Project Management INTRODUCTION 1 MAIN BODY1 Project context 1 PESTLE analysis 5 GANTT chart 8 Risk analysis for the new project 15 Stakeholders management strategy 16 CONCLUSIONS 17 REFERENCES 17 CON

Project Management INTRODUCTION 1 MAIN BODY1 Project context 1 Rationale2 PESTLE analysis 3 Work breakdown structure 5 Gantt chart 8 Risk analysis for the project 11 Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted and Informed ( RACI) Matrix for the new project 15 Stakeholders management strategy 16 CONCLUSION 17 REFERENCES 18 INTRODUCTION Project management is a process of implementing arangeof methodologies, techniques and ideas in order complete a decided project activity (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016). Further, the

Project Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Project context.............................................................................................................................1
Rationale......................................................................................................................................2
PESTLE analysis.........................................................................................................................3
Work breakdown structure...........................................................................................................5
Gantt chart....................................................................................................................................8
Risk analysis for the project.......................................................................................................11
Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted and Informed ( RACI) Matrix for the new project
....................................................................................................................................................15
Stakeholders management strategy............................................................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Project management is a process of implementing a range of methodologies, techniques
and ideas in order complete a decided project activity (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016). Further,
project management can also be defined as a procedure of planning, executing, monitoring and
completing a project for the purpose of achieving set targets, goals and objectives. The present
project management plan includes plan of launching a new canned food product along with its
marketing. The planing report of the launching the product includes PESTLE analysis for
analysing influence of a range of external factors over manufacturing and marketing of the new
product.
Further, the report also shows work breakdown based structure along with the Gantt chart
of various activities to be preformed in the manufacturing and marketing of new product as to
enhance the productivity of performance. In addition, the plan is also based on the risk analysis
of the project in order to eliminate the risk involved. Various techniques and matrix for the
purpose of improving the planning and its implementation. Moreover, the planning reports also
shows stakeholder management strategy in order to analyse the involvement of various key
stakeholders, their importance in the project management and their interest in the project as well.
MAIN BODY
Project context
With the help of present project management development plan, a range of canned
products are being planned to manufacture and marketed as well. The report shows planning
procedure of manufacturing a range of premium soups in order to attract numerous customers.
Butternut Squash soup is premium soups that would be launched by Dunbia food
manufacturing company. It includes a range of healthy ingredients like Butternut, Garlic, carrots,
onion, etc. In addition, the soup is also liked and preferred by a large number of consumers in all
over the world. In this regard, launching the Butternut Squash soups will help in attracting a
large number of customers and enhance company's sales volume.
Further, another premium soup to be launched by Dunvia food manufacturing company is
French onion soup. The soup is made of olive oil and unsalted butter. These ingredients makes
the soup mild and full of sweetness as well (Fleming and Koppelman, 2016). The combination of
these two flavors makes the soup tasty. In order to this, launching this soup will also help the
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Dunvia in attracting a range of customers towards it and enhance its profitability and
marketability as well.
The major scope of manufacturing these premium soups as a canned product is to provide
these premium soups with the best quality. Further, with the help of these canned soups, the
company would be able to make the soups available to the customers in ready to use form
whenever and wherever they want. This quality of the canned soup will help in enhancing the
consumer's attraction towards the product. Dunvia will also make the healthier canned product
available at the wide range of retail and wholesale shops. It will enhance the ability of company
in reaching to a large number of customers.
In addition, the planned report also helps the company in developing effective marketing
strategy so as to creating awareness among the customers about the new canned soups
manufactured by Dunvia. With the help of developing effective marketing plans and procedures,
company's ability to sale a large number of food products in the market and enhance its market
share as well.
Rationale
The core reason behind choosing manufacturing a range of premium soups is it will help
the Dunvia in expanding its business. Furthermore, with the help of developing healthier soups
for the customers, will lead in improving the quality of products and services provided by firm to
its customers (alsh, Bhagavatheeswaran and Roma, 2019). The project management plan
includes analysis of various factors that are beyond the control of company but can have a major
impact over its business and its manufacturing and marketing procedure. It helps in development
of the most effective procedures and plans so as to reduce or eliminate the effect of these factors
over the results.
