Managing Operations and Projects

Managing Operations
and Projects

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Overview and Scope of project...................................................................................................1
Project Cost Management...........................................................................................................2
Project Time Management..........................................................................................................3
Project Risk Management...........................................................................................................5
Project Communication Management.........................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Project management is a practice in which number of activities defined through project
plan is initiated for performance. In project management planing, organising, managing and
controlling of various project related activities are performed so that goals and objectives
specified for project is achieved. Project plan is defined in which number of activities and
management of all the organisational skills are defined. In this project a plan needs to be
prepared to conduct an event (Butler, Vijayasarathy and Roberts, 2019). The plan cover al the
key areas of project which are project scope management, project time management, project cost
management, project risk management and communication management of the project.
MAIN BODY
Overview and Scope of project
This project is initiated in order to organise an event for Boolmsbury Institute to arrange
a three-day welcome and induction event for the next academic year. The event will take place in
September 2020 and all the activities needs to be arrange for such event. This event will be held
at large scale and number of activities needs to be performed to provide this event. A venue will
be provided, decorations will be done, stage will be build, different segments will be organised
for students and parents, welcome facilities will be arranged. Together with this some
influencing and knowledgable speakers will be called. Catering services, food and beverage
facilities and a desk for information will be provided to arrange such event.
The project is arranged by Boolmsbury Institute so that communication regarding quality
and quantity of academic services provided in the institute (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016). This will
help to increase market for the institute and intakes for the next year will be made facilitated. The
project is available with constraint to make accurate prediction for number of participants
through which necessary arrangement can be made. For the last years details of the event it is
assumed that there are approx thousand of participants are expected in the event. Work
Breakdown Structure tool will be used for this project so that all the activities will be divided
into small parts to ensure its effective performance. WBS of this academic event is as follows-
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