Lean Project Management for House Construction in Ashfield

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Table of Contents
1. Choosing of the Project management process.............................................................................2
2. Designing.....................................................................................................................................5
3. Details of achieving lean project management for this project...................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................9

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1. Choosing of the Project management process
a. Choosing the suburb location
The chosen suburb for building the house is Ashfield. Selection of this suburb was not an
easy process. Usage of PMBOK project management process is implemented in completion of
the suburb location selection near Perth, Western Australia. For selection of the suburb location,
5 project phases are initiated. The phases are namely Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring
and Closing (Nanayakkara, Udawattha & Halwatura 2017). In the initiation phase the
requirement of the location in which the house is to be built is well defined. After the initiation
phase, usage of the planning stage was considered. In this stage, proper selection of the criteria
that are to be kept in mind during selection of the suburb location was decided. The criterions
were namely location of the suburb and the distance of the suburb from Perth, Western Australia.
Another criteria that was acting important in the process was median price that will be required
for buying the plot and hence wise construct a house on it (Jung & Kang 2017). These were the
major criterions that were included in the planning process of suburb plot selection. In the
execution stage, different locations were visited. This will be ensuring that the different planned
criterions will be checked. It was Ashfield, which was having one of the most convenient
communication process from Perth, Western Australia. It was only 18 minutes-drive away from
the city center. In case public transport was considered it was only 37 minutes away from the
location. Another criterion of cost that will be required for construction process is also
calculated. It was seen that it takes an average of $455,000 for buying of the plot, which was
highly satisfying the set criteria. After this stage monitoring of the process was performed
regarding the location of the land in Ashfield. In this phase, earned analysis of the land will also
be calculated. After this stage in a plot in Ashfiled was bought as the closing phase.
b. Deciding the land size
Deciding the land size is highly processed with implementation of the PMBOK project
management processes. In the planning stage, the main aspect that is considered is that
understanding the fund that can be allotted acts important. In the planning stage, proper
understanding of the number of rooms that will be required to be built is discussed. This session
also includes the fact that proper understanding of the required land size will be established.

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Another aspect that will be considered in the planning section will be the number of bathrooms
and balconies required was planned. In the execution stage, the main aspect that was considered
is the dimensions in which the home will be constructed is decided. The requirement was that of
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and double remote garage is also required. It is estimated that a total of
230m2 will be required and hence wise a plot of 230m2 was the decided land size. After deciding
the land size a design layout will be framed as the monitoring process which will be helping in
better sectioning of the land and hence wise the land size can be utilized. In case the land
satisfies the layout, it can be stated that the land size can be confirmed. After this monitoring
stage the land will size dimension wise will be confirmed as the closing stage.
c. Choosing the best builder
Choosing of the builder acts as a major aspect that will be increasing the quality of the
building process. In the selection of the builder process, proper assessment of PMBOK phase’s
implementation was very useful. In this case project initiation process acts very important. In this
case the main aspect that is considered is that the fund that can be allotted for the completion of
the project is stated (Kang & Jung 2017). After this stage, the planning stage occurs. In this case
the main aspect that is considered is that the specialties as well as the requirement of the building
construction will be decided and the fund that can be provided will be confirmed. The time that
can be allotted for completion of the construction process is also decided in this section. After
this stage execution process comes. Proper advertisement regarding the project is performed in
order to attract different builders who can take up the construction process. After the
advertisement is provided proper analysis of the resume of the building groups which have
shown interest in the project will be performed (Sivunen et al, 2015). This will help in selecting a
handful of builders and hence wise perform the select a list of builders. After selecting the
builders they will be provided with the briefing of the project. Hence wise they will be told to
send tenders regarding the project. After sending of the tender, it will be highly scrutinized and
analyzed. The builders with best tender report will be selected, after selecting a few builders the
past track record of the builders will be checked and hence wise a few among the remaining
builders can be chosen. After the execution phase, in the monitoring phase the main aspect that is
considered is that chosen sent if builders will be developing the layout and that will be
monitored. After checking of the design lay out the final selection will be made which will also