Project Management: Critical Evaluation of High-Speed 1 (HS1) Project

This report provides a critical evaluation of the High-Speed 1 (HS1) project, a significant infrastructure undertaking. It begins by outlining the project's scope, including its connection of the Channel Tunnel to London, and details the main requirements for its successful completion. The work breakdown structure is presented, followed by a comprehensive risk assessment, identifying potential challenges and mitigation strategies. A Gantt chart illustrates the project timeline, and stakeholder mapping clarifies the various parties involved and their interests. The project team structure and an evaluation of the project's overall management are also included, along with a memorandum to senior management summarizing key findings. The report concludes with a discussion of the motivation behind the project and its overall success, referencing key project management principles and practices. References are provided for further research.

Critical Evaluation of a
Project

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
1. Outline the scope of the project and its involvement..............................................................3
2. Main requirements of project .................................................................................................3
3. Work breakdown structure .....................................................................................................4
4. Risk Assessment......................................................................................................................5
5. Gantt chart...............................................................................................................................7
6. Stakeholder Mapping............................................................................................................10
7. Project team structure and Evaluation of project..................................................................11
8. Memorandum to senior manager..........................................................................................12
10.Motivation towards project..................................................................................................13
11. CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Project management involves several steps or process that are used in order to proceed
the project so that desired outcome can be achieved in limited time-frame and budget. Project
manager is responsible for diving the task that need to be performed by specific individual so
that end goals can be achieved. This report contained detailed related to one of the real life
project named as High – speed1 (HS1) that is project related to legally the channel tunnel rail
link. The line carrier international passengers between Europe and United Kingdom which cost
around £5.8 billion to opened and build on 14 November 2007. Thus, the report contained all
crucial information related to the project and the way it can be managed so that best result can be
obtained.
1. Outline the scope of the project and its involvement
High – speed1 (HS1) is one of the biggest project that have wide scope as it was initially
began in 1989, in which initially the project was proposed in order to connect Channel Tunnels
to London. It is first high- speed railway that contribute in 230Kph domestic services and 300
Kph for international services. Thus in order to made interconnection between tunnels there are
several steps or procedures has been followed to complete the project in minimum time possible
for better outcome. For completion of project of HS1, Rail Link engineering was appointed that
is joint venture between Halcrow, Systra, Bechtal and Arup. Project directors, Ailie MacAdam
has make use of collaborative practices at unprecedented in construction industry. It has
continuously review the contract and procurement strategy for each type of work such
involvement has contribute in getting maximum outcome (High Speed 1: A new benchmark in
project management, 2020). The project is needed to be implemented in order to build better
interconnection between domestic and international trains so that long distance commuters can
reach central London in less than half years. Thereby it contribute in saving time, cost of
travelling of people that travel from one place to another for different purposes.
2. Main requirements of project
The main requirement of project is that through the implementation of above project Britian is
able to get first new successful railway line over a century. Combination of government and
private sources has contributed in benefiting people from having a safe railway travel from St
pancras International (High Speed 1, 2019). Project will lead in decreasing overall time takes for
journey to Brussels as less than 2 hour will be taken therefore it is crucial to complete the project
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so that people living in the society can get maximum benefits. At the same time journey time
from central London to Ebbsfleet in north fleet will be 17 as compared to 50 minute so overall it
is necessary for providing better services to key individuals.
3. Work breakdown structure
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Project related to project High – speed1 (HS1)
Implementation ClosureInitialisationPlanning Monitoring
and
execution
Planning
Outline of
activities
that need to be
performed
Allotment of
roles
and
responsibilities
Implement the
task plan
Monitoring
performance
and
outcome of the
Evaluation
Designing overall
budget
Planing activities
that
need to be
Communication
of information
Use of
technology
and
different method
to complete
Measuring
performance
of each
team members
Checking
necessary
Improvement
need to be made
Delegating task

