Project Management: Case Study for Project Management Assignment Spring 2019

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Project management: Case Study for Project Management Assignment Spring 2019
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Definition of project, management and project management..........................................................2
1. Sample project initiation document.............................................................................................3
2. Work breakdown structure..........................................................................................................7
2.1 Definition of Work breakdown structure...............................................................................7
2.2 Work breakdown structure....................................................................................................7
2.3 Importance of critical path analysis.......................................................................................9
3. Risk management.........................................................................................................................9
3.1 Definition of risk with example.............................................................................................9
3.2 Definition of risk management with proper explanation.....................................................10
3.3 Risk register.........................................................................................................................10
4. Report to the project sponsor.....................................................................................................14
4.1 Discussion about strong leadership in a project..................................................................14
4.2 Strengths and weaknesses and project methodology with recommendation.......................14
5. Gantt chart with explanation......................................................................................................17
6. Stakeholder analysis..................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................20

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Definition of project, management and project management
According to Kerzner and Kerzner (2017), a project is defined as an activity that helps in
meeting the development of unique product or service and therefore the activities that are
generally undertaken are helpful in accomplishing the routine activities which cannot be
considered as projects. The examples of failed, successful as well as the project that is in
progress is mainly reflected below:
Example of failed project: The NHS’ civilian IT project that is mainly founded for the
healthcare system in England.
Example of successful project: The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) establishes
consistent as well as reliable data for informing the financial as well as resource decisions.
Example of project that are in progress: Sydney Metro (NSW) is now the current
project that is presently in progress.
On the other hand, it is stated by Kaiser et al. (2015) that management is defined as the
combined as well as interchanged procedures of planning, decision making, leading, motivation
as well as controlling the human resources for reaching the goal within an organization.
Assets are generally defined as an item or entity that generally has the potential of
providing value to an organization. Physical assets usually refers to equipment, properties as well
as inventory that is needed by the organization (Burghate 2018). If proper physical assets are not
supplied on time then the date of project delivery can get delayed.
Project management is defined as one of the practice of initiating, planning, executing,
controlling as well as closing the work of the project tem in order to achieve proper goals and for
meeting the success criteria of the project within the specified time.

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1. Sample project initiation document
Document Information
Project name: The name of the project is to organize an event for the university that
provides excellent learning environment
Date: 01-04-2019
Author: <Please Fill>
Owner Project board members
Version: <Please fill>
Approval
Date Name and Signature
28/03/2019 Managing Director
30/01/2019 Director of Operations

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Definition
Background: QA higher education has generally completed refurbishment
of various teaching rooms as well as computer labs for
ensuring that the student as well as staffs of the university are
able to get proper environment of learning for accessing the
latest technology for supporting their studies as well as
teaching. The university generally wishes to launch an event
to attract the students for celebrating the success of the
project.
Main Goal: The main goal of the project is to attract the students for
making the university much more competitive.
Desired Outcomes: The university arranges an event for publicizing the learning
environment of the university that was created in order to
attract more number of students and for making the university
much more competitive.
Constraints and
Assumptions:
CONSTRAINTS:
 If the project manager are unable to finish the project
within the assumed budget and time then the progress
of the project get obstructed.
 If the stakeholder expectation are not met then they

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will not work effectively in the project.
ASSUMPTIONS:
 It is assumed that the project will be completed within
the budget that is around £50,000.
 As per the assumption of the project manager, the
project will get completed within 34.5 days.
Interfaces: To achieve the goal of enhancing the number of student in the
university
Project Approach: USING THE 4D PM MODEL: It is found that the project
utilizes this model in order to successfully define, design,
deliver as well as develop the project quite effectively.
Project Product Description: It is found that the event that was mainly organized in
order to publicize the learning environment that the
university provides to its staffs and students. The event
will scheduled during the fresher’s first week in
September and it is assumed that the project will be
completed within the budget that is provided.
Stakeholder List: The stakeholders who are mainly involved with the