Project Management for In-House Catering: A Case Study

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
An overview of the given case study..........................................................................................3
Project life cycle..........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Project management refers to managing and organizing the resources which are needed in
order to complete the project. It has a complete life cycle under which various steps has been
performed. It is considered with an objective and all the activities are performed in order to
achieve that objective. The project life cycle has a fixed time frame under which the project has
been done. This report illustrates the concept of project management. The stages of project
management or project life cycle has been described. Each stage of the project management
involves large number of activities and all the activities are needed to be performed in efficient
manner, so the project management can take place efficiently. (Kerzner, 2019). The report also
highlights the project life cycle of in house catering under the large manufacturing organization.
The organization has decided to take up a project in order to perform their CSR towards the
employees and environment. The project manager will perform all the necessary steps of the
project life cycle with his team.
MAIN BODY
PART 2
An overview of the given case study
The case study highlights the issue facing by the large manufacturing organization. The
organization has strength of 1250 employees which are working in the different department of
the organization. The organization does not have a canteen facility. Therefore, the employees has
to go outside during the lunch break. The movement of staff during lunch breaks creating an
issue of congestion in local areas and reducing the productivity of the employees. The
organization has decided to take a project in order to provide in house catering facility to the
staff. The manager believes that making of canteen will result in solving the problem of creating
congestion in local areas and along with this helps in providing a healthy food to the employees.
This will result in healthy lifestyle of the employees and increase their productivity in the
organization. Through this, the organization will perform its CSR towards the environment and
employees.
The organization has decided to take a project of making canteen in the organization and
the project has been given to the project manager in order to perform the project life cycle of
making the canteen.

Project life cycle
Project life cycle refers to the complete management of the given project. (Blomquist, Farashah
and Thomas, 2018). The project manager will perform this cycle in order to provide canteen
facility to the employees of the organization. The manager will perform this project life cycle in
four steps which are project initiation, project planning, project execution and project closure.
Project initiation
This is the first step of the project cycle which is to be performed by the project manager. Under
this, the manager will analyse all the elements related to the making of canteen and assembles
the key resources. The manager will perform this step by keeping these elements in mind that are
mentioned below.
1. Key partners- This involves the suppliers who arrange the resources and the raw
materials for starting the project. The key partners for the firm will be the suppliers who
provide good quality of raw materials in less cost.
2. Goals– This describes the main objective of the project. The main objective of the
organization behind this project is reducing the absence of the employees by providing
them healthy lifestyle along with this one more goal of the firm is to perform CSR
towards environment by reducing the congestion problem.
3. Stakeholders- This refers to the investors and customers for the project. The investor for
the organization will be the shareholders and debentures who contribute in raising fund
for the project. (Kristen, D.N.P., and et.al.,2018). On the other hand, the customer will be
the employees of the organization. The firm assures that their customers get good amount
of satisfaction.
4. Roles & responsibilities- Under this, the project manager will allocate the roles and
responsibilities to all the members who are considered as the part of the project. The
responsibilities are delegated on the basis of the capability of the members.
5. Risk- It involves assuming the risk from the starting. (Hinnebusch, 2017). The firm may
face two types of risk and that is financial risk due to the shortage of finance and the risk
of changing business environment.
Project Planning