Project Scheduling and Control for Personal Trainer Business

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PROJECT SCHEDULING AND
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Contents
Introduction.........................................................................................................................................1
Approaches to project scheduling and control..................................................................................2
Work Break Down Structure for ‘Personal Trainer’ business....................................................2
Project network diagram................................................................................................................5
Gantt chart.......................................................................................................................................6
Project budgeting.............................................................................................................................6
Critical path.....................................................................................................................................7
Critical chain....................................................................................................................................8
Earned value Analysis.....................................................................................................................8
Agile methodology...........................................................................................................................9
Lean Project Management..............................................................................................................9
Project crashing.............................................................................................................................10
List of Project Deliverables...........................................................................................................10
Recommendations to achieve project success..................................................................................11
Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................11
References..........................................................................................................................................12
Introduction
The demand for personal trainers has been increasing at a rapid rate with the increase in
health consciousness in Australia. Nowadays, Australian of all shapes, sizes, and ages hire
personal coach in order to exercise correctly to keep themselves trim, healthy and fit. The
main motive of Personal Trainer business is to spread the word about the physical fitness
expertise at health spas, biking, swimming, and running clubs and other athletic outlets. The
personal trainer will help Australians to achieve their selected fitness goals by designing an
individualized exercise program. The main objective of this report is to design a project
schedule for the new selected business named as Personal Trainer.
Approaches to project scheduling and control

The project team members have been utilized different project scheduling and control
approaches for identifying and sequencing project activities including project duration and
cost estimation as shown below:
Work Break Down Structure for ‘Personal Trainer’ business
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) refers to the division of complex projects into
manageable and simpler activities/tasks (Kukhnavets, 2017). It provides a strong base for all
project management work including work project scheduling, resource allocation, planning,
effort, and cost estimation.
Figure-1 Work Breakdown Structure of the Personal training project
Description of work break down the structure
The WBS dictionary is used for describing each element or activity of work break down
structure:
Persona
l
Trainer
Equipm
ent
First aid
kit
Defibrill
ators
Training
equipm
ent
Adverti
sing
materia
l
Pamphl
ets
Talk to
custom
ers
Facebo
ok Ads
Training
Progra
ms
Area to
train
Parks
Space
at the
park
SIS4021
5
Certific
ate IV
Workin
g with
Childre
n Check
First
Aid
Certific
ate

WBS
level
WBS ID WBS Name WBS description PWS/SOW
mapping
1 1 Certificate in
fitness
In order to work as a personal trainer in Australia, it is
necessary to get a SIS40215 certificate IV in fitness.
The personal trainers need to spend 1 year on complete
this course ("Become A Personal Trainer - Cert IV in
Fitness", 2019).
2 2 Equipment In this phase, the project team will buy equipment’s that
will be required to start a new business.
3 2.1 First aid kit The first aid kit should include Analgesic, antibiotic
ointment, decongestant, instant cold packs, latex gloves,
thermometer, antiseptic, etc. that will help the personal
trainer to manage an emergency or critical situations.
3 2.2 Defibrillators A defibrillator should be purchased as it will help
people to beat the heartbreak from cardiac arrest.
3 2.3 Training
equipment’s
Personal trainers will require quality music systems,
stop watches, form rollers, suspension trainer, weighted
belts, clothes, towels, water dispensers and other
equipment’s.
2 3 Advertising
material
In this phase, different types of advertising strategies
and the material will be used by business
partners/owners to raise awareness among citizens in
Australia about the unique fitness services that they will
offer to them.
3 3.1 Pamphlets In this phase, brochures and pamphlet will be designed 1