The planning report also help in identifying and analysing the competitors' strengths and
strategies so that Dunvia could improve its policies of attracting customers towards it and
improve the market share and profitability as well. In addition, it will also help in enhancing the
number of loyal customers in order to improve company' sustainability. The present project
management plan includes a range of market research. It helps in analysing the needs and
demands of the potential and targeted customers. Further, with the help of this this analysis, taste
and preference of the customers will also be analysed with the help of which company would be
able to develop the premium soup as per the taste and preference of customers so that the
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company could develop its new soups accordingly and fulfill the needs and demands of
customers effectively.
Cost analysis is also involved in the project management plan. For this purpose, each
activity to be performed by the business for launching their new product and develop effective
marketing strategies is being analysed (Modarres, 2016). It resulted in preparation of the budget
of the whole budget so that the company could maintain sufficient amount of resources and
maintain smoothness in the flow of all the activities. In this order, with help of the project
management plan, the Dunvia food manufacturing company would be able to deliver a standard
range of canned soups of premium range. In addition, it will also lead in achieving company's
goals and objectives in more effective way.
PESTLE analysis
With the help of PESTLE analysis, the Dunvia would be able to analyse various factors
that could effect the performance of various activities of launching the new products and
marketing plans as per the project management plan. This analysis helps in analysing those
influencing factors that are beyond the control over the company. In this regard, the company
would be able to eliminate all those resources in effectively. The PESTLE analysis of
manufacturing and marketing range of premium soups by Dunvia food manufacturing company
can be analysed as under:
Political factors:
Political factors refers to interference of political parties in the company's business.
Frequent Change in the political parties can also affect the business, as it leads in frequent
change in the government's policies for the business which results in making the company to
change their own policies as per amendments of the government (Hyatt, 2018). As the UK
contains a political stability, this factor does not have much effect over the innovation procedure
of the company.
Environmental factors:
Environmental factors includes wasteful activities of the company, various strategies
developed by the company in order to enhance the environmental condition of the company.
Taking care about the environmental factors while developing procedures of the new premium
soups developed by the company reflects the appealing the large number of customer's mind. In
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this regard, this factor can have a huge impact over the sales and consumer attracting power of
the Dunvia. For eliminating effect of this factor, it should develop the packaging procedure of
the canned product in such a way so that it includes a minimum amount of plastic and other
harmful substance. It would help in gaining attraction of eco minded customers and target them
as well.
Social factors
Social factors includes taste and preference of population, segmentation of population on
the basis of their age, emphasis of the population towards health consciousness, etc. these factors
can impact the manufacturing process and decision making of the Donvia in choosing the variety
of premium soups to be developed by it for the further expansion purpose (PEST Analysis
Example for the Food Industry, 2018). In this order, Social factors have a great influence over
the project management plan of manufacturing and marketing new premium soups in the
market.
Technological factors
Technological factors includes using latest technological equipments in the
manufacturing process of the new canned soups. Use of latest technology in the manufacturing
process can reduce the cost to be incurred by the Dunvia in manufacturing premium soups and
their packaging as well. Moreover, using latest technology for the marketing purpose can
influence the customer attraction power. In this regard, this factor also have a major influence
over the project management procedure of the Dunvia. Although, influence of this factor can be
reduced by the way of analysing the latest technology and implementing them in the project
performance as well.
Legal factors
A company needs to comply with numerous rules regulations and legislation while
performing their business activities. In this order, while performing activities of launching
premium range canned soups, the Dunvia would also need to comply with various legislation
such as health and safety law, packaging and labeling standards, waste management laws, food
and safety standards, etc. further, as non compliance of any of the above laws my lead in
attracting legal penalties over the company. In this regard, this factor also have a huge impact
over the project management procedures that can only be reduced by complying each and every
legislation and standards applicable on it.
