Study Skills & Project Management: Task 2 Business case

Study Skills & Project
Management: Task 2
Business case

Executive Summary
The study is about the project that is carried out by the Challenge UK which is an
independent holiday organization of the country. It is found that the organization offers holiday
courses for the people of all age group and currently operating at four different locations It is
suggested that the challenge UK needs to implement computing and IT techniques for betterment
of business. The project portfolio includes Gantt Chart, Risk register table, cash & cost analysis,
communication strategy, table of resource analysis, fundamental & non-fundamental requirement
and stakeholder analysis.

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Case Study analysis:........................................................................................................................3
Recommendation for best solution..................................................................................................5
Project portfolio...............................................................................................................................5
Gantt Chart:.....................................................................................................................................5
A Risk Register Table......................................................................................................................6
Costs / cash flow Spreadsheet..........................................................................................................6
Resource analysis table:...................................................................................................................7
Functional and non functional requirements...................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Project management is about managing a project successfully in order to attain the set
project goals efficiently. It is related to completing different stages of projects efficiently.
Without effective project management, it is quiet difficult to accomplish the project goals. While
completing a project, different activities are performed in order to attain the set goals (Fewings
and Henjewele, 2019). Main aim of the present study is to analyze the effectiveness of the
project that is undertaken by the Challenge UK. In the present study, challenge UK is taken into
consideration that offers holiday courses. It is known as one of the independent holiday specialist
that is headquartered in Sheffield. It offers holiday courses for the people of all age group and
currently operating at four different locations such as British isles, Wales, Cumbri and
Derbyshire. They offer accommodation services to the people who are taking the course. The
present study will cover the problems that are being faced by the respective holiday company. It
will include suitable recommendations and project artifacts including different elements of the
project. Here, the project articulate will include elements like Gantt Chart, risk register, cash
flow spreadsheet, table related to resource analysis along with a list of functional and non-
functional requirements and analysis of stakeholders.
Case Study analysis:
The project is carried by a holiday specialist organization named as challenge UK. It is a
small independent activity holiday specialist, headquartered in UK. It offers activity holiday as
well outdoor courses for the people of different age group. They are operating at 4 location and
each centre of the entity offers courses of different level of difficulty and lengths. There are
courses such as canoeing, rock climbing, caving etc. All the course offered by the organization
also include the price of accommodation hence people have option to book into a hostel if the
free space is available. The each course centre has the capacity of accommodating nearly 160
people at a time. The course are scheduled for a specific time of the year and it is generally
booked by the mixture of the companies, school parties and the individuals. Additionally, there is
a whole project team who is managing the project. There is managing director who is the
superior person and take all the necessary decisions. Issuing clerk, booking manager, activity
manager and accounts manager work under the managing director to attain the pre-defined goals