PROJ6003 Project Execution and Control | Blue Spider

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PROJ6003 Project Execution and Control
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Part B: Change Control
1.1 Changes required for the case study
After conducting discussion on project status and improvement that can be incorporated
are respectively compared by the project manager to implement the changes. Infact the
supervisor need to interview the stakeholders, employees and clients as well before
implementation of the changes. Brainstorming, storyboard analyses techniques must be used to
manage project changes. If requested valid changes are properly implemented then a project can
bring huge profit in their projects and business as a whole. It is defined that changes are
inevitable in nature. However, it does not mean that every stakeholder and clients are aware of
the changes project manager desire to incorporate in their project.
The specific changes essential for the project are elaborated in this section. The assigned
project manager Gary Anderson was experienced and skilled in R&D activities. Therefore,
before appointing the best manager their skills and experiences need to be checked. There was no
formal project schedule. Therefore, the project manager needs to prepare a project schedule after
considering the complexity of the individual project development activities.
There was insufficient communication between the project associates (Donovan, 2018).
These issues require to be changed to make sure that all useful information is shared among the
team associates. The job of Paul was to take most Research and development departmental
activities. Gary should have spent most of the time in managing other people. Before submitting
any design and improvement plan the managers need to conduct a discussion with Elliot.

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The stand by schedule should have been prepares based on slack time. After completion
and before execution of each stage the project manager needs to meet Lord Industry. Infact
electronic detail schedule sheet has to be used to make all other aware of the project
requirements.
1.2 Impact of changes on scope, time and budget
After analyzing the detail project case scenario it has been identified that the assigned
project manager Gary Anderson has no line authority on the functional organizational business
planning and its existing control system. The sponsor and owner of the Blue spider project is
Parks Corporation. The scope of the project is to increase overall capabilities of Spartan Missile.
The project was contracted by Lord Industries and Park Corporation and is subcontracted by
Army’s Spartan Program. It is analyzed that survival of Park Corporation is entirely dependent
on commercial benefits earned from the production program. The responsibility of the company
is to appoint the best production manager for the missile improvement project. The
administrative paper work was done but no balance was there because they were more focused
on the Research and Development activities.
The budget estimated at the early stage for this project was $500 Million and the total
time expected for completion was 20 years. The technical specifications considered for this
project were not effective enough. However, the technical requirements were not clear to the
other project associates. For this reason the time and budget both were interrupted and exceeded
the estimated values (Cameron & Green, 2019). There was ack of communication between the
project manager Gary Anderson and Lord Industries. It impacted the project scope negatively. In
order to handle the project the specific skills and experiences and skills required were absent in
Gary. In order to meet the design specifications new materials were needed but those were not

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incorporated. It was another obstacle for the missile design improvement project. The selected
manager was not suitable for this project.
Due to this reason lack of leadership and motivation were pointed as part of the project
failure. It has identified that; test matrix was not successfully validated. Thus, time and schedule
estimated earlier for the project both were impacted. Firm fixed price contract was used to
implement this project. This type of contract helps the project manager complete any project
within the estimated budget. However, after some progress it was identified that, the sponsor
requested for additional work (Mok, Shen & Yang, 2015). Due to additional requested work
additional budget was also found to be needed. Infact the contractual requirements were also not
done accurately. The prime contractor’s recommendations were also not enough effective. The
assigned resources were committed throughout the project scope throughout the development
lifecycle. It impacted scope, budget and time of the project positively.
2. Processes involved in submitting the request to deal with the changes
After analyzing the Blue Spider Missile improvement project it is determined that in
order to deal with the requested changes, the different processes those are important to
incorporate include in the below section:
 Lewin’s change model: The Lewin’s change model can separate the entire Blue
Spider project into three stages in terms of unfreeze, change and freeze. This
process is simple but very effective starting point to capture the actual operational
and functional challenges associates to the organizations and projects.