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The Operational Improvement Direction

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ARABTECProject Management in ArabtecName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note

1PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ARABTECTable of Contents1. Introduction....................................................................................................................22. The operational improvement direction (lean vs agile) of Arabtec Construction LLCin terms of business goals that are sought to be achieved...............................................23. The current operations management system and analysis of the operationalcapabilities of Arabtec Construction LLC..........................................................................44. Discussion of existing problems and weaknesses in the current operationsmanagement system towards becoming leaner of agiler..................................................45. Discussion of how the operations management system can be reoriented to beable to achieve the business goals for the Arabtec Construction LLC..............................86. Discussion of how the suggested changes should be implemented...........................107. Conclusion...................................................................................................................118. References..................................................................................................................12

2PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ARABTEC1. IntroductionArabtec Construction LLC is a construction firm based in UAE. They arewilling to enhance the business activities of their construction company. They havedecided to follow the agile project methodologies.The report will focus on the operational improvement direction of Arabtec bytaking up the agile project management. The capabilities and the benefits that agileproject management can offer will be explained in the report. The problems thatArabtec can offer will be highlighted as well. The procedures applying which thecurrent operations management can be embellished will be explained along with thesuggested changes.2. The operational improvement direction (lean vs agile) of ArabtecConstruction LLC in terms of business goals that are sought to beachievedLean and Agile project management can enhance the business activities ofArabtec Construction LLC (Arabtec). Both the lean and agile methodologies havecertain similarities and the differences (Dyba, Dingsoyr and Moe 2014). There areabout five lean principles associated which can assist Arabtec to conduct thebusiness operations and those principles are a specific value, perfection, pull,identification of the value stream and the flow. The value is identified based on thecustomers’ wish or demand. Afterwards, once the value gets detected, the valuestream is defined by the non-value added actions, as well as the value-addedactions and the value stream, can be calculated by the product manufactured fromthe scratch and reaching out to the hands of the customers. The value flow can helpto discriminate the value-adding activities, non-value adding activities and theenablers (White and Fellow 2014). The non-value adding activities are eliminatedand after those value-adding activities getting eliminated the wastes get eliminated.Later when the customer needs it, the value is handed over to the customer. Thereare several types of lean wastes which must be removed for efficiently conductingthe business activities within Arabtec. In the construction industry when excess production occurs, the excessmaterials get accumulated, this excess production must be mitigated if possible, theremoval of this excess production can effectively reduce the cost of the production

3PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ARABTEC(Larson and Gray 2013). The lean project methodology is responsible for eliminatingthe wastage of time, eliminates the waste time due to the various kinds of approvals.Generally, lots of time gets wasted due to the transport of the construction materialsand parts of Arabtec. Thus the transportation facilities must be eased and thetransportation must be on the basis of JIT principle (Conforto et al. 2014). Theinventory wastes must be properly maintained that means the finished products andthe products that are under construction and the raw materials involved must betaken into consideration as that can save dollars for the company. The defectiveproducts or the defective materials that fail to meet the expectations of thecustomers’ demands and thus it is considered as waste, thus the adoption of leanproject management can help Arabtec for good and removing the waste thebusiness operations of Arabtec can be embellished. The agile project management can act as an effective tool for theimprovement of the business operations. There are various agile services and agilevalues associated with the Agile Software Development -the individuals, the workingsoftware, the user's collaborative approach, response (Schwalbe 2015). Theconstruction industry is evolving every day adopting new technologies and the newtools. By adopting these new technologies, the stakeholders and the team memberscan get their job done. The workings must be done in accordance with thedocuments made and according to the customers’ demands and the customers’requests (Serrador and Pinto 2015). The contract is made between the customerand the builder of the construction industry. To make the communications smoothwith the customers, the builders must learn the LP system and should makenecessary changes in the project as per proposed by the customer. After thediscussion is made, the project must be completed as per the customers’ demandsand modifications should be made as per customers’ wishes. After getting approvalfrom the customers the builders must carry on their workings and finish the project.After finishing the entire project, the project should be handed over to the customers(Hoda and Murugesan 2016). In case of LP systems, weekly plans are made andbased on the plan, the employees must communicate with the customers regularly tosuccessfully accomplish the project goals.

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