Report On Project Progress And Management

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Report on project progress
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Table of Contents
Milestone and communication requirements.............................................................................2
Milestone for the project progress..............................................................................................3
Progress activities.......................................................................................................................4
Forecast the impact of changes to project schedule baseline.....................................................4
Identify the project schedule variance........................................................................................4
Response to project changes......................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Milestone and communication requirements
Communication Plan
What Who Purpose When/frequency Type/method
Project team
meetings
All the project
stakeholders
Gathering of
project related
information
Weekly basis Presentation
Kick off
meetings
All project team
members
Roles and
responsibilities
of project
stakeholders
Before starting of
project plan
Presentation
Status report All the project
stakeholders
Update of the
stakeholders on
project progress
Weekly basis Distribution of
email
Sponsor
meetings
Sponsor and
project manager
Approval for the
project changes
Regular project
schedule
Email
Communication plan progress
The communication plan is helpful to launch as well as offer new services which is
better for the company. The communication plan is a medium to achieve the project goals as
well as interact with the project stakeholders to communicate the project issues (Meredith,
JMantel Jr and Shafer 2017). It helps to discuss all issues related to project and provide
suggestions to mitigate it.

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Milestone of the project
Description of the project milestone Sub-phases
Initial team meetings Review of the project reports
Assigning of the members to the project
activities
Marketing activities Performing marketing research
Social media activities
Marketing campaigns
Closure of the project plan Creating action plan to maintain project
delays
Monitoring the project outcomes
Milestone for the project progress
The company is able to assign the project team members to the project activities so
that there is proper achieving of the project milestones to achieve the project goals. The
project milestone is required for meeting with the project objectives. The milestones are
project actions which are required to achieve to make progress towards project goals
(Kerzner 2017). The marketing manager is putting promotional materials together to meet
with aim of the project. The project milestones are achieved and the project goals are also
progressing. There is assessing of opportunities to be emerged and made possible adjustments
to the project plan. By completion of one by one project phases, the project milestones are
being achieved (Lock 2017). This task has always zero duration which can shows as
significant achievement of the project plan.

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Progress activities
In order to track the project progress, the project team members are required to create
an outline of the project. Each of the members in the team should provide input to set the
project goals. When considering how to measure progress of each project activities, it should
underestimate importance of the project planning. At the starting of the project work,
communication is required to run the project plan smoothly. When the workers are facing
challenges to meet with goals, then communication helps to implement project structures
(Harrison and Lock 2017). The project management plan as well as schedule is reviewed as
well as send to the senior manager for reviewing the progress of project activities.
Forecast the impact of changes to project schedule baseline
Before starting of the project execution as well as control tasks, the project schedule
baseline is defined as well as documented. After starting of project execution, the project
baseline is under the change control to evaluate possible changes as well as its impact on
project work. The forecasting of the project schedule is estimated from progress against
schedule baseline as well as it is computed time to estimate to complete (Kerzner 2018). It is
mainly expressed through using schedule variance as well as schedule performance index.
Any changes on the project schedule baseline provides impact on project progress as well as
cause project delays.
Identify the project schedule variance
The schedule variance is estimated by subtracting budgeted cost of work scheduled
(BCWS) from budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP). BCWS is measured as budget for
entire project plan while BCWP is measured as cost of actual work performed (Heagney
2016)
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Task Name % Complete BCWP BCWS SV
Initiation Phase 100% $19,280.00 $19,280.00 $0.00
Define project plan 100% $5,440.00 $5,440.00 $0.00
Start with business case 100% $1,440.00 $1,440.00 $0.00
Feasibility study 100% $5,440.00 $5,440.00 $0.00
Assign stakeholders 100% $1,200.00 $1,200.00 $0.00
Create project charter 100% $2,880.00 $2,880.00 $0.00
Project team meetings 100% $1,440.00 $1,440.00 $0.00
Kick off project meeting 100% $1,440.00 $1,440.00 $0.00
Planning Phase 99% $11,962.40 $12,080.00 -$117.60
Develop roadmap of plan 100% $2,240.00 $2,240.00 $0.00
Define SMART goals 99% $2,534.40 $2,560.00 -$25.60
Define project scope 90% $648.00 $720.00 -$72.00
Identify cost and resources 100% $2,400.00 $2,400.00 $0.00
Establish baseline 99% $554.40 $560.00 -$5.60
Communication plan 99% $1,425.60 $1,440.00 -$14.40
Risk management plan 100% $2,160.00 $2,160.00 $0.00
Execution Phase 0% $0.00 $8,720.00 -$8,720.00
Develop project team 0% $0.00 $1,200.00 -$1,200.00

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Assign project resources 0% $0.00 $1,120.00 -$1,120.00
Execute of project management
plan
0% $0.00 $1,120.00 -$1,120.00
Status project meetings 0% $0.00 $2,720.00 -$2,720.00
Update the schedule 0% $0.00 $2,560.00 -$2,560.00
Monitoring Phase 0% $0.00 $5,680.00 -$5,680.00
Analyze project objectives 0% $0.00 $1,440.00 -$1,440.00
Quality deliverables 0% $0.00 $2,880.00 -$2,880.00
Project performance 0% $0.00 $1,360.00 -$1,360.00
Closure Phase 0% $0.00 $4,880.00 -$4,880.00
Recognize team members 0% $0.00 $800.00 -$800.00
Sign off the plan 0% $0.00 $1,360.00 -$1,360.00
Identify project failures 0% $0.00 $1,280.00 -$1,280.00
Understand lessons learned 0% $0.00 $1,440.00 -$1,440.00
The estimated schedule variance of the project plan is around -$19,397, means the
project plan is behind the schedule.
Response to project changes
The project schedule faces issues due to delay in the project processes. The project
schedule is behind the estimated time. In order to meet the scheduled time as well as

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objectives of the project plan, the project manager is required to assign more resources to the
project tasks so that in short period of time, the resources can back up the delayed activities
and complete the work on scheduled plan.

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References
Harrison, F. and Lock, D., 2017. Advanced project management: a structured approach.
Routledge.
Heagney, J., 2016. Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner, H., 2018. Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John
Wiley & Sons.
Lock, D., 2017. The essentials of project management. Routledge.
Meredith, J.R., Mantel Jr, S.J. and Shafer, S.M., 2017. Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.