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Economical factors
Economical factors includes inflation rate of the country. It also includes saving capacity
and spending power of the population. All these factors have direct influence over the
company;'s sales, profitability and marketability as well. In this regard, it may have a huge impat
over the project management procedures. Further, for the elimination of its influence, the before
launching the new canned soups, Dunvia food manufacturing company first needs to analyse
overall country's economical situation and set the price of product accordingly.
Work breakdown structure
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Task
Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors Cost
Auto
Schedule
d
Generation of new ideas 9 days Mon 20-05-19 Thu 30-05-19 $31
Auto
Schedule
d
Setting up vision and
mission 3 days Mon 20-05-19 Wed 22-05-19 $4
Auto
Schedule
d
Determination of objectives
and goals 2 days Thu 23-05-19 Fri 24-05-19 2 $12
Auto
Schedule
d
Cost analysis of overall
project management plan 4 days Mon 27-05-19 Thu 30-05-19 2,3 $15
Auto
Schedule
d
Analysis of market 13 days Fri 31-05-19 Tue 18-06-19 1 $54
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Auto
Schedule
d
Analyzing various market
conditions 5 days Fri 31-05-19 Thu 06-06-19 3 $14
Auto
Schedule
d
Analysis of needs and
demand of customers 4 days Fri 07-06-19 Wed 12-06-19 6 $20
Auto
Schedule
d
Determination of consumer
preference 4 days Thu 13-06-19 Tue 18-06-19 3,7 $10
Auto
Schedule
d
Identifying range of
premium soups 3 days Fri 31-05-19 Tue 04-06-19 3 $6
Auto
Schedule
d
Selection of the best soups
to be manufactured 3 days Wed 05-06-19 Fri 07-06-19 9,4 $4
Auto
Schedule
d
Product development 22 days Wed 19-06-19 Thu 18-07-19 5 $56
Auto
Schedule
d
Identification of the best
recipe of the selected
premium soups
4 days Wed 19-06-19 Mon 24-06-19 8,9 $7
Auto
Schedule
d
Determining various
ingredients of products 3 days Tue 25-06-19 Thu 27-06-19 12 $3
Auto
Schedule
d
Making availability of each
ingredients 6 days Fri 28-06-19 Fri 05-07-19 12,13 $19
Auto
Schedule
d
Identifying the innovation in
the selected soups if possible 6 days Mon 08-07-19 Mon 15-07-19 12,14 $17
Auto
Schedule
d
Developing the best
procedure of premium soups 3 days Tue 16-07-19 Thu 18-07-19 12,15 $10
Auto
Schedule
d
Team development 18 days Fri 19-07-19 Tue 13-08-19 1,11 $32
Auto
Schedule
d
Identifying need of workers
for new project development 2 days Fri 19-07-19 Mon 22-07-19 3,10,16 $3
Auto
Schedule
d
Determination of need of
new employees 2 days Tue 23-07-19 Wed 24-07-19 18 $6
Auto
Schedule
d
Conducting recruitment and
selection procedures. 7 days Thu 25-07-19 Fri 02-08-19 18,19 $8
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Auto
Schedule
d
Selecting the best candidates
for appropriate job position 3 days Mon 05-08-19 Wed 07-08-19 20 $7
Auto
Schedule
d
Segregation of work 4 days Thu 08-08-19 Tue 13-08-19 18,21 $5
Auto
Schedule
d
Developing teams as per the
segregated tasks 3 days Thu 08-08-19 Mon 12-08-19 18,19,21 $3
Auto
Schedule
d
Packaging 21 days Fri 19-07-19 Fri 16-08-19 5,11 $20
Auto
Schedule
d
Analysis of rules and
legislation regarding
packaging
2 days Fri 19-07-19 Mon 22-07-19 10,16 $6
Auto
Schedule
d
Analysing the latest
strategies for packaging
purpose
4 days Fri 19-07-19 Wed 24-07-19 8,10 $6
Auto
Schedule
d
Setting the best packaging
process 4 days Tue 13-08-19 Fri 16-08-19 26,23 $8
Auto
Schedule
d
Risk analysis 27 days Mon 19-08-19 Tue 24-09-19 5,24 $44
Auto
Schedule
d
Analysis of the risks
involved in project
management process
5 days Mon 19-08-19 Fri 23-08-19 3,26 $7
Auto
Schedule
d
