Project Management Plan: Building a New Home in Australia - Report

This project management report details a comprehensive plan for constructing a new home in Australia, addressing scope, objectives, and deliverables. The plan includes a detailed schedule, risk assessment, and cost-benefit analysis, with a Gantt chart illustrating the timeline. The project, commencing on September 4, 2017, and scheduled for completion by June 4, 2018, aims to build a home using recycled materials while adhering to budget constraints and managing potential risks such as material quality and schedule delays. The report covers human resource roles, project assumptions, and a quality assurance plan, culminating in recommendations and conclusions to ensure project success. The project is designed to provide a stylish home while balancing environmental, economic, and social considerations.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Plan: Building a New Home
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:

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Executive Summary
The management report is based on defining a project plan for the project in order to build a new
home for a family in Australia. The project plan describes the scope, objective and deliverables
of constructing a new home. It also estimates the schedule and time of the project plan with
identification of risks and constraints, assumption and project approach. The project plan will
commerce on 4th September, 2017 and it will complete on 4th June, 2018. There is 196 days
excluding Saturday and Sunday as working days. The purpose is to finish the construction stages
on time such as acquire of land for home, getting of required approvals, building the home,
landscaping with external as well as internal decorating. The price of the raw materials is not
increasing more than 10 percent during the project course.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
2.0 Project Overview.......................................................................................................................4
2.1 Project Scope.........................................................................................................................4
2.2 Objectives and Deliverables..................................................................................................5
2.2.1 Objectives.......................................................................................................................5
2.2.2 Deliverables....................................................................................................................5
3.0 Project Constraints.....................................................................................................................5
4.0 Risks..........................................................................................................................................6
5.0 Assumptions..............................................................................................................................8
6.0 Project approach........................................................................................................................9
6.1 Human Resources..................................................................................................................9
7.0 Project Schedule......................................................................................................................11
7.1 Gantt chart and Milestones..................................................................................................16
7.1.1 Gantt chart....................................................................................................................16
7.1.2 Milestones.....................................................................................................................17
8.0 Cost benefit analysis................................................................................................................17
8.1 Budget of project.................................................................................................................17
8.1.1 Cost of human resources...............................................................................................21
8.2 Payback calculation.............................................................................................................22

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8.3 Discussion............................................................................................................................23
9.0 Quality Assurance....................................................................................................................24
10.0 Recommendation and Conclusion.........................................................................................25
10.1 Conclusion.........................................................................................................................25
10.2 Recommendations..............................................................................................................25
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................27

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1.0 Introduction
The project plan is based on building new home for a family in Australia. Due to increase
into population, there is requirement of good living standards. People are required stylish home
for their living; therefore a new contract is signed for home construction in Perth. The home is
built with a goal to use of recycled and reclaimed materials for its construction. The building of
the home will strike balance among environment, economics as well as society.
The report analyzes the project constraints, objectives and risks to complete the project
plan on time. The schedule is planned using Gantt chart and milestone schedule. The cost of the
project is estimated using cost benefit analysis. The quality of the project plan is assured by use
of good quality goods and materials for the construction purpose.
2.0 Project Overview
2.1 Project Scope
The main scope of this project plan is to build a home within nine months by analyzing
the needs as well as interests of the stakeholders. The project work is divided into manageable
components such as breakdown of the home into smaller components so that the project manager
can easily conduct the work. The in-scope of the project are delivery of services within the home,
landscaping, secured boundary fencing with construction as well as furnish of the home. The out-
of-scope items are land surveying of the construction site, furnishing and maintaining of the
property on completion.

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2.2 Objectives and Deliverables
2.2.1 Objectives
Following of the objectives of the project plan:
 To clear the site and install of electrical and drainage services for building of new home
in two months of initiate of execution phase
 To construct of home in nine months after purchasing of sign of contract
 To identify the possible risks regarding the construction of home
2.2.2 Deliverables
In order to build the new home, the project plan will produce the key deliverables as:
1. Provision of electricity as well as drainage services
2. Accessing to the new home with higher quality of roads
3. Construction of the recycled home with landscaping as well as furnishing
4. Construction of 3 bedroom home
5. Secured fencing with security gate
6. Communal as well as residential landscaping
3.0 Project Constraints
The project consists of triple constraints such as time, scope and cost. The objective of
this project plan is to realize the triple constraint. The main focus of this plan is to complete the
building of new home within nine months as mentioned into the contract. Second focus of this
project plan is to achieve the target in provided budget and before working into the project, the
cost of materials and equipments are estimated such that there is no exceed from provided

