Colorado Springs Parade Project: Scope, Risks, and Stakeholders

This project outlines the planning and execution of a parade in Colorado Springs to welcome returning troops. It includes a scope overview, addressing business objectives, milestones, and challenges such as fundraising and resource allocation. The project identifies key stakeholders, details resource management (including city transportation and traffic control), and outlines operational principles involving fire and police departments. The assignment also covers risk assessment, including financial, security, and logistical challenges. The document emphasizes the importance of teamwork, project team organisation, and the application of leadership in managing the project. The project incorporates learnings from previous experiences to improve future project execution.

COLORADO SPRINGS WELCOME HOME PARADE:
Scope Overview
The scope is based on working over the planning of a parade to welcome the different troops that
are returning from Iraq. With this, there is a proper project management competency with time
management so that there are no issues related to the attacks etc.
Business objectives
The teams have come forward to plan the event. With this, there is a proper fund raising which is
a major part of the project.
Milestones
There are fundraising events, with the proper communication with the other stakeholders who
could work on the planning and offer or ask for assistance as well. The challenges are the lack of
money in a frame of time to complete the project. The project team face the challenges with the
budgeting and the reimbursement where the city also could not handle the finance of the event.
Risks and Assumptions
The risks are related to the finance, security, safety and the other issues related to the catering
and the clean-up in a very short time.
Stakeholder listing
The stakeholders are the people who are going to be a part of the fundraising, the team planning
the same, the committee and the management team committee as well of City Council of
Colorado Springs.

Resources
There are different resources which have been taken from the coordination to the donation of city
transportations, where the soldiers with participate in the parade. The working with the city
policy for help in parking and easily handling the different issues that arise now. The
coordination with the city engineers is also for controlling the traffic lights. This will be
important for minimising the effects of the city traffic. A proper and a secured free food with
service from the local restaurant franchise is a challenging task.
Team operating principles
The operations include the management of the fire and the police departments, handling the
congestion which comes from the alternate routes for the cars at the time of parade. With this,
the fire department is also positioned for the rescuing of the crews with the routes wit preventing
the problems of dehydration.
Lesson learnt
This will help in project team organisation and execution in a proper manner, with the different
fund-raising activities that are done mainly to coordinate the soldiers and the planning. The team
work is always important for handling the project management.
References
Hoegl, M., & Muethel, M. (2016). Enabling shared leadership in virtual project teams: A practitioners'
guide. Project Management Journal, 47(1), 7-12.
Midler, C., Killen, C. P., & Kock, A. (2016). Project and Innovation Management: Bridging Contemporary
Trends in Theory and Practice. Project Management Journal, 47(2), 3-7.