Implementing Lean Project Management for Building a Dream House - Desklib

This report discusses the implementation of lean project management for building a dream house using Prince2 methodology. It covers the choice of suburb, land size, builder, stakeholders, and factors influencing the design and layout of the house. It also provides an overview of project management processes and a detailed explanation of achieving lean project management. Subject: Project Management, Course Code: PPMP20009, College/University: NA

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Choosing the Suburb........................................................................................................2
Deciding the land size to buy...........................................................................................3
Choosing the best builder................................................................................................4
Identifying the stakeholders.............................................................................................4
Factors which will influence design and layout of dream home.....................................5
Project Management Processes........................................................................................7
Detail explanation for achieving Lean Project Management..........................................8
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The following report is all about implementing lean project management which is needed
for building a dream house. The project is supposed to be completed by the help of Keystart
initiative, which is an initiative from Australian government. The project is to be completed by
using prince 2 methodology which comprises of seven steps (Mousaei & Javdani, 2018). This
particular methodology begins in the startup phase of the project to closure phase project. Prince
2 stands for project in a controlled environment which is a structured project management
methodology. It is basically a program for the practitioner certification. It focuses on driving
projects into manageable and controlled stages. This particular methodology has been adopted in
most of the globally recognized organization of UK, western countries and Australia (Vaníčková,
2017). Prince2 methodology comes up with merely seven steps that are project setup, project
initiation, direct stages, managing stage boundary, project delivery, control stages and project
closure.
The coming section of the report deals with the choice of the suburb where the house will
be constructed. After that, a decision is made with respect to a particular land size which requires
to be bought. The next section of report deals with making a proper choice for the best builder
for constructor of choice. In addition, a list of factors has been discussed in details which will
influence the overall design and layout of the dream home. The last part of the report provides
project management process.
Discussion
Choosing the Suburb

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The choice of suburb for the construction of the house is Burswood. By making use of
Prince2 methodology, this particular project of house constriction will be done in this suburb of
Perth. The selection of the suburb comprises of seven steps of Prince 2 methodology. In the
staring phase, the land location for house construction is well defined (Siegelaub, 2017). In the
second stage that is initiation, proper selection of criteria is taken into consideration for selecting
the suburb. It merely outlines the project management strategies and control. In the third stage
that is project directing, it merely highlights the desired which should be followed by the project.
In the fourth stage, the day to day management of choice of the suburb is done for the present
project stage. In the fifth stage, the mere focus is all about focusing on product delivery which
focus on creating specialist product. In the sixth stage, the mere focus is all about managing the
stage boundaries. In this stage, the planning of house construction is done. The last phase of this
methodology is the project closing phase which is controlled in an orderly way. It is expected
that the average cost of land in Perth in around 3, 50,000 dollars (Tomanek & Juricek, 2015).
Buying land from real-estate investment can easily produce good returns. The negative side of
searching property with an agent is that seller has agreed to pay the required commission for the
sale. It will be merely reflected in the overall price of the land.
Deciding the land size to buy
The decision of required land size is mainly done by using Prince 2 methodology. In the
starting step, the overall fund value is calculated which is required for constructing the house at
this particular location (Jamali & Oveisi, 2016). In the initiation step, an outline has been
provided with respect to strategies and control to buy the land. In the third step, it clearly
highlights direction which should be taken for landing buying. In the fourth stage, day to day
management of the present project. The fifth stage is all about managing the delivery of project

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that focus on creating specialized products. The sixth stage is all about managing stage
boundaries where planning is done with respect to the choice of builder. In the last phase that is a
closing phase, the project is controlled in a proper way. In this house construction project, it is
expected that there will be 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a garage will be constructed. It
expected that 200-meter square area will be required for construction of house (Murillo Gomez
& Jiménez, 2018). In addition, there is list of aspects which should be taken into account like
creating a research for a cost which is associated with deciding the land to buy.
Choosing the best builder
The most vital decision is all about making a road for custom home which is the choice
of right builder. The choice of builder is mainly done by making use of Prince 2 methodology.
Quality is one of the vital aspects as the home is not a temporary residence. In the starting and
planning stage, the quality of raw material supplied by builder is taken into consideration. There
is need for finding a proper builder and design team with whom user can easily connect
(Coppola, D'Ambrogio & Gianni, 2016). Ideal team members can easily ask list of question so
that goals and vision can be understood.
The main aspect of longevity of home is its solid foundation and it is the duty of builder
to make choice for the high quality product. In the directing stage of the project, a proper
research is required to be done for the builder which can be bit confusing. In addition, there is
need of finding the location from builder portfolio and floor plan can be analyzed. In the
controlling stage, there is need of looking for complete transparency for the house construction
project (Kaczorek, Krzemiński & Ibadov, 2017). Most of the builder work with complete
transparency with answer to each of the question. In the project delivery phase, a list of question

