Project Management Plan for Office Move at Bathstore

This presentation provides a project management plan for the office move at Bathstore, including budget, resources, and stakeholders. The plan utilizes the lean startup model and the Six Sigma approach to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The new office design includes sections for customer queries, bathrooms, kitchen and accessories, and displays. The budget estimate is $70,000, and the project was successfully completed within the estimated budget.

Project
Management

INTRODUCTION
• Project management is an essential function or method that is used by business to bring a
innovation, manage and control any new business project effectively to achieve the goals
in a proper way (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). This presentation is in context to
Bathstore.com that is a leading specialist bathroom retailers in UK with around 164
stores all around the country. Various steps are involved in a project management plan
that will be included in this presentation related to the company. Furthermore, the report
will determine budget, method and other elements that are essential to complete the
project of office move.

IDEA OF THE PROJECT : OFFICE MOVE
• Proper management and planning are the
key to a successful moving of office like
any other major project (Harrison and
Lock, 2017). Bathstore needs to develop an
office relocation project plan after making a
decision to relocate the their office. This is
an essential element or step that needs to be
taken in a project of office move.

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ANALYSIS
• In order to move the office it is important to analyze each and every
element related to the moving of the project. As project manager I
selected 10 individuals from each department of the company to assist me
in this project (Planning office move, 2016). The project will focus
managing cost, time and resources effectively that will be required to
complete this project

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Key Stakeholders
• The major stakeholders for this project mainly includes five groups –
upper management, consulting firm, vendors employees and customers.
The upper management and employees are part of Bathstore, employees
represent managers and staff of various departments in the organization.
In order to use and install technologies in the new office IT department
will also play a vital role as an stakeholder.

THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
• In order to complete this project lean startup model has been used which is
very effective in creating a new product or in a start up. As a project
manager I did not spent much on research or generating idea for office
move. I validated a new office idea by developing a minimum viable
thought and strategies for the new office.

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• Other than Lean startup model, another theory of project management was
applied in office move, The Six sigma approach. It helped in improving
the activities and efficiency by reducing waste of resources in the project
and minimizing the cost.

Requirements
• Materials
• Government and general construction fees
• Physical office construction
• Communications

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• Security
• Physical move
• Customer and marketing methods
• Furniture and accessories

DESIGN
The new office of the Bathstore will be more stylish, consist of 4 sections
including
•Customer queries and help-desk
•Bathroom section
•Kitchen and accessories section
•Display section

Customer queries and help desk
• This section of the office is designed for
interacting with their customers,
identifying their needs and requirement
or solve any issues related to products
and services.

Bathroom section
• This section will be the most attractive area
that will demonstrate a luxury bathroom
setup. It will consist a real presentation of
bathroom fitting, design and accessories
which are offered by the Bathstore.

Display section
• It will consist a attractive display of
products such as washbasin, shower,
mirrors etc. Customer can look over all
small accessories or equipment in this
particular section as offered by
Bathstore.

Kitchen and accessories
• Along with bathroom accessories the
company also offer accessories for a
kitchen. This section will consist kitchen
related products and will displayed in this
area of the office.

Lights and electricity
• In order to present the products in
most attractive manner an effective
theme is designed for each section.
LED lights will be installed in the new
office to make it beautiful, bathroom
section will have a low light to create a
real experience for customers.

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• Display and kitchen section will consist powerful lights so that products
can look more effective and attractive. The help desk section will include
natural and low light.

Budget estimate
• Bathstore has 50 employees and the moving office will be charged $200 per employee. The
carpenters and painters were hired from the same company that charges $10/hour per employee
and the paint is $4/sq.ft. and the carpet is $.1/sq.ft. It is planned to rent a POD Storage Unit to
place the cubicles in so that workers can paint, carpet and have our IT team set up internal wires, at
a total cost of $300. The furniture will consist 20 chairs for the 4 private offices in each section, 10
desks for each, 10 cubicle chairs, 2 conference tables, 20 conference chairs, and 3 projectors for
each of the section. This brings our total expenses to $70000. In conclusion, our budget that we
should give Bathstore is $ 70000 so we have a little room in case the moving need to make any
changes to the variables including number of carpenters, boxes, or painters.

Final product
• The Bathstore office successfully moved to a new destination with
attractive features such as real experience to the customers, improved
structure, effective sections with most appropriate lighting effects, the
budget estimated was suitable for completion of the project.

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CONCLUSION
• The above report summarized a project management plan
for moving office in Bathstore company. There are various
important elements that needs to be considered in a
project such as budget, resources and stakeholders as
concluded form this report. Office move project for the
company was completed successfully with new design and
technology within the estimated budget

REFERENCES
• Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
• Harrison, F. and Lock, D., 2017. Advanced project management: a structured approach.
Routledge.
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• Planning office move. 2016. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.getkisi.com/guides/how-to-plan-an-office-relocation>.
• Project management. 2016. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.devono.com/project-management/>.

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