Development of effective
plans and procedures for
eliminating risk involved
7 days Mon 26-08-19 Tue 03-09-19 29,25,27 $5
Auto
Schedule
d
Tracking all the project
management activities 6 days Mon 19-08-19 Mon 26-08-19 1,5,17 $8
Auto
Schedule
d
Identification of gaps 3 days Wed 04-09-19 Fri 06-09-19 31,30 $5
Auto
Schedule
d
Development of effective
control measures 5 days Mon 09-09-19 Fri 13-09-19 31,32 $7
Auto
Schedule
d
Implementation of the best
strategies and plans 7 days Mon 16-09-19 Tue 24-09-19 33,22 $12
Auto
Schedule
d
Completion of project 2 days Wed 25-09-19 Thu 26-09-19 34,28 $5
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Gantt chart
Gantt chart
The Gantt chart refers to a diagrammatic presentation of all the activities that would be
performed by the company in its project completion (Ong, Wang and Zainon, 2016). It also
shows cost to be involved in each activities of the planning and its implementation. In addition,
the Gantt chart also helps in tracking the shortest way of completing the project with the help of
critical path.
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Critical path
Critical path refers to a diagrammatic presentation of showing the smallest way of
completing any task.
Risk analysis for the project
Risk Impact of
risk
Severity Responsibil
ities
Mitigation
actions
Progress action
Insufficient
finance
High High, as
insufficienc
Financial
manager
The
financial
It will help in smooth
running of each activities
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y of
financial
resources
can result in
failure of
implementin
g various
plans and
procedure
which can
fail the
whole
project
managers
should make
an in depth
research of
each and
every
activities
and develop
the budget
accordingly.
and resolving the impact
within 5-7 days.
Failure of
appropriate
research
High High, as it
can result in
failure of
the whole
project.
Research
and
developmen
t department
Each core
elements of
the market
and
consumers
must be
analysed
properly.
It will help in developing
the most effective project
development plan. The
impact could be resolved
in 6-9 days.
Change in
preference
of
customers
Medium High, as
change in
preference
result in
lowering the
sales
volume and
profitability
of company.
Market
analyst
Each factor
affecting
consumers
must be
analysed
properly and
predictions
of consumer
protection
It leads in selecting the
most appropriate soup to
be developed in the
company through which
impact of it could be
resolved in 5- days.
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must be
developed
properly .
Change in
political
terms
Medium Low, as due
to political
stability, the
chances of
changing
political
terms is
quite low.
Managemen
t personnel
Political
situations
and
conditions
should be
analysed
and
predicted in
an
appropriate
manner.
This will help in smooth
running of overall project
management function and
resolving the issue in 3-5
days.
Natural
disasters
Low Medium,
natural
disaster
could
merely
affect the
food
innovation
plan.
Project
managers
Areas
affecting
any natural
disasters
should be
analysed in
advance.
Further,
appropriate
strategies to
overcome
those effects
must be
developed
in advance.
It will help in
safeguarding each project
equipment and resolve the
impact in 2-4 days.
Technical High High, as Technicians It will help in resolving
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issues failure of
any
manufacturi
ng plant or
equipment
can result in
failure of
whole
project
management
procedure.
must
analyse all
the technical
issues in
advance and
make all the
equipment
ready to use
in case of
occurring
any of the
technical
issue.
the impact within 2-5
days.