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budget. The estimated budget is $ 31,792 and within this budget, the procurement is done into
future. Building of new home with basement, grounds as well as first floor are done. The most
important factor of this plan is identification of scope. The project scope is building of home
within time as well as budget. The new home must allow for proper roadside parking. It reduces
size of the land spaces allocated.
4.0 Risks
Risk Description Likelihood Impact Status Mitigation strategies
Quality risk The quality of the raw
materials used to build
new home are not
matched with required
quality.
High High Open The project manager should
check for the quality of the
materials before used into
the project work. Backup of
the supplier are not
identified.
Inflation There is an increase
into price of the
materials and
equipments.
Medium High Open There is reservation of
extra money from the risk
management.
Stakeholder
risk
There is possibility of
change into
requirements. The
progress of project is
not up to the
Medium Mediu
m
Open The project plan should
focus on stakeholder’s
expectations and work
again to fill their new
needs.

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stakeholder’s
expectations.
Failure of
machinery
The machinery is not
working properly.
Medium Mediu
m
Open Extra machinery is
purchased and there is
option for backup of
machinery.
Schedule
risk
There is delay into
planning approval
resulted into project
delay.
Medium Low Open As earlier as possible, there
is required to apply for
planning approval and
followed to make sure that
approval is permitted when
required.
Load
shedding
The electricity is
affected and then the
machinery stopped
working because of
load shedding.
Low Low Open There is required to
purchase of generator.

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Impact/Likelihood Low Medium High
High Quality risk,
Medium Schedule risk Stakeholder risk,
Failure of machinery
Inflation
Low Load shedding
Table 1: Risk Register
5.0 Assumptions
Following are the project assumptions:
1. The final permission for the project plan will approve by the project management team in
required time.
2. There is enough selling of the land for building of new home in time required.
3. It is feasible to install of electricity and drainage services within new home.
4. All suppliers, services, resources and raw materials are available as needed by the project
manager.
5. The price of raw materials are not increasing more than 10 percent during the project
work

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6.0 Project approach
Type of resources Requirement
Human Resources The human resources required are project manager, team leader,
finance manager, project sponsor, quality manager, suppliers, site
supervisor, electrician, project supervisor and project staffs.
Equipments Cutter, Plumping sewerage equipments,
Transportation resources Trucks required for delivering of materials.
Materials Cement, steel and sand, wood,
Software resources The resources are required to design the home.
6.1 Human Resources
Roles of human
resources
Responsibilities
Project Manager 1. Deliver the project within time and budget
2. Manage the project staff, suppliers as well as customers
3. Undertaking of project activities needed to plan and execute
4. Authority to change the management plan
Team Leader 1. Lead the entire project team
2. Monitor the project work
3. Solve the problems among the team members
Finance Manager 1. Estimate the project budget

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2. Authority to inspect cost of each activities
3. Record the balances against the costs
Project Sponsor 1. Lead the project board
2. Approve the project requirements and resources
3. Collect fund for the project
4. Authorize acceptance of the final solutions delivered by the project
team member
Quality Manager 1. Authority to check for the quality of the materials used into
building work
2. Authority to make changes into quality
3. Review the internal processes of project plan
4. Conduct of periodic management of review the meetings
Suppliers 1. Supply of materials within time and receive the cost
2. Cash, delivery and collecting of mail
3. Report on the project work as scheduled
Site Supervisor 1. Survey the location and site of the construction
2. Assess of a variety of safety risks and fix the hazards
3. Understand the organizational rules and regulations
Electrician 1. Installation and maintenance of wiring and lightning systems
2. Inspect of electrical components
3. Identification of electrical issues with the testing devices
4. Direct the workers to install and maintain electrical wiring and
equipments

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Project Supervisor 1. Development and implementation of project work plans
2. Review the plan and meet with change requirements
3. Conduct of onsite visits and coordination with the operational
personnel
4. Conducting of quality work
5. Supervision and stimulation of procurement activities
6. Support towards cost savings and development initiatives
Project Staff 1. Contribution towards project objectives
2. Completion of project deliverables and project reports
3. Working to meet with business requirements
4. Documentation of the project process
7.0 Project Schedule
WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource Names
0
Project plan on
building of home
196 days Mon 9/4/17 Mon 6/4/18
1 Initiation phase 25 days Mon 9/4/17 Fri 10/6/17
1.1
Appointment of
project team
3 days Mon 9/4/17 Wed 9/6/17 Project Manager, Team Leader
1.2 Set up the project 5 days Thu 9/7/17 Wed 9/13/17 Project Manager, Team Leader