Project Management: Event Launch at QAHE University

Project Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.............................................................................................................................................3
a) Project initiation document......................................................................................................3
b) Stakeholders analysis..............................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Work break down structure.........................................................................................................5
TASK 3.............................................................................................................................................9
Risk register.................................................................................................................................9
TASK 4...........................................................................................................................................11
Short report on event.................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Project management is defined as a discipline which comprises of certain policies, principles
and procedures so that project can be accomplished in a required manner (Vanhoucke, 2014).
This report is based on QAHE University which is responsible for providing higher education to
students. At present scenario they are about to carry out an event through which they can make
people aware about the modification they have been made in their infrastructure. This report
contains project initiation document along with details of budget, timescale, objectives and
stakeholder. The work breakdown structure has been provided and various risks associate with
the same are presented. At last, a short report has been presented which covers aspects such as
leadership, methodologies and other essential perspectives.
TASK 1
a) Project initiation document
PID is an crucial element within project management as it acts as an foundation for the
business project. Moreover, it is a reference point which is used for accomplishment of project
which comprises of all the mandatory details (Stellingwerf and Zandhuis, 2013). The PID has
been prepared before the actual project has been started. The PID plan for this project has been
shown below:
Title of project Launching of an event
Computation of budget Director of operation has provided a budget of £50,000
approximately for carrying out this project. This project is
based on showing the renovation which has been carried out
by QAHE University.
Brief break down of money  Locus - £10000
 Food and beverages - £10000
 Embellishment - £5000
 Entertainment - £5000
 Other resources - £20000

Start date 2nd September, 2019
Finish date 6th September, 2019
Project Sponsor Managing director of University or Director of Operations
Project manager
Main objectives (short list of
key business related with why
project is being undertaken)
 Grab the attention of maximum number of students
within their all Universities
 Show cases their alterations to acquire competitive
edge within the market.
 Promotion of University
Overall suggested approach
(some essential points in
description of how objectives
can be attained)
 Creation of awareness in between students with
respect to technologies implemented by them.
 Enhanced strategies can be formulated so that project
can be successfully accomplished.
Reference(s)
b) Stakeholders analysis
Groups or individuals who have interest in organisation are known as stakeholders. They
denote people who possess interest within triumph of peculiar project (Spalek, 2013). With
respect to QAHE, stakeholders have some interest within the project which is to be carried out
within University. Details of stakeholders of QAHE are provided beneath:
Sponsors: They are the individuals or organisations who have made their contribution in
terms of money for commencement of the event or project which is to be carried out QAHE
University. In return of this, they will show case their products as well as services. The reason
behind their attraction is that they have opportunity to advertise their goods to different people
who will be present within the event. For this, they have been invested financially within this
project (Sharp, Peters and Howard, 2017). The reason for them to stay stick to this event is that
they can draw in more number of customers for their services so that they can maximise their
productivity along with profitability.