Project Management: Relocation a family from Queensland to Perth

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project: Relocation a family from Queensland to Perth
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Overview................................................................................................................................2
2. Assumptions and criteria that are used for preparing the milestone list................................2
3. Project milestone plan............................................................................................................3
4. Project list of tasks.................................................................................................................3
5. Gantt chart..............................................................................................................................3
6. Adjustments that are made in the schedule............................................................................3
7. Personal reflection..................................................................................................................8
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................10
Appendices...............................................................................................................................12
Appendix 1: Milestone plan.................................................................................................12
Appendix 2: List of tasks and the person who is responsible..............................................13
Appendix 3: Gantt chart for indicating the flow of tasks.....................................................14

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1. Overview
The paper mainly showcases on the family who wants to move from Queensland to
Perth as Jeff who is family head has got appointment as a Marketing Director in one of the
organizations of Perth. Jeff wants to move to Perth along with this wife “Kelly” and two
children Will and Lexie. It is found that the present house n Queensland needs to be vacated
by 20th January whereas the new house of Perth where Jeff will move along with his family
will be commenced on 27th January. As the children’s of Jeff have to attain school on 31st of
January and as they does not have any relatives in Perth therefore they want to move to the
new house as soon as possible. Moreover, the assumed budget for the project will be $15,000
and it is necessary for the project managers to complete the relocation within the specified
amount successfully.
2. Assumptions and criteria that are used for preparing the milestone list
It is identified that there are number of assumptions as well as criteria that are
required to be consider in order to prepare the milestone plan as well as the task list of the
project are generally illustrated below:
Resources: The required resources for the purpose of relocation will be easily
available as per the assumption. The human resources as well as other facilities which are
necessary for relocating the entire family of Jeff to the new city. The availability of resources
are considered to be beneficial as due to the presence of the resources, the work of the project
and get completed within the expected time.
Cost: As per the assumption of the project manager, the relocation project must be
successfully get completed within the budget $15,000. Completion of the project within the
assumed budget is considered to be necessary in order to avoid the various types of financial
challenges as well as issues that can occur due to the problem budge overflow.

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Infrastructure: The project manager assumes that the children off Jeff will be able to
attend their school on 31st of January which one of the important priority as the new
apartment in Perth will be commenced by 27th of January and thus it is assumed that the
family can be easily relocate to their new apartment.
Task distribution: It is assumed that the activities that will be required to be
executed or successfully completing the relocation project must be distributed to the project
stakeholders as per their experience and work capability. Equal work distribution will be
beneficial as it will not put pressure on any of the project stakeholder who are engaged with
the project.
3. Project milestone plan
The project milestone plan that is mainly developed for the project is reflected in
Appendix 1.
4. Project list of tasks
The project list of tasks with the responsible person is reflected in Appendix 2.
5. Gantt chart
Refer to Appendix 3 in order to get the information regarding flow of tasks that are
used for relocation of the family.
6. Adjustments that are made in the schedule
It is found that as the last date of vacating the present house of Jeff is 20th January
however the date for the commencement of the new house is on 27th January therefore it is
very much necessary to crash the schedule of the project so that the commencement of the
new house will be done by 20th January so that the relocation of the family can be done
without any problem. Therefore, the changes that are required to be done are reflected below: