Project Planning, Analysis and Management
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................5ACTIVITY 1........................................................................................................................................51.1 Appraising the business objectives and determining the project which will be needed tosuccessfully carry out the relocation.................................................................................................51.2 Developing the necessary project sub divisions and produce high level estimates of theresources needed to complete project including time and costs.......................................................6ACTIVITY 2........................................................................................................................................81.3 Describing and evaluating a suitable methodology for ERP project..........................................81.4 Assessment of the feasibility of ERP project..............................................................................92.1 Structure for the management and administration of ERP project.............................................92.2 Defining the roles and responsibilities of staff who will manage ERP project........................103.2 Job description and person specification for a project manager...............................................12ACTIVITY 3......................................................................................................................................132.3 Project plan...............................................................................................................................13ACTIVITY 4......................................................................................................................................163.1 Assessment of alternative project team structure......................................................................163.3 Designing of process for quality management of the project...................................................163.4 Managing project change proposals.........................................................................................174.1 Issues and risks that may impede a project...............................................................................184.2 Issues and risks likely to be encountered in the final stage of ERP project.............................194.3 Designing of monitoring and appraising the status of a project...............................................205.1 Detecting and managing issues arising in the course of projects.............................................20ACTIVITY 6......................................................................................................................................225.2 Assessment of the tasks needed to be completed in the final stages of a project.....................22CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................22REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................232
LIST OF TABLETable 1 Time scale of ERP system project...........................................................................................8Table 2 Project plan of ERP system...................................................................................................13Table 1: Issues and risks that may impede a project..........................................................................183
LIST OF FIGURES 4
Figure 1 Work breakdown structure of ERP Project............................................................................7Figure 2 Structure for the management and administration of ERP project......................................10Figure 3 Gantt Chart...........................................................................................................................14Figure 4 Network Diagram.................................................................................................................15Figure 5 Alternative structure for the management and administration of ERP project....................16Figure 6 Change Control Process.......................................................................................................185
INTRODUCTION Project management is the application of knowledge, tools, skills and techniques to developthe activities in order to meet the requirements. The objective behind using this concept is to attainall of the project goals within the given constraints (Kerzner, 2013). There are various techniquesthat use by the organizations to manage their simple as well as complex projects in an effectivemanner. The present research is based on project management topic where a case study of anenterprise is taking into the consideration which is planning to relocate its office from one place toanother due to some reasons (Burke, 2013). As per the given case study, it has determined thatcompany has based in the centre of London where it has provided consultancy services tobusinesses around the world in the area of management development. It is a purely administrativewhere all consultants work remotely from home. The Managing Director has announced that theoffices will be relocated to the area around Banbury, Oxfordshire with the aim of bring thereduction in various costs. For this, it has planned to prepare a team from the office itself and hasinvolved consultants to plan so that office relocation plan can be executed. Along with this,Managing Director of the organization has wished to retain the same size administrative team.During this movement, some objectives have been decided which will make this plan moresuccessful and effective. ACTIVITY 11.1 Appraising the business objectives and determining the project which will be needed to successfully carry out the relocationAccording to given case study, Managing Director of a company is planning to relocate itsoffice from London to Banbury, Oxfordshire in order to reduce costs. In this context, a small teamfor project has developed within the organization where some consultants have involved in the plan.For this, some business objectives have decided by Managing Director of the firm that associatedwith the move (Meredith and Mantel Jr, 2011). Appraising of these aims is as follows: Company wants to continue grow business income by 10% on annul basis. With the help ofthis, it will become easy for the firm to increase the working capital amount for the newprojects and services (Schwalbe, 2015). Second objective has increase profitability partially by bring the reduction in physical costsrelated to accommodation. The relocation of office at new place will help the organization tominimize the expenses of accommodation. By doing this, it will easy to keep control overthe expenses and enhance partial profitability (Wysocki, 2011). 6
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