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can be easily asked to the builder for house construction. The team will work hard to understand
the required product and design which will fit the lifestyle.
Identifying the stakeholders
The method of identifying the key stakeholder of a project requires detail planning which
is seen in the planning stage. It is important input which is needed for the project plan. This
merely comes up with two stages where each one has its own purpose. The first one is all about
identifying the individual key stakeholders of this house construction project. The second aspect
is all about analyzing the project relationship with each of the stakeholder (Oliveira, Tereso &
Santos, 2019). Another important aspect of this project is all about understanding the stakeholder
who is seeking into the project. Stakeholder is an individual who has an interest in the project
neglecting the overall interest for positive or negative. It can be stated as individual or
organization who are actively involved in project. Their interest is generally affected by
execution phase of the project. Project charter mainly describes the stakeholders along with their
interest which is either in the project or end-products. At this phase, it can easily merely provide
all the required information which is for both internal and external parties affected by project. It
merely comprises of project sponsor, team members and department. Stakeholder analysis is all
about identifying stakeholder who should receive the project communication. It merely focuses
on communication which they should receive and how they receive their level of interest and
their influence. There will be significant amount of differences in their interest for project.
Stakeholder analysis is merely divided into two stages that are stakeholder identification and
stakeholder impact assessment (Sanjuan & Froese, 2015). Stakeholder identification is all about
creating a list of who has interest and overall influence on this house construction project. In

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stakeholder impact assessment, the mere focus is all about analyzing the overall impact on the
project and then giving priority to it.
Factors which will influence design and layout of dream home
Planning of a design home is not considered to be an easy task. It merely requires enough
time and consideration for finalizing the home plan. There are ample of opportunities to hire the
reputed architecture and house design (Akhmetshin et al. 2019). Proper planning will mere
ensure that there are a perfect architecture and strength. There is a list of steps which should be
taken into account like
Location and Topography: It is an important point which should be analyzed before
house constrcution. If the house is constructed on road side, there is need of some tactics for
saving it from pollution and sound. If the house is constructed on the countryside, then the user
can easily dream of bungalow.
Future Planning: The house should be constructed considering the one-time investment
and people should think of their future. The designed house should have enough rooms for
children and grandchildren. So, there should be enough rooms for them in the upcoming days.
There is a need of having some space these days that can be done under the guidance of expert
architecture.
Roof Lanterns: This particular point should be taken into account at the time of
constructing the architecture of house roof pattern. All the areas should be check out where
majestic lantern make room for lights.
Priority Setting: At the time of planning of dream house, your ideas will not have any
kind of bound. All the priorities should be kept in mind so that it does not fancy any amok. There

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is a need of thinking the whole thing practically, the parents will require prayer room, extra room
for children studying and spacious kitchen (Oinarov & Eshimova, 2017). There are large number
of requirement which needs to be fulfil by use in logically way.
Light and Ventilation: Both light and wind aims a key role in influencing the deciding
architecture of the house. There is need of natural light and proper ventilation which should be
there in the living room, bedroom and kitchen. There are certain areas where enough amount of
time can be spent in the suitable direction (Hasibović & Tanović 2019). In addition, skylights
can be installed so that there can be maximum natural lights in the interior.
Creating a Vision: As soon as the designer have an idea for the functioning of space,
there is need of those requirement by which the client can create aesthetic and atmosphere. For
most of the designer, communicating the whole idea is adding different elements and pieces in
altogether.
Being thoughtful about materials and construction: Quality is an important aspect
where material and construction tend to affect experience of the finished room. Most of the good
quality material tend to have a feeling which is different poor quality material.
Project Management Processes
Project Management is the basis on which most of the construction project is founded. In
general, a construction project manager comes up with variety of skills so that it can navigate
through the whole project. It is merely done so that it can create a functional connection with
various teams. Construction project management can be stated as the direction and supervision
from the early development to the last stage that is completition (Babatunde, Perera & Zhou,
2016). The mere focus of construction project management is satisfying the need of the client

