Project Planning and Management: Lessons Learned from Successful and Failed Football Stadium Projects

Contents
Executive Summary...............................................................................................................................2
Introduction..............................................................................................................................................3
Project Scope..........................................................................................................................................3
WBS...........................................................................................................................................................4
Methodology............................................................................................................................................5
Budget.......................................................................................................................................................7
Project Life Cycle....................................................................................................................................9
Constraints...............................................................................................................................................9
Stakeholder Analysis...........................................................................................................................10
Causes of Project Failure...................................................................................................................10
Limitations..............................................................................................................................................11
Recommendations...............................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................11
References.............................................................................................................................................13

Executive Summary
This report is based on project management in which comparison of two projects of
same nature is done under the areas of project management. Projects of discussion of
this report are from construction industry and these are two football stadium; one is
Wembley stadium and other is Emirates Stadium. Reason of comparing these two
projects is one project was successful and other was not successful. Emirates project
was successful as it project management areas were properly used so it was completed
in time within estimated budget without facing any big constraint but project of Wembley
stadium faced many issues which results in its failure and it was delayed due to change
in scope, conflicts between subcontractor of steel and main contractor. There was also
lack of communication and problem in information flow as well. Stakeholders were not
informed properly and on time so these all issues along with accident of health and
safety results in project delay.
Recommendations are made after the analysis of projects in different perspectives and
it is concluded that it is important to have proper planning of any project and there
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should be sufficient time and resources as well needed to achieve the objectives of
project. Limitations of the study are also discussed.
Introduction
Project management can be defined as management of different set of activities while
managing a projects to achieve desired objectives of that project. It involves planning,
coordination and control from start to end of the project (Gido.et al, 2014). It is important
for any project to have clear structure, goals, deliverables, transparency, risk
assessment and its management. This report based on project management areas by
doing comparison of two projects of same nature. Projects discussed in this report are
to football stadiums and industry is construction so construction of Wembley and
Emirates stadium will be critically analysed under the areas of project management.
Wembley project was failed and unable to meet the project deliverables in certain time
due to mismanagement of risks (Basu, 2014). The Emirates stadium is located in
London and it is the home of Arsenal FC.
There are certain reasons of failure of Wembley stadium was identified which are
critically analysed in this report and conclusion is made on the basis of project
management areas and recommendations are made by keeping in view the factors
involved in success or failure of projects.
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Project Scope
Project scope is crucial and important step in the successful execution of project (IPM,
2022). It is comprised of plan scope management, collection of requirement, defining
the scope, creating WBS (Work breakdown structure) validity of scope and control (IPM,
2022).
Project scope of Emirates stadium was according to its deliverables and planning while
scope of Wembley stadium was changed again and again during the project as its
design was changed from the design which was initially selected and one of the key
reason of delay in project was change in scope of the project (Swmoore, 2011). It is
important to have clear project scope from the start to complete the project objectives
and milestone on time.
Image source: (IMP, 2022)
WBS
WBS (Work breakdown structure) can be defined as breaking down project into smaller
components. Benefit of breaking down project into smaller sections helps to achieve the
objectives of project and it becomes easy to manage projects at each level. It is
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