Scottish Parliament Project Report

Running head: SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PROJECT
Scottish Parliament Project
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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PROJECT1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Analyze strained relationship between the Project Sponsor and the former project manager...2
Literature on emergence of conflict...........................................................................................3
Negotiation between Paul Curran and project sponsor..............................................................5
Negotiation.................................................................................................................................6
Identification of issues and justification of decisions............................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PROJECT2
Introduction
The report is reflected on case study of Scottish Parliament Project to examine how a
poor plan communication weakens achievement of a public sector project. The study
establishes an importance of the communication to support large as well as complex project
from the structural perspectives. The main objective of this paper is to determine effect of the
project manager as well as project sponsor relationships due to poor communication (Dainty,
Moore and Murray 2006). Interaction between two key people in the project is considered as
main attributes to Scottish Parliament Project success and failure.
The report is mainly focused on managing project conflicts as well as efficient
negotiation. A literature study is also conducted on conflicts, stages, various types of
conflicts, and a background of conflict is also provided. Due to communication problems,
issues are raised in the project may lead to project failure. Therefore, there is discussion of
possible negotiation issues and justifications of decisions to identify the issues.
Analyze strained relationship between the Project Sponsor and the former
project manager
Mr Armstrong was the former project manager and Mrs Doig was being selected as
the project sponsor of parliament buildings in the year 1998. Mrs Doig was not assumed
active responsibilities of sponsor for Holyrood till time of the successful declaration of the
design team. There is strained connection between Project Sponsor in addition to earlier
project manager owing to the fact that Mrs Doig had lack of expertise in matters of project as
well as construction. It leads to lot of poor decisions to adopt the construction management as
parliament building project (Fraser 2004). Lack of construction knowledge of the project
sponsor lead to increase in project cost while most important is the construction stage
(Makins 2011). Increase into the cost of construction caused due to lack of design