Agiles methodologies
Agile methodology is used in the team management procedure. Agile helps in proper
analysis of the various procedures of project, interaction among all the workers and the planning
tools, implementation of range of plannings and strategies in the workings, taking response from
all the workers and developing controlling measures and implementing them accordingly (Agile
Model & Methodology: Guide for Developers and Testers. 2019).
Adoption of this methodology leads in gaining the best results from implementation of
all the plans in the most effective manner and gaining the best results from the project
management procedures so as to achieve the goals and objectives.
Prince 2
It is one of the methodologies of project management for enhancing the project
management skills. It involves principles processes and themes. The word PRINCE stand for
Projects in Controlled Environment. The PRINCE 2 methodology segregates the project into
multiple phases, each of the phase having its own plan and procedure to follow and implement
(Tomar, 2018). This methodology describes the output and input of every phase so that no
activity in a project is left to chance. This could be used by the company for managing its project
because of its suitable characteristics :
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 Clear and definite allocation of responsibilities
 It focusses more on the questions such as why, who and when
 it facilitates greater control of organisational resources
 it is consistent, properly organised & planned
 It provides project manager to regularly review the justification cycles.
Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted and Informed ( RACI) Matrix for the new project
RACI matrix describes the participation by different roles in completing a task or a
project in an organisation. It is an acronym which is created from the four words that are
responsibility, accountability, consulted and informed. The purpose of this matrix is to clearly set
out the roles and responsibilities in a departmental and crosswise departmental projects and
processes (Tonchia, 2018). The elements of the RACI matrix in relation to the project of
launching a range of new soups are discussed in brief below :
 Responsible : This category includes the person who completes the tasks or a project. In
the project of the company that intends to launch a new range of soups will identify a
person or group of person that could be held responsible for the completion of the project
such as marketing manager would held responsible for all the marketing strategies
formulation and implementation for the new product range.
 Accountable : A person is said to be accountable who has a final say yes or no in relation
to the delegated authority. This [person is answerable for the completion of task or
project precisely and correctly. In the organisation, the project manager would be
accountable for the accurate execution of project of introducing a new range (How [&
Why] To Implement The Raci Matrix, 2019).
 Consulted : This element of the matrix is concerned with the issue that who needs to be
consulted for any problem that may arise during the project execution. This person is
basically an advisor to a project. For example, the production of new food item can be
consulted regarding the storing and the quantum of ingredients that could be used in the
soups for ascertaining how long the soup can be stored before it has be thrown away.
 Informed : This stage in the RACI matrix is concerned with the matter that who shall be
informed all the time if any modification or amendment has been made to a project. For
example, accounting and finance department of the company intending of introducing a
new product range has to be made aware of any changes made in the project, so that this
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department can make changes in their operations accordingly and can update the
documentation & processes aptly (Aragonés-Beltrán, García-Melón and Montesinos-
Valera, 2017) .
Stakeholders management strategy
Stakeholders Impact Involvement Interest Blocking
Investors High They provides
sufficient amount
of finance to the
company.
Invetors gets
interest on the
amount invested.
Not providing
finance for
development
purpose.
Technicians Medium They help in
developing latest
equipments for
company
They get salaries
from the
company.
By not taking
care of company's
equipments.
Managing
directors
High They provides
appropriate
directions to each
workers
They get salaries
along with
commission on
success of
project.
By failing in
providing
direction to the
worker.
Project managers High They transforms
all the plans of
managing
directors to other
workers.
They gets their
salaries from
company.
By not
developing
effective
strategies for the
project.
Head chefs Medium They develop
innovated recipe
for premium
soups.
The company
provides them a
fixed amount of
salary (Hester,
By not
developing
appropriate recipe
for the soups.
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2015).
CONCLUSION
From the analysis of above project management plan, it can be concluded that with the
help of project management plan, the company can develop the most effective plan for the
expansion purpose. Dunvia has analysed all the factors affecting the expansion plan. Further it
has make risk and stakeholders analysis with the help of which it has developed the best plan for
the launching new products. It has also developed gantt chart and critical path through which it
has identifies the smallest way to complete the project.
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