challenges, a new café was started in that region in
Cambodia that assists in providing proper services to the students at a very much cheaper
price that are affordable for the students.
The café is needed by the students of the colleges so that they can enjoy their free
time within the café. In order to meet the needs and demands of the students, the project was
funded with the amount of budget which is generally needed for the project.
The scope of the project mainly includes:
 Opening of a café in Cambodia
 Undertaking feasibility analysis for the project
 Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the project

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 To analyze the needed budget and time for finishing the project
 To determine the risks and challenges that are associated with the project
It is found that project “opening a café” in Cambodia is undertaken inn order to
provide proper ambience to the students of the college for enjoying their free time within
their budget. It is found that the time that is generally needed in order to start the café will be
around 1096 hours. In addition to this, it is found that for completing the entire the project,
the project manager hired resource manager, financial manager, operational manager as well
as market analyst.
3. Project goals and objectives
The main goal of the project is to start a new café in Cambodia and check the
feasibility of the project for rationally uncovering the strengths, weaknesses as well as
opportunities of the business.
The main objectives of the projects are listed below:
 To open a new coffee shop in Cambodia
 To check the feasibility of the business that is undertaken
 To identify the threats that are associated with the project environment
The timeline that is needed to be followed for opening a café in Cambodia with proper
milestone is reflected with the help of the figure that is given below:

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Figure 1: Project timeline with milestones
(Source: Created by Author)

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4. Project deliverables
The project deliverables are listed below:
 Selecting the menu for the café which will be served
 Exploring different location
 Analyzing the competitive market
 Considering local regulations and laws
 Exploring the equipment’s that are required for café
 Establishing business structure
 Exploring vendors for products like cakes and pastries
 Exploring health department regulations
5. Work breakdown structure
The work breakdown structure of the project that is provided below helps in
describing each of the project tasks including the time in hours as well as the responsible
person who is mainly involved with the project completion.

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Figure 2: WBS with time in hours and resources
(Source: Created by Author)

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6. Key personnel and resources
The key personnel who are mainly involved with the project are listed below in the
table with their roles and responsibilities.
Key personnel Roles and responsibilities
Project manager The project manager generally takes the
responsibility of planning, executing and
controlling the project effectively in order to
finish the project within the expected budget
and time.
Project planner The project planner takes the responsibility
of planning the entire project so that the café
can be opened within the time that is
expected.
Resource manager The resource manager generally takes the
responsibility of managing the resources of
the entire project successfully.
Financial manager The financial manager takes the entire
responsibility for managing the financial
reports in order to finish the project quite
effectively.
Operation manager The operation manager takes the
responsibility of managing the entire
operations.
Market analyst The market analyst takes the responsibility
of analyzing the market so that the work of

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the project can be completed within time.
The other resources that are required for finishing the project are listed below:
 Equipment: Equipment like coffee machine and more are needed for staring the
café.
 Materials: Different type of materials are generally needed in order to
start the opening of the café.
7. Project budget
The detailed budget for the project is provided below which suggests that the
project requires $91,240.00 as a fund in order to open the café in Cambodia.
Figure 3: Budget of the project
(Source: Created by Author)
It is found that in order to open a café in Cambodia, the organization requires
funding so that they can start their business. Funding will e advantageous as the café
that is opened is near to a college and therefore it is expected that the business of the
café will flourish. Thus, by checking the feasibility of the project, proper funding must
be given to the project so that the project of café can be started on time.
8.Project risks
After conducting proper risk analysis, it is found that there are number of factors as
well as events that can negatively create impact the implementation as well as operation
of the new business. The identified risks are listed below:

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Schedule slippage: Schedule slippage can be a problem that can impact the project
negatively. It generally occurs due to improper management of project schedule while the
project is progressing.
Budget shortfall: If the budget that is needed for opening of the café is not properly
estimated then the project manager can face budget shortfall.
Inexperienced team members: If the team members are not experienced then they
can face number of issues and challenges in completing the entire project within the expected
time and budget.
Improper marketing: If marketing is not properly, then the project manager will
face number of issues and challenges in competing with other café’s that are present on that
location.
The some of the key issues of which the project manager e aware before initiating the
project are listed below:
Proper information about project needs and requirements: It is quite important to
have proper information about the project needs and requirements before starting the project.
Proper budget analysis: If budget of the project is not analyzed then the chances of
occurring financial issues enhances.

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