Project Management Essentials for Smart City Development

Project Management

INTRODUCTION
Project management defines the purpose of specific knowledge, skills, tools and techniques
to deliver people better. Each project differs a unique base concept from routine operations. As
the ongoing activities of an organization because a project reaches on inference once the goal is
accomplished. It also helps to improvise business is process related to specific use of skills,
knowledge, tools and techniques to deliver value of people (Aanbari, and Kwak, 2018). The
main objectives of project for creation where value through unique product and services
deliverables in effective manner. This report focuses on Smart City development by bringing
advanced technology, potential workforce, and other attributes that play an important role in
bringing new developed cities. It includes the stages linked with risk assessment, budget
preparation, and ensuring the project communication to the associated team. Through team
member have their own process to interpret about objectives and goals that are part of the project
to understand main purpose of project (Bjorvatn, and Wald, 2018). The efficiency and
effectiveness of the project depends on individuals and teams involved in the project that ensure
the better performance level get maximized based on project requirement. The efficiency of the
project depends on the individuals and team involved in the project to ensure that the
performance level is maximised as per project requirement.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Skills which are required in effective project manager and reflecting on skills required for Smart
City project
The technologies and disciplines are absolutely interlinked with each other and plays a
significant role in converting a city into a smart city. This interconnection enables to understand
that how much market-share interact with it. Within UK, various cities are competing with each
other to become the country's smartest city. Against larger cities such as London and
Manchester, Hull might appear as a loser, but it has been constructing substantial in-roads from
the last 12 months. For reducing the crowding of traffic, the company has offered smart solutions
and for that it was awarded £55,000 in May last year. Within the year, later it started a more
progressive project Smart Operating system (SOS) for the city to make it exclusive one. The
Smart Operating System for making the city as a smart city is delivered by Hull City Councill,

technology company Connexin and Cisco. Connexin has been working with cities such as
Newcastle Upon Tyne to deliver smart city technologies, impacting on everything from lighting,
mobility, security and waste. “Developing Hull as a Smart City will give us the opportunity to
work with public and private sector partners to deliver real benefits to communities, businesses
and visitors to Hull,” says Councillor Daren Hale, Deputy Leader of Hull City Council.
Management means planning, organizing. Monitoring and controlling of activities efficiently and
effectively to achieve the goals of organization. These functions are performed by project
managers in any particular project. Project managers ensures the development of effective team
so that the requirement of budge and various resources are satisfied. In this particular report,
project manager prepares report on hulk city smart project. Smart city is closely related to the
development of cities and adds different features and facilities. It includes metro facilities, proper
sanitation facilities, proper drinking water facilities, roads and flyovers, effective traffic
management, proper market classification, basic amenities, proper local transportation and
effective tourism management. Smart city project must focus on health facilities of the city. It is
the most important aspect of smart city because none the city regarded as smart city until their
health structure of city becomes effective (Filippetto, Lima and Barbosa, 2021). It includes
construction of new multi-specialty hospitals, dispensaries in most remote areas, regular health
check, uses of new technology and machinery in hospitals and proper ambulance facilities. All
these features need effective project management and managerial roles. The brief discussion
related roles of project manager in smart city project is given below.
 Initiation phase: - This is a first stage of project management. All the ideas for the
project are carries out in this stage. Project manager identifies all persons relevant to the
project. Smart city project is very big project and all the key roles and ideas are
considered in this stage. This phase requires talented persons having innovated minds to
carry out different and attractive ideas.
 Planning phase: - All planning related to various aspects of smart city project are done
in this phase and this stage requires to be most developed and effective. In this stage, the
data related to different factors of project are analyzed and utilized in planning in this
stage. Time period is one factor which needs more focus and the planning related to this
factor should be effective because project is regarded as effective project if they complete
before their estimated deadline. Another important factor which requires to be focused is