Project on Light Rail Services in Sydney

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Project on Light Rail Services in Sydney
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Table of Contents
1. Analysis over the Project Schedule using Critical Path...............................................................2
2. Analysis of Project Schedule and Review Technique (PERT) analysis......................................5
3. Development of the Project Budget and Cost Management Plan................................................1
4. Assessment of Health of a Project using Earned Value Analysis (EVA)....................................2
5. Assessment of Contemporary Project Management Practices related to Project........................2
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................5

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1. Analysis over the Project Schedule using Critical Path
The light rail system project that has been designed for the town of Sydney has been
mainly planned for providing the commuters with a frequent, comfortable and reliable journey
who would travel through the south eastern suburbs. With the development of the project, there
would be a reduction in the amount of congestion that is faced on the roads. It would also reduce
the dependency on the amount of traffic that is mainly dependent on the road based commuting
service. The creation of critical path is important for a project as it helps in the identification of
all the tasks that would be highly necessary for the completion of the project. The identification
of critical path for a project would also help in determining as what tasks would be able to
complete the completion of the project. Each of the project management tasks that would be
defined under critical oath would be needed to be completed first based on progressing over the
next part of the project. The critical path would comprise of a vast series of tasks that would be
take much longer time to complete. It would thus set the maximum length of time that would be
required for the completion of the project.
Based on the assessment over the Project Schedule using the method of critical path, it
can be analysed that:
1. Technical Feasibility analysis would be considered within the study of the Light Rail
Project. It can be considered as the complete study within the project that would be based in
terms of various processes, output, input, procedures and programs. The use of technical
feasibility could be defined as an effective tool based on trouble shooting and long term
planning. The use of technical feasibility within the Light Rail Project would be helpful for
supporting the financial information within an organisation.

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2. The use of environmental feasibility within the Light Rail Project would make use of
the information that would be gathered from the surroundings of Sydney and the places where
the project would be designed. The staff within the construction organisation and the
Environmental Conservation staff would be responsible for working together in deciding over
the best factors that would be applicable for the project. The primary operations that would be
needed to be followed during the designing of schedule would be based on managing remedial
costs and site operations.
3. The use of operational feasibility primarily refers to the different kind of measures that
would be taken for solving of problems based on the help of a new form of proposed system.
Operational feasibility helps in fulfilling of requirements that would be identified based on
developing of the project. The use of operational feasibility within the Light Rail Project would
help for managing the users and management team of the project.
4. The project charter can be defined as a form of written document that would help in
capturing and then summarizing each of the elements within a project. The use of the project
charter would also help in explaining the project case, mentioning the goals of the project and
also defining the project scope. The project charter defined for the Light Rail Project is based on
a dynamic and living document. It thus helps in mentioning about the benefits of the project,
listing the impacts over the project and also determine certain factors for measuring the success
criteria of the project.
5. The project scope would be helpful in defining the entire project course and also
determining the life cycle of the project. It is a common scenario for stakeholders to change the
course of the project and also push new kind of requirements within the project. In order to avoid
such kind of circumstances, the project manager and the management team should finalize the