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Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENTComparison between management of Heathrow T5 project and the Denver projectStudent Name:University Name:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT1Table of ContentsKey challenges related to the projects.............................................................................................2Heathrow T5 Terminal project........................................................................................................2Denver International Airport project...............................................................................................2Key differences between the two projects.......................................................................................3Resources.........................................................................................................................................3People..............................................................................................................................................3Process.............................................................................................................................................4Assessment of Project manager role................................................................................................4Role of Project manager in the projects...........................................................................................4Handling of challenges as Project Manager....................................................................................5Approach for handling challenges...................................................................................................5References........................................................................................................................................7

PROJECT MANAGEMENT2Key challenges related to the projectsThis section illustrates on the key challenges associated with Heathrow T5 terminal andDenver International Airport project.Heathrow T5 Terminal projectThe project was undertaken to open up Terminal 5 within Heathrow Airport forincreasing the annual capacity to 95 million of passenger from 67 million. This project wascomplex in nature and had a numbers of challenges associated with it as it was a mega project.The project is considered to be failure due to lack of proper project management skills. One ofthe major key challenge was that it is the largest as well as complex project being undertaken bythe British Airport Authority (Davies, Gann and Douglas 2009). Another challenging task relatedto this project was accessing the ways as well as conditions of the site as those were physicallyconstrained and logically challenging. A special system was integrated that consisted of manydifferent technologies thus it was a challenging task to handle such system. The risk of costoverruns as well as time required for integration of new technology was also a major constraintin this project.Denver International Airport projectThis project was undertaken to develop an automated Baggage handling system whichwas to be the world’s largest but it is now only a classic story due to failure of the project. Themajor reason behind failure of this project was that the key decision makers underestimatedcomplexity of the project. The project was undertaken to the design the most complex systemthat has been ever attempted (Montealegre and Keil 2000). The complexity of the project was notrecognized properly as well as the risks associated with the project led to delay in initiation of

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