Evaluation of Project Management Plan for Amalgamation of City of Swan with Shire of Mundaring

Project Management Plan

Contents
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Project Background....................................................................................................................5
Contents of PMP........................................................................................................................6
Project Cost Management.......................................................................................................6
Project Procurement Management.........................................................................................7
Project Scope Management....................................................................................................9
Project communication Management.....................................................................................9
Scheduling............................................................................................................................10
Quality Management Plan....................................................................................................11
Risk Management Plan.........................................................................................................12
Human Resources Management...........................................................................................13
Conclusion................................................................................................................................14
Recommendations....................................................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................16

Executive Summary
This project has focused on evaluating the project management plan of amalgamation of City
of Swan with Shire of Mundaring. The evaluation has been done on the basis of the Guide to
the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide). PMBOK is an inclusive
guide that describes the knowledge within the profession of project management. The major
elements of the amalgamation project that have been included in this report are – Project
scope management, Quality Management Plan, Risk Management Plan ,Human Resources,
Scheduling ,Project communication Management, cost management and the project
procurement. The overall evaluation indicates that the amalgamation project was effective
enough and it was consistent with the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK Guide). There were however some of the elements in the scheduling, cost
management, procurement and the risk management that were not in line with the project
management guide. This project has provided the relevant recommendations in context of
improving the project management plan of the amalgamation project such as using the Life
Cycle Costing (LCC), qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including the close out phase
in the project management life cycle along with including the interactivity dependencies in
the scheduling of the project.

Introduction
The Project Management Plan (PMP) is considered as an approved and formal document
used for the purpose of proper management of execution of project (Sabyasachi, 2017). It
documents the actions essential to define, prepare, integrate as well as coordinate various
planning activities. It defines the manner of execution, monitoring, control and closure of
project as well as elaborated progressively through updates during the course of project
(Business Insight Ltd, 2018). In this report, taking into consideration, relevant and reliable
project management, the document of project will be critically analyzed as the format of a
professional report. It will then be handed to the client or manager in order to exemplify how
the project should be managed through to completion as PMP is considered a significant
document for achieving positive project outcomes as well as is generally used to achieve
commitment from sponsors or client and enable taking such decisions to be taken with
confidence (ProjectManagement.com, 2018).In this report, the proposal prepared by local
government will be analyzed from the point of view of a professional project management
plan. The report will provide critical analysis of all the major sections of the PMP along with
theoretical framework regarding what should be included in every particular section of the
project schedule. The report will majorly discuss the project under the Guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and will inform if all the recognized areas
covered by various Project Management Bodies of Knowledge have been included in the
project or not, on the basis of which, recommendations regarding what changes should be
made to the PMP will be provided.