4. Risk Assessment
It is process in which that helps in identifying hazard, potential risk factors involved in
particular project that can lead to high threat or barrier in attaining end goals. It also helped in
understanding associated hazard and the way it can be minimised so that better outcome can be
gained. There are several risk associated with project implementation that acts in getting specific
results such as:
Type of risk Like
liho
od
Impact Steps taken to Mitigate Score
Resources
risk
5 Due to lack availability of
unskilled labour project
manager is facing difficulty in
having enough labour that can
performed their respective task
in order to complete the
project in best possible
manner. Despite of less
availability of labour, there is
huge involvement of financial
risk as government has make
investment of capital in order
to provide better travel
facilities to public (Slobogin,
There are few steps which has
been taken by project manager
of High – speed1 (HS1)
in order to mitigate the
resources risk so that several
task can be performed
simultaneously and goals can
be achieved. Manager has
tried to find out several
sources from which it can
gathered sufficient resources
so that task can be completed
and project can be effectively
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2017). managed.
Legal risk 3 There are several rules and
regulation that are made by
government or legal
procedures which acts as risk
in implementation of the High
– speed1 (HS1) Project. As
project even before and after
brexit is facing situations of
shortage of skills thus there
were limited employees to
complete the task.
Project manager of High –
speed1 (HS1) in order to
mitigate legal risk has decided
to abide to all laws and
regulation so that no risk can
be caused to the project in any
circumstances.
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Communicati
on risk
3 The scope of project High –
speed1 (HS1) is wide which
involved communication or
sharing of information from
one several individuals. Due to
numerous people involved in
communication there is more
risk of transfer of information
For mitigating risk related to
communication project
manager has ensure that team
member freely exchanged the
information to each other so
that no communication risk
can be arise in any situation.
It has provide open
environment with clearly
stating roles and
responsibilities to each team
members that resulted in
effectively flow of
information (Kovačević and
et.al., 2020).
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Time risk 5 It can be stated that the
project of High – speed1
(HS1) involved time risk. As
The project manager of High
– speed1 (HS1) has tried to set
appropriate timeline and
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there are several activities
involved which need to be
completed in specific time-
frame so that project can be
implemented as desired. There
are several uncertain events
which has caused delay in
implementation of projects
(Kupeshova, Lazanyuk and
Kareke, 2019).
deadline in which particular
task need to be completed so
that no further delay can be
caused. It has continously
measure and monitors
performance of each
individuals so that there is
minimum wastage of time.
5. Gantt chart
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6. Stakeholder Mapping
High speed (HS1) has been identified as one of the most highly important project within
UK where operation and maintaining high speed at UK's only high speed railway as well as
stations along the routes of St Pancras International, Stratford International. It routes between
London and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam as well as domestic route from London to Kent.
Stakeholder mapping is process and strategic visual tool used to clarify and categorize which
enable business project to be expanded commercially on successful aspects dynamically. Use of
high speed route by both international and domestic traffic, has created varied technical
boundaries and interfaces where there are large focus on efficiency evolving scenarios.
Stakeholders such as regulators, customer’s operators and suppliers are widely crucial
stakeholder s within HS1, to make it widely successful project on longer run. The project
management is widely done by technical management services and advice for HS1, including
local authorities, network rail and operating companies where there are varied competencies of
innovation involved. Stakeholders such as contractors and suppliers of project have been
identified as widely crucial for HS1, on which business informative growth efficacy has been
profoundly grown. The stakeholders have been competently active to bring on wider strategic
functional standards to derive cultural growth and innovative scale connective strengths on
which commercial strengths have been competently advanced. There is keen competent
development demanded among shareholders profound scale functional growth within HS1, on
which keen potential targets have been growing informatively (Albats and et.al, 2020).
Stakeholders among investors have been analysed to be widely crucial for technical
capital growth an efficacy paradigm productively on longer time run scale, and enrichment of
varied new ideas formatively for new creative ideas. The profound stable growth among
consumers profound goodwill and revenue growth for successful project can be understood to be
widely crucial where best machines implementation with strategic innovation will enable
informative productive edged diversity to be enriched. HS1 as one of the main commercial
project at UK have been informatively heading towards staff capability development and
programmes enrichment with new progressive aspects, where strategic control delivers profound
control aspects among quality parameters. HS1 Stakeholder mapping has been identified to be
shaping capital expenditure programme worldwide, into valuable competence horizons
strategically on which team of experts are working. The success of whole project is estimated to
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be widely strong , with sound strategic risk aspects and delivery planning parameters profoundly
where project has seen continuous growth among work competencies. Stakeholders play wide
role of importance in bringing desired developed continuous efficacy horizons informatively and
also raise new scale connective strength raised aspects for directive strength. HS1 has also been
found to be heading towards strategic growth towards keen targets functional aspects, for
successful long term mapping of all stakeholders and their positive impact at project
development. HS1, also resources best skilled stakeholders holding potentialities such as vision
oriented scale domains and skilled competencies firmly for keen networking on larger horizons
profoundly developing shaped projected scale revenue targets at work (Srinivasan and Dhivya,
2020).
7. Project team structure and Evaluation of project
From the above analysis it can be stated that Ailie Macdam is a project directors of the
High – speed1 (HS1) and the project was completed by Rail link engineering. The organisation
has build one of the most huge project out of its various project as it the building a high speed
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Illustration 1: Team structure
(Source: Project Structure and Organisation, 2019)