Project Scope Statement for a Relocation Project

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Project scope statement
Table of Contents
Project title............................................................................................................................... 2
Project leader........................................................................................................................... 2
Project explanation...................................................................................................................2
Project goals.............................................................................................................................2
Business objectives.................................................................................................................. 2
Scope........................................................................................................................................3
In-Scope............................................................................................................................................3
Out-scope..........................................................................................................................................3
Project deliverables.................................................................................................................. 3
Internal deliverables..........................................................................................................................3
External deliverables.........................................................................................................................3
Constraints and exclusions.......................................................................................................3
Project team............................................................................................................................. 3
Milestones................................................................................................................................ 3
Project Priorities.......................................................................................................................5
WBS......................................................................................................................................... 5
Cost estimation.........................................................................................................................6
References................................................................................................................................8
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Project scope statement
Project title
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Project leader
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Project explanation
Billblock Legal is a company who are into legal services-based business. The company has 4
partners and have been operating since over 12 years. Recently, they have planned to merge
with another company known as Who Accounting and they are into the business for
providing forensic accounting related services. Both companies have 20 and 17 staffs each.
The reason for merger is that they want to get a stronghold in the competitive accounting and
legal landscape. Owing to this merger, they have both decided to move to a new office
premises and also use this opportunity to upgrade to a new business system. This transition of
merger as well as moving to a new business location and getting a new business system is a
complicated process. Furthermore, given the nature of this process, it has been decided that
this project would be outsourced to another company who is responsible to manage this
change. As a result, the entire project shall be managed using project management principles.
For the same, PMBOK or Project Management Body of Knowledge shall be used. The
guidelines and techniques outlined in PMBoK is suitable for all kinds of projects and is
among the most popular project management framework in the world (Eldridge Fanning,
2014).
Project goals
Two companies being merged means that it will give rise to a third company which is meant
to restrict their shortcomings and enhance their strengths. As a result, the ultimate goal of the
merger is to get a stronghold in the market and advance further positively. The main goal
here is to help with the merger so that the transition is smooth and the resulting creation can
synergize their working together.
 Management of the re-location process in the given time.
 Coordination with different activities to be done in the given project.
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Project scope statement
 Collaborating with contractors to ensure timely completion of project as well as
quality work can be done.
 Identifying as well as mitigating risks that typically occur in the lifecycle of the
project (Jainendrakumar, 2016).
Business objectives
 Creation of a sustainable environment for employees in the new office
 Gain profit from sales and use the money for improving University facilities
 Improving ambience of the college making it more creative and motivational for work
 Establishing IT infrastructure to support growing needs of students
 Creating reasonable environment for operation which will also support requirements
in the future.
 Handling the requirements of the consumers in order to provide them with latest
technological advances.
 Monitoring trends in the market and keeping a check on the competition.
 Enhancing the overall communication among the merged entities.
 Enhancing the company’s brand image as well as the QoS (Kisongoch & Nsubug,
2013).
 Combining the different business units into one single entity.
 Creating a more efficient, quicker and an improvised version of their offerings to
influence customer base and increase market hold.
Benefits:
 Better quality of workplace as well as facilities.
 Maximization of profits and optimum utilization of resources.
 Increased productivity in terms of collaboration, workplace environment and a
positive change.
 Enhanced delivery of services.
 Enhanced reporting and collaboration owing to a new unified business system.
Scope
In-Scope
Following are key in-scope items of the proposed project:
 Site inspections
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