Project Management Assignment - UK caring services

Project Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................1
Carry out a project using an agreed plan having clearly identified all relevant issues and risks.
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TASK 4............................................................................................................................................4
Produce and present a project report with an analysis of outcomes and recommendations.......4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERANCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Project management can be define as a process of managing all activities of the project. It
includes various skills, tools and techniques as well as knowledge which help successful
implement the project (Burke, 2013). It includes a proper process that consist of initiating,
planning, executing, motioning or controlling and closing. For this report chosen company is UK
caring services. This is one of the reputed company which is dealing in health care industry. It is
providing professional care services to its clients. In this report a activities related to managing
delivery of project of promoting Sanitary condition in care services is identified. It consist of
reporting process as well as monitoring and managing progress of project. Apart from this
outcomes of project plan has been identified.
TASK 3
Carry out a project using an agreed plan having clearly identified all relevant issues and risks.
It is very important that plan is clearly identified as well as its all relevant issues and risk
is evaluated timely. This will help in conducting activities of project in correct manner as well as
achievement of goals and objectives.
Managing delivery of the project: When project is effectively developed it is essential
to manage its delivery. In order to achieve maximum outcomes from the project, it is essential to
manage delivery. Project management with a successful outcome could only be achieved when
project flow in a proper sutured process. For managing delivery of the project includes reporting
process and monitoring issues as well as risks. Project delivery could be managed by monitoring
the progress of project and it is essential to manage financial as well as non financial risks.
Importance of an efficient and effective reporting process.
It is essential to have a proper reporting process in project management in order to
providing proper information and communication to every one. Reporting process consist of
hierarchy through which any communication regarding project flows (Hwang and Ng, 2013).
Reports includes important information, details as well as progress which provide summary of
the project. It is important to develop an efficient and effective reporting process for internal and
external communications. UK caring services needs to provide information to internal and
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external stakeholder so that they are well aware about the activities of project regarding
promotion of Sanitary condition in care service. Significance of efficient and effective reporting
progress in mention below. Communication: Effective and efficient reporting process helps in conducting proper
flow of communication (Meredith, Mantel and Shafer, 2017). It is important that each
and every person who participating in this project should be aware about the project
progress. Reporting process in as hierarchy in which communication flow from top to
bottom management for communicating order and commands. In reporting process
feedback as well as progress of project is passed form bottom to top management. Documentation: Reporting process is very essential for a proper documenting the
project. In effective and efficient reports complete details about the project is mentioned.
This can be considered as a documents that can be used for future purpose. These
documents are important in taking various essential decisions for project management. Flow of information: Effective and efficient reporting process is very important for
correct flow of information. In order to conduct a successful project, it is essential to
provide information and accurate data to all stakeholders who are related to this project.
Reporting process helps in keeping all participants updated about the project.
Monitoring and managing progress including the early identification of issues.
When project is implementing and executing it is very to monitor as well as manage the
progress of project implementation. There are various risk and issues which can have negative
impact on project. These risk and issues can be consider as a major reason for unsuccessful
project. In order to achieve maximum outputs and accomplish desired goals, respective company
need to identify all issues and risk (Mir and Pinnington, 2014). There are various method and
techniques that will help in monitoring and measuring projects. Different risk and issues in
successful implementation of promoting Sanitary condition in care services project is mention
below. Government risk: This risk refers to all those issues that occur due to government and
legal party. There are various rules and regulation made by government which will have
direct impact on successful implementation of plan. It is important to evaluate and
analyse government rules in order to minimize its negative impact.
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 Strategic risk: Strategic risk refers to all those risk that occur due to poor strategies. It is
essential to create effective strategies after analysing and evaluating each and every
aspect regarding promotion of Sanitary condition in care services. When wrong strategies
are developed this will lead to inaccurate implementation of project. Cost risk: This type of risk are majorly related to cost and funds (Ofori, 2013). This type
of risk occur when company is not able to estimate right and accurate amount of money
that will be required to completing all task and activities of the project. Performance risk: Performance risk occur when employees are not able to successful
implement all task and activities in accurate manner. This risk is consider is majorly due
to the incapabilities of employees and failure to perform task in correct way.
Identifying and managing financial and non financial risk.
