Skills and Stakeholders in Smart City OS Project

Project Management
Essentials

INTRODUCTION
Project Management is a procedure involves number of critical actions and activities
which are needed to be performed in order to complete the project in assigned time and with
effectiveness and efficiency. The project management process is a supervising act which enable
the management to take up best practices and actions in order to make the involved tasks a
success and finish the project best suited manner. The assignment is a Consultancy Report over a
Smart City Operating System (OS) Project. In regards to the case study, A city named Hull is
conducting journey to become a smart city for which it requires the combination of two key
components technology and discipline. In last 12 months the city have gone through varied
changes which will be leading it to become the Smart City. Hence, in may the a new project
called as Smart City OS project is launched which is focused over to build a smart operating
system for the city as part of its development plans and offering real benefits to the communities
and people or population of it.
The report below is inclusive of number of segments involving varied information related
to the making the project a success. To being with the light is drawn over the skill of project
manager require to lead and complete the project and make it a success. Moreover, information
related to key stakeholders and their engagement within the project is made clear by developing
a stakeholders map. Then moving further in the assignment focus is made over the project
triangle and the importance of its parameters for managing the project of Smart City OS in the
best suited manner. Moving along risks register is developed with identifying 10 risks and then
conflicts are discovered as well their solutions are provided too. In the end, the importance,
development and management of a diverse team is overlooked by the using the Tuckman's Team
Development process.
TASK 1
Critically discuss what skills the project manager of the Smart City OS project needs to develop
to be effective. Reflect on possible actions the project manager of the Smart City OS
project should take to develop those skills.
A Project Manager is the individual with whole bundle or roles and responsibilities to
be performed in favour of making the project a success and attaining all respective objectives in
favour of keeping up with the overall agenda of the same. Hence, a Project Manager have to be

highly skilled and knowledgable for carrying forwards their roles and contributing to effective
completion of the whole project. As the managing individual of the project, the manager has the
key role to be played in parts for taking the project to success and making the best of their skill
sets. In relation to the same the Project Manager of the Smart City OS Project do have the
responsibilities to keep up with some capabilities and competencies in favour of attaining the
aims and objectives of the same. The varied form skills required by a Project Manager within the
Smart City OS Project in order to complete it and extract the best results are as follows: Leadership Skills- The skill to lead and significance of being a leader with followers who
appreciate and appraise the work performed by them is a unique ability of an individual.
The leadership skill is a basic one for a Project Manager to have for effective
administration and regulation of different tasks and team members performing them. The
manager of Smart City OS Project have to be a potential and competent leader in order to
run the project successfully. Planning Skills- A project which is being conducted and involves number of tasks as
well as resources requires effective planning as well for making the best and most
productive use of resources and bringing the best outcomes. Thus, a Project Manager is
essentially requires to hold the expertise in making plan as the base of a successful
project is its successive planning and strategies developed. Research and Development Skills- A Project Manager is the one who will be
overlooking on the whole project of Smart City OS. That means the manager has to be
skilled enough to work with multiple skills and over varies task. Thus, skill set of a
Project Manager involves essential needs for them to be good in research and
development as the manger will be the one making plan and therefore, their abilities to
make the best research will be supporting their planning and strategy development
practices and enabling them to make critical decision while working with in-depth
knowledge and understanding. Collaboration Skills- As the skill of a Project Manager is discussed, they need to be
matched with their responsibilities and roles played. The Project Manager is responsible
for success of the whole project and this raises another requirement for them to be
effective enough in keeping the whole project collaborated and aligned. This is another