Project Management Report: Queen Street Redevelopment Project Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Glasgow Queen Street station redevelopment project, focusing on the application of project management principles. The report begins with an introduction to the project, highlighting its scope, objectives, and the importance of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP). It emphasizes the significance of project planning and scheduling in ensuring the project's success, including aspects like resource allocation, time management, and risk mitigation. The report explores the benefits of effective project management, such as improved outcomes, enhanced quality, and increased customer satisfaction. It also delves into the factors essential for successful project management, including strategic alignment, leadership, and risk management strategies. The report identifies potential risks associated with the project, such as safety issues, budget overruns, and time management challenges, and offers recommendations for mitigation. The analysis incorporates relevant project management tools and techniques, such as Gantt charts and dashboards, and concludes with a summary of key findings and recommendations for successful project execution.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
About Glasgow’s gateway to Scotland............................................................................................2
About the project.............................................................................................................................2
Benefits of project management......................................................................................................3
Project Planning and scheduling importance...................................................................................4
Project management tool.................................................................................................................5
Factors essential for successful project management......................................................................5
Risks associated with project...........................................................................................................6
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The objective of using project management is that it helps in ensuring that all the projects
are executed successfully without any errors. This paper will focus on evaluating the case study
of Scotland railway station. Currently the location handles around 20 million passengers. There
arises a need to organize the different components of railway station so that it becomes easy to
manage the overall performance. The report will focus on explaining the importance of success
in project management. Project management is considered as crucial as this helps in organizing
the planning and scheduling the process effectively.
About Glasgow’s gateway to Scotland
The network rail project is carried out for the purpose of offering better facilities towards
the travellers. With the redevelopment of the station it is expected that the building will have
both internal and external qualities. The new station facilities that are offered with the
redevelopment include offering easy accessibility towards the toilets, ticket office and lost
property. This will also ensure that a better space will be offered towards the retail. The project
has also been carried out for the purpose of extending the platforms for accommodating longer
trains with eight carriages. The project is mainly carried out for the purpose of improving the
performance.
About the project
The main importance of project scheduling in the Glasgow queen street station project is
that it ensures that the project has been executed within the estimated time and by maintaining

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proper quality. With the help of proper project scheduling it becomes easy to measure the project
success ratio and also ensures that resources are identified successfully (Sane 2019). The
important factors that are needed to keep in mind while managing the project schedule is to
include proper financial documentation, quality assurance and management of the project
factors. The main aim of the Glasgow project is to offer a better accessibility with the help of a
gateway. This project will connect Glasgow’s gateway to Scotland. Glasgow Queen Street
station is considered to be the third most busiest railway station of Scotland’s, offering
connection between the different parts of the city and wider Glasgow. Due to the wide number of
passengers it becomes essential tore develop the station so that it becomes easy to expand the
station (Sajad et al. 2016). With the reconstruction it will become easy to offer a better space
towards the passengers. It is important for project to get executed efficiently so that it becomes
easy to manage the performance.
Benefits of project management
The project management is a business tool that is powerful and it can deliver various benefits for
the businesses of various sizes. It provides procedures, guidelines and methods in order to assists
the managers of the project to administer the people and the activities those are involved on the
projects. The project management maximizes the chances of success and helps the managers of
the project to consistently deliver the project on time.
The major benefit of the project management is that it assists the managers of the project to
manage the projects and enable the managers of the project to solve the issues of the project
quickly. The benefits of project management include the following:
 Upgrade the chances of accomplishing the desired outcome

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 Gain a fresh perspective of the project and the way by which it fits the strategy of the
business.
 Setting the schedule, budget and the scope from the start of the project
 Upgrade the quality and the productivity of the work
 Mitigation of the risks of the project that is failing
 Maximizes the satisfaction of the customers
 Gain the competitive advantage and then increase the bottom line of the project.
 Satisfy different requirements of the stakeholders of the project.
Project Planning and scheduling importance
Project planning and scheduling considered as an important aspect as this helps in
improving the performance of the project. Project planning and scheduling is considered as an
important factor as this helps in improving the overall performance. The key phases that are
associated with project planning include initiation, planning, design, execution and closure.
These phases are considered to be the most important for developing project successfully. Project
planning plays a crucial role in project management as this helps in guiding the stakeholders,
team members and sponsors for successfully carrying out a project (vom Brocke et al. 2016).
Apart from this it has been observed that project scheduling also plays a crucial role in enhancing
the project success rate. For the purpose of keeping the project on track it is important for the
project team members to ensure that a realistic time frame is set for the purpose of executing the
project successfully (Martens and Carvalho 2017). Moreover with early scheduling of a project
the chances of cost overrun can be reduced. Every resource can be scheduled before executing

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the project successfully. Thus it can be stated that with the help of proper project management
knowledge it becomes easy to manage the project efficiently.
Project management tool
Project management tools and techniques are used for the purpose of providing a better
support towards the project development process. The main reason behind using project
management tools is that it offers huge range of features towards the users. The major reason
behind using project management tool is that it allows the project to plan the tasks and subtasks
effectively so that it can provide better support. This ensures that the chances of risks are reduced
within the project (Kerzner 2017). The different project management tools that are used for the
purpose of successfully executing a project include dashboards, reports, Gantt chart and
timesheet. These tools are used for successfully evaluating the components associated with the
project.
Factors essential for successful project management
Project management is considered to be efficient as this helps in executing the project
effectively. Project management is considered to be an important aspect as this ensures that
delivering the project successfully based on the business perspective. The key components that
are needed to be included for managing the project successfully include aligning the project
strategically for the purpose of meeting the objective. In addition to this project management also
helps in developing proper leadership (Joslin and Müller 2016). Project management is
considered to be essential as this ensures there’s a proper plan for executing on strategic goals.

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With proper alignment of project it becomes easy to enhance the performance. With proper
project planning it becomes easy to improve the performance.
Risks associated with project
The major risks that are likely to be come with the project implementation are described
below:
Safety issue: The safety issues that can lead to harm towards the workers and can cause
serious injuring. While working within a construction site it becomes essential to manage the
safety so that it becomes easy to enhance the performance.
Budget overrun: Budget overrun due to lack of scheduling can be faced within the
project. Thus there is a need to implement proper measures that will remove the budget overrun
possibilities.
Time management issue: The project needs to be scheduled at the beginning with proper
time management so that it becomes easy to execute the project within the time. Time
management issue is considered as one of the biggest concerns as this hampers the overall
performance.
Lack of resources: Without proper resources it will become difficult to manage the
overall performance. The resource needs to be managed within the project so that it does not
hamper the development process.
Improper design: Before executing the project development it becomes essential to
ensure that proper design is offered towards the development process.

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Errors with the equipment and tools: it has been observed that due to error in equipment
it becomes easy to manage the performance. The error needs to be managed properly so that it
becomes easy to improve the performance.
Recommendation
In order to successfully execute a project it becomes essential to remove the risks. For the
purpose of mitigating the risks it is important to implement proper recommendation that will
remove the possible project risks. The ways in which the issues can be mitigated are discussed
below:
 All the project details needs to be identified and listed before executing
 Needs to set realistic expectations
 Establishing proper measureable criteria that will be capable of achieving success
 Managing the risks effectively
 Evaluating all the components of project successfully
 Engaging team members effectively
Conclusion
The paper has evaluated the importance of project management tools and techniques. It
becomes essential to implement proper measures to execute the project successfully. Project
management knowledge helps in securing the data effectively and also ensures that proper
responsibility is taken while executing a project. The report has explained the necessity of having
effective project management techniques for successful implementation of a project.

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