Unit 6 Project Planning: The Naked Pantry New Forest

Unit 6 Project Planning

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Aim and objectives..................................................................................................................3
2. Project management plan.........................................................................................................3
3. Work breakdown and Gantt chart............................................................................................4
4. Importance of primary data collection.....................................................................................6
5. Importance of secondary data and literature on talent management........................................7
Theme 1: Advantages of talent management for businesses.......................................................8
Theme 2: Strategies for managing talent within business...........................................................8
Theme 3: What is appropriate leadership style for managing talent within business..................9
6. Results and data analysis.........................................................................................................9
7. Recommendations for business development........................................................................13
8. Reflection on project management........................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
A process of leading team members for accomplishing specific project goals is known as
project management (Demirkesen and Ozorhon, 2017). This study is based on small The Naked
Pantry New Forest as it is a plastic free shop where customers need to bring their own containers
to refill with their kitchen pantry items and other household cleaning products. It opens a new
one more store and for this, this study will discuss factors that need to be considered in project
management plan.
MAIN BODY
1. Aim and objectives
Aim of conducting this project is “To increase market share by opening one more corner
convenience shop.” Study on The Naked Pantry new Forest.
Objectives
 To increase market, share by 30% by opening convenience store.
 To give easier access to customers for buying kitchen pantry items and household
cleaning products.
2. Project management plan
There are number of factors that need to be considered while project management planning such
as:
Scope: As the main aim of this project is to increase market share by opening one more
general corner shop. So, in this context, it can be said that it has wider scope and can be
beneficial for customers and managers. Manager can increase sales and customers can get
essential items at one place. For this, quality will be measured, team working will be done.
Time: It is important for project manager to complete given project in a timely manner in
order to accomplish goals and making stakeholders beneficial. Estimated time of completing this
project of opening one more corner shop is: 5 months (Silvius and et.al., 2017). This project will
be completed within 5 months.
Risks: Business environment is made up of number of factors and changes may happen
in this environment any time. Covid-19, climate change are some common examples and these
changes may create barriers in completion of project. For avoiding risks, risk management table
will be produced and back-up plan for each stage will be kept.

Cost: Cost is other main elements that need to be considered in order to complete project
as per available financial resources. For completion of this project, project manager is being
allotted £300. So, this project of opening a new store will be conducted in £290.
Resources: For completing project management in a successful manner, project manager
requires number of resources including. For completing this project, stationery, human resources,
technologies, interior designer, communicational tools will be used.
Communication: As it is a big project that has wide scope. There are number of
stakeholders who are interested or linked with this project. For communicating with internal
stakeholders, meetings will be conducted and for communicating with external stakeholders
telephonic and leaflet communication will be done.
Quality: Quality can be known as the degree of excellence. In regard to project
management, it can be said that quality is the main key of successful project ( Ceptureanu and
et.al., 2017). For managing as well as measuring quality of this project, continuous feedback will
be given to workers, KPIs will be used and controlling task will be performed.
3. Work breakdown and Gantt chart
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Initiation 43 days Tue 11/16/21 Thu 1/13/22
Market research 10 days Tue 11/16/21 Mon 11/29/21
Identification of best
place 18 days Tue 11/30/21 Thu 12/23/21
Obtain licensing 15 days Fri 12/24/21 Thu 1/13/22
Planning 39 days Fri 1/14/22 Wed 3/9/22
Recruitment planning 7 days Fri 1/14/22 Mon 1/24/22
Identifying finance
options 4 days Tue 1/25/22 Fri 1/28/22
Risks identification 5 days Mon 1/31/22 Fri 2/4/22
Infrastructure 15 days Mon 2/7/22 Fri 2/25/22
Inventory planning 7 days Mon 2/28/22 Tue 3/8/22
Suppliers selection 1 day Wed 3/9/22 Wed 3/9/22
Executing 49 days Thu 3/10/22 Tue 5/17/22
Building design 25 days Thu 3/10/22 Wed 4/13/22
Installation of software
for data collection 10 days Thu 4/14/22 Wed 4/27/22
Promotion 7 days Thu 4/28/22 Fri 5/6/22
Getting certificate of 7 days Mon 5/9/22 Tue 5/17/22