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considering client satisfaction. For the construction of the house, there are merely four steps
which are discussed below in details:
Initiation Phase of the Project: In the very first stage, the mere focus is all about
understanding the feasibility of the project. It is an important stage for the whole process which
highlight whether this house construction project is a good option. In addition, a feasibility study
is done that aims to provide proper solution plan which has been generated. As soon as, every
decision has been made, a proper project initiation document (PDI) is prepared (Tarhini, Yunis &
El-Kassar, 2018). The initiation document will provide the required groundwork which is needed
for constructional plan. This is considered to be as one of the vital aspect in project management.
Planning stage: The planning stage will highlight if the single team will highlight
whether the work of house construction can be done or not. This is found to be an ongoing
activity which is seen in the ending phase of the project. The mere focus is all about analyzing
priority during the planning stage for cost and resources for this house construction project
(KONONENKO & Aghaee, 2016). Depending on the need developing strategy which requires to
be followed which is defined as scope management.
Execution Stage: In this stage, the plan of house construction is put into work. This
particular stage is merely divided into two stages where the first one is execution and the second
one is monitoring and controlling. The project merely highlights that required task is being
performed (Kononenko & Lutsenko, 2018). In this project, a project manager will spend much of
its time in proper monitoring of the project based on the provided information.
Closure Stage: This can be considered to be last stage of the house construction which is
its competition. In this stage, the project manager will merely evaluate the good points in the

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project along with highlighting any kind of failure. In the last phase of the project, the team
comes up with any kind of risk about the allocated task which is completely unfinished (Sunder,
2016). Project report along with potential failures will be considered to be valuable feedback
required for any kind construction in the upcoming days.
Detail explanation for achieving Lean Project Management
Lean is the best model which is needed for managing the effective team members of this
house construction project. The biggest plus point of this methodology is that it is simple to
understand and can make a huge effect if it is implemented in proper way (Brioso, 2015). Lean is
completely based on five basic principles
Identifying the Value: As soon as the house building team has been prepared for change,
the lean manager need to identify the value from team work. User need to distinguish in between
the two that is value adding and waste activities. Lean highlights seven major kind of waste
which can be further distinguished as pure and necessary. The key difference in between is that
waste activities are important to support which is value adding (Sohi et al., 2016). On the
contrary, pure waste activities will merely bring harm to the given process of house construction.
Map Value Stream: As user have identified the value which is being created by team
members of house construction. It is vital to highlight the path of house construction to the
customer (house contractors). This is merely done by making use of Kanban boards which is
path pathing tool for house construction (Ansah. Sorooshian & Mustafa, 2016). At the time of
mapping the value stream for the very first time, the focus should be given on value-adding
stages.

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Creating a Flow: In case of lean project management, flow is considered to be the main
key component. Any kind of waiting is waste for creating flow of provided value and mere goal
is the smooth delivery along receiving the order at the very moment.
Creating a Pull: As soon as the flow of work has been created, there is need of creating a
pull system. The whole idea is very much simple as new phase of house construction will be
done only when there is demand for this.
Looking for Continuous Improvement: This is merely related to the idea of ongoing
improvement that is a part of integral lean management (Dave et al., 2016). The mere focus is
enhancing each and every stage of the team by addressing the activities which generate value.
Conclusion
From above, it can be concluded that report highlights on selecting and explaining project
management process that is either PMBOK or Prince2. The chosen methodology used for
selecting choosing the required suburb and making a decision for buying the land size. The best
builder is chosen by making use of either of two methodologies. The last part of the report deals
with identifying the list of stakeholder for the project. A proper discussion has been provided
with respect to factors which influence the overall design and layout of the dream home. The
construction of this house is done by using the Prince2 methodology. This particular
methodology is predictable as it breaks the whole project into a series of steps which is
monitored closely. It is generally done by making use of step by step process right from the
beginning of the project to its closure. It merely reduces any chance of project spiraling out of
control and completely revising of documents. In addition, it standardization each and every
aspect of the project so that they can ensure that there is no chance of misdirection. When

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prince2 methodology is completely revised for input form project management professional, it
mainly ensures that the lesson is gained by people of project management industry. When the
Prince2 methodology is revised an input is required from various project management
professionals from world-wide platform. It merely ensures that lesson gained by those
professionals are completely known in project management industry.

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