Project Evaluation: Analysis of Crossrail Project Management

This report provides a critical evaluation of a project, likely a case study on the Crossrail project. It includes an introduction to project management, followed by an analysis of the project's scope, main requirements, and work breakdown structure. The report delves into risk analysis, the creation of a Gantt chart, and stakeholder management strategies. It examines the project team structure, organizational evaluation, and includes a memorandum to a senior manager. Furthermore, it analyzes team member motivation throughout the project's lifecycle and summarizes the project's closure. The report references relevant literature and offers a comprehensive overview of project management principles and their application in a real-world context, such as the Crossrail project in the UK.

CRITICAL EVALUATION
OF A PROJECT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
1. Scope of the project.................................................................................................................3
2. Main requirements of the project.............................................................................................3
3. Work breakdown structure......................................................................................................4
4. Risk Analysis...........................................................................................................................4
5. Gantt Chart...............................................................................................................................5
6. Stakeholders management.......................................................................................................6
7. Project team structure and evaluation of organisation.............................................................7
8. Memorandum to senior manager.............................................................................................7
9. Analysis of motivation toward the project at beginning, part way through among team
member........................................................................................................................................9
10. Summary of closure of project............................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................26
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INTRODUCTION
Project management is a process of managing the task, leading the team regarding the
way particular task can be accomplished for achievement of project goals. Cross rail is real life
biggest transportation infrastructure project that has been undertaken in United Kingdom. This
report has contained pertaining to the way manager effective manage the project by coordinating
resources, team member towards end objectives. It has covered crucial information pertaining to
the scope of project, its need and main requirements of the project. Moreover it has covered
memorandum to senior manager that inform all activities that the project manager will undertake
in order to complete the task.
MAIN BODY
1. Scope of the project
Extent of the scheme Cross rail launched an initiative known as Project guarantee in order to re-
examine design and creation strategy for the multibillion development. The proposal of the
project was intuitive due to vital requirement related to challenges of time and cost risk in
brightness of the mission already forecasting expenses essentially more than the assured and
permitted budget of £16 billion (Winch, G., 2018). Program director of the plan helped to resolve
the issue related to risks along with grouping of approaching reverse opening dates and thus
wounding escalating payment. Various options has been provided by the project sponsors such as
changes could be achieved within the transport of London without any sacrifice of stations and
other huge road and rail network fundamentals of a scheme that will see almost 42 km of large
distance running tunnels and mined underground stations below the streets of London. After
complete project analysis, the Cross rail expects to close the plan at below £15.8 billion. From
this cross rail project experiences it has been believed that value based review offers huge
amount of benefits to other major similar projects as well.
2. Main requirements of the project
The major requirements of the project related to construction of Cross rail which has been
governed by various minimum requirements which comprises with general principles related to
the project, the construction code and permission for constructing the complete project, the
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planning as well as tradition communication and finally the ecological message. These
requirements offer detail for control which contractors and other candidates working in order to
build the railway scheme (Smyrk, J.R., 2019). The requirements has been analysed and
developed by Cross London rail along with the local authorities and statutory agencies. The
planning and heritage memorandum was signed by twenty local authorities that wished to
become qualifying authorities for the purpose of the act related to construction.
3. Work breakdown structure
Work break down structure in construction is a hierarchical way of organizing a project related
to construction. It is basically a single manuscript which divides the mission deliverables into
various convenient portions which are known as work parcels. The basic purpose of using this
tool in projects and programs is taking initiatives in order to understand the work that has to be
done in order to successfully produce deliverables. It describes and split the work in requisite and
suitable manner is the leading advantage of creating work breakdown structure in well
prearranged manner. An effective work break down structure includes various activities and final
outcome. The best approach within the WBS is placing the outcome as summary activities and
breaking down those actions into thorough performances on the basis of work required in order
to meet the final results. In this project, WBS includes various stages including initialising,
planning, execution, monitoring and closure steps which are further divided into sub categories
which helps to prepare development of integrated teams and encouragement in order to share
information between different teams in the development of programmes which ensures that the
risk of reworks and unnecessary delays were reduced as the teams are pre aware about what to
do and could able to collect right information when needed from other team members (Levy,
S.M., 2018).
4. Risk Analysis
Risk is a measurable parts of indecision for which we are able to approximation the incidence
likelihood and the dimension of scratch. The risk is supposed as a divergence from the required
stage. It can be optimistic as well as depressing in nature (Gibson, G.E., 2019). It is basically
analysis of risk associated to a variety of belongings even at the very first or primary stage i.e.
planning and programming of construction of a project. The examination was over and done with
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arithmetical technique which conclude the data that has been utilized and therefore affects the
superiority of finishing outcome. In the context of project management, risk analysis has been
done by the project managers which ensure that the negative impacts of the effects of risk on
project objectives are minimized and the positive impacts of the risk or any kind of uncertainty
on project objectives are maximised.
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