Levi's: Project Manager

Running head: PROJECT INITIATION PLANNING AND EXECUTION
PROJECT INITIATION PLANNING AND EXECUTION
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Ace Project Tool..............................................................................................................................2
Project Management Plan................................................................................................................3
Initiation.......................................................................................................................................3
Planning.......................................................................................................................................4
Execution.....................................................................................................................................5
Control.........................................................................................................................................6
Closure.........................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Levi’s is one of the most known brands of clothing. Levi’s is a classic brand which
defined the essence of word ‘brand’. Levi’s was declared as ultimate brand for clothing as well
as staple to wardrobe all over the world in 2002 by Esquire magazine of UK. Secret behind
enduring success and magic of Levi’s is the ability in symbolizing both uniqueness and ubiquity
simultaneously. Levi’s is both fashion as well as anti-fashion. In spite of continued ubiquity,
brand of Levi had rocky ride recently (Farris, Shames and Mitchell 2017). There were several
issues for Levi’s company. For fully understanding them, this is important in appreciating
branding strategy of the organization. However, every issue for Levi’s was not in their
marketing. All Levi’s company could do was attempt and preserve integrity of their brand.
Levi’s company engaged in battle with supermarket of Tesco.
The aim of this paper is providing management plan for Levi’s company for making their
project successful. IPECC’s five stages would be used in this management plan for making this
project of Levi’s company successful one.
Ace Project Tool
Ace Project Tool could be efficient to manage project, timesheet ad task of Levi’s
company. This tool would allow in assigning reviews as well as assign the worker with the
deadlines for completing this project of Levi’s within time. This tool would also provide best
support for the customers of Levi’s company (Verma 2017). Also the price of this management
tool is reasonable, which would be beneficial for Levi’s company.

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Project Management Plan
At start of Levi’s project, amount of work as well as planning could seem overwhelming.
Dividing efforts of project management into phases could help in giving the efforts structure as
well as simplify these into series of manageable and logical steps (Su and Tong 2016). There
would be five phases for this project of Levi’s: initiation, planning execution, control and
closure.
Initiation
It is phase where this project of Levi’s would begin. This would provide overview of this
project as well as strategies which are needed for attaining the required outputs. This is phase
where business value and feasibility of this project of Levi’s would be determined. In initial
stage, this is crucial in understanding this project’s feasibility. It should be observed that if this
project would be viable from legal, operational, technical and economic aspects as well as
identifying the problems of this project would help in analyzing if these issues could be solved
by using proper solutions (Kang and Jin 2015). In this phase, scope of this project would be
identified which would involve defining depth, breadth and length of this project. It is also
crucial in outlining functions, tasks, services, features and deadlines. After identifying scope of
Levi’s project, deliverables of this project would be outlined. Deliverables of this project consist
of defining services or project that is required. It would be also essential to have detailed
identification of this project’s stakeholders. This is better in having meetings with the experts
and team members in identifying stakeholders of this project (Samuel et l. 2018). Relevant
information’s documentation on the stakeholder of this project is needed. Before developing
business care, essential pillars for this project like scope, stakeholders’ identification and
feasibility should be checked to make sure that they are in right place. Finally, this project’s