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Project Management on QA Higher Education

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK ..............................................................................................................................................11. Sample Project Initiation Document.......................................................................................12. Work Breakdown Structure.....................................................................................................33. Risk Register...........................................................................................................................74. Waterfall and PRINCE 2 Theory ...........................................................................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONProject management refers to the process of planning, organising, execution of a projectin order to complete it in a specific period of time (Alsudiri, Al-Karaghouli and Eldabi, 2013).Along with this, it adopts various methodologies such as waterfall, agile and many more to makeproject effective as well as better. Project management can be conducted in various ways such asevent, seminars and other activities. This report is based on event management of QA HigherEducation of London who is conducting Freshers party in the month of September. In this report,it is described their objective, time scale, approach they have adopted and other activities whichhelped them in making their event attractive as well as memorable.TASK 1. Sample Project Initiation DocumentTitle: An attractive and Memorable Freshers PartyBudget: Respective university has provided a budget of approx £50000 in which allactivities needed to be perform. They can be advertisement, place for event, ordering of food andmany more. Students of London, Manchester and Birmingham have divided the given budget sothat they can manage their task in a proper way. The budget was divided as 15% inadvertisement, 20% in catering, 25% selection of destination, 20% in decoration and electricityand remaining in payment of rent of place selected for event.Timescale: Students need a period of 1.5 months to organise the event as for booking oflocation, foods, decoration and other activities takes time. In order to make event attractive andmemorable, a period of 1.5 month is sufficient. For example: students need 2 day for selecting aswell as booking location, 1 day for booking catering, 3 days for informing all students studyingat different branches and so on. So in order to arrange all these activities respective period isenough. Objective: The main objective of university to organise freshers party is to enhanceposition at marketplace as well as to attract students in order to take admission (Brewer andDittman, 2013). Along with this, with the help of this event student will learn aboutmanagement, will enhance their communication skills while interacting with different people. Inaddition to this, they will also able to build confidence in them and many more.1
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Approach: The approach which is adopted by student of London, Manchester andBirmingham is source of advertisement in newspapers, magazines and many more (Eskerod andVaagaasar, 2014). Along with this, personal invitation to potential students or those with whomthey have strong relation. In addition to this, in respective university, they can post notice forevery students in case if they miss. Along with this, they also upload about event on social mediasuch as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and many more. In addition to this, they can send email totheir students studying in their universities at different locations.Key Staff: For organising event, students need those people who have already organiseany event and have any contact through which they can make their booking easily. Along withthis, students of respective university require people who are innovative and can provide ideasregarding decoration, management and others. Therefore, a team of talented and skilled studentswill result in attractive event.Stakeholders analysis: It refers to the analysis in which an individual is able todetermine need and demands of stakeholders. Along with this, these stakeholders are people whoinvest in events to make it effective (Eskerod, Huemann and Ringhofer, 2015). Respectiveuniversity have some stakeholders who invested in their freshers party event so that students ofuniversity does not face any kind of financial problem. Stakeholder of QA Higher EducationUniversity is described below:Sponsors (High Power, High Interest): This stage states that it is important to makesponsors happy and satisfied with event. It is because they are those individuals whosupport and invest in event. In respect of QA Higher Education University, they havestrong relation with their sponsors who usually invest in their events to make itsuccessful. Along with this, these sponsors provide job opportunities to capable andskilled students of respective university. This not only provide opportunities to studentsbut also enhance goodwill of university.Government (High Power, Low Interest): In this category, it is responsibility ofuniversity to only satisfy government if they conduct any kind of get together. As lowinterest of administration helps them avoiding their interference in event. Along with this,as government does not show any interest so respective university can turn them off ifany find any kind of problem with them.2
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