There are different types of risk that occur during conducting activities of the project. It is
very important to identify and manage all of these risk. These risks are considered as a chances
which can have unexpected as well as negative outcome on the project. Financial risks is consist
of all those risks that includes cost or money. Non financial risk includes all those risk that does
not include any financial cost or money. All these factors of risk should be timely identified as
well as properly managed in order to achieve desired outcomes. Financial risk includes market
risk, credit risk, liquidity risk as well as operational risk. The major reason for financial risk is
wrong and inaccurate estimation of cost and it could be because of lack of funds. Non financial
risk occur due to ineffective performance of employees as well as other factor which can have
direct impact on implementation of project. Business risk, environment as well as strategic risk
are the major non financial risk. It is essential to correctly manage all of these risk in correct
manner in order to successful promotion of Sanitary condition in care services and achieving
desired goals.
Processes for the regular updating of the project plan and budget.
Project plan can be describe as a process of formal document that is designed and
developed in order to provide guidelines to conduct a successful project. It is very important to
develop as proper plan in order to effectively conduct activities of a project (Pemsel and
Wiewiora, 2013). This is very helpful in completing all activities on time and achieving set
targets. A project plan consist of various steps that are helpful in identifying important resources
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and scheduling time that is required to conduct business activity. There are majorly five steps of
a project plan such as initiation, planning, launching, control and closure. All of these phases of
project plan and budget is mention below.
Initiation: This is considered as a first phase of project management and in this project
proposal will be developed in this step motive of project as well as other important details related
to project has been identified in order to conduct a successful project.
Planning: In this step a proper plan is developed in order to achieve goals and objectives.
In planning all aspects that are related to respective project need to be implemented and effective
strategies are developed.
Launching: At this phase project plan will be actually launched and implemented
(Schwalbe, 2015). In this stage allocation of task as resources of different employees will be
done and each team member will be well aware about there responsibilities.
Performance and control: In this stage of project each and every employees needs to
contribute their maximum efforts in order to successful completion of project. All activities will
be controlled and performed in better manner.
Closure: This is the last stage of project management and in this all activities of
respective project is successful completed. At this stage project is closed and desired outcomes
has been achieved.
TASK 4
Produce and present a project report with an analysis of outcomes and recommendations.
Project report can be describe as a document that contain all information regarding
project as well as its outcomes. This provide as details of the project and provide overall picture
of the proposed business project. It is important to develop effective and efficient project report
in order to ascertain the prospect of the preposed activity and plan.
Presenting the report and gaining feedback from the customers and other stakeholder
In order to identify the outcomes of the project on promotion of Sanitary condition in
care services, feedbacks from the customer and other stakeholder are taken. This feedbacks helps
in analysing and evaluating the positive outcomes on this project in care service (Too and
Weaver, 2014). It has been identified that because of this project there is huge improvement in
Sanitary condition. There is proper facilities are provided to customers and other people in order
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to enhance hygiene of individual. This project leads to proper supply of water and there is
cleanliness in care services. Because of this there is improvement in healthy of people and they
are able to live a healthy life.
Recommendations:
There are various recommendations on the bases of feedback given by customers and
stakeholder. It is very important for respective company to identify different types of risks that
could occur during implementation of plan (Walker, 2015). This will be helpful in improve the
project management plan. Company needs to developed effective strategies in order to complete
project activities within right time frame. It is essential to understanding the requirement of
stakeholder and managing all resources in best possible manner in order to achieve desired goals
and outcomes.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that managing all activities of project is very
important. Project management process consist of different factors that should be followed and
used in correct manner in order to achieve positive outcomes. There are various risks such as
financial as well as non financial that should be identified on time so that it could be managed.
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REFERANCES
Books and Journals
Burke, R., 2013. Project management: planning and control techniques. New Jersey, USA. 26.
Hwang, B.G. and Ng, W.J., 2013. Project management knowledge and skills for green
construction: Overcoming challenges. International Journal of Project
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Meredith, J.R., Mantel Jr, S.J. and Shafer, S.M., 2017. Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Mir, F.A. and Pinnington, A.H., 2014. Exploring the value of project management: linking
project management performance and project success. International journal of project
management. 32(2). pp.202-217.
Ofori, D.F., 2013. Project management practices and critical success factors–a developing
country perspective.
Pemsel, S. and Wiewiora, A., 2013. Project management office a knowledge broker in project-
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Schwalbe, K., 2015. Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.
Too, E.G. and Weaver, P., 2014. The management of project management: A conceptual
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Walker, A., 2015. Project management in construction. John Wiley & Sons.
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