University Project Management Report: Anisha Elderly Care Facility

This report provides an overview of a project focused on improving healthcare delivery at Anisha Elderly Care Facility. It details the project's objectives, which include streamlining processes to enhance patient care. The report includes updates on the service description, information about the organization, and challenges encountered during the project. It identifies key stakeholders, presents a work breakdown structure, and outlines the project schedule using a Gantt chart. The report concludes by summarizing the project's progress and highlighting the importance of effective project management in achieving the desired healthcare improvements. The report references several project management resources and methodologies to support its findings.

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Project Management
Name of Student
Name of University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Updates on Service Description...........................................................................................2
Updates on the Information of the Organization.................................................................2
Challenges to overcome.......................................................................................................3
Stakeholders and Project Team...........................................................................................3
Work Breakdown Structure.................................................................................................4
Project Schedule..................................................................................................................7
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7
References............................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The purpose of the report is to discuss the changes and the updates of the healthcare
delivery project. The project was undertaken with an aim of improving the healthcare delivery of
an organization. The purpose of the project is to streamline the different processes of an
organization so that better healthcare can be delivered to the customers. This report will be
accessing the progress of the project by identifying the project stakeholders, challenges faced and
their mitigation approaches.
Updates on Service Description
The services offered by this project include improving the healthcare delivery of Anisha
elderly care facility. The project involves dividing the project into a number of subunits which
include project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and completion (Kerzner & Kerzner,
2017). Subdivision of the entire project into a number of smaller tasks has enabled better
management of the same.
Updates on the Information of the Organization
Anisha elderly care facility is located in Austin and it works for the old people. This
healthcare organization provides residential and healthcare facilities to the elderly people. This
project has been undertaken in order to improve the healthcare services that the organization
provides. For this project, a realistic budget of 1,025,000 is set.
The access to the project specifics will be obtained from the regular progress report. It is
the responsibility of the project manager to cascade all the necessary information to the project
team so that the entire team has an easy access to the project specifics (Schwalbe, 2015).

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Challenges to overcome
There can be certain internal challenges that can act as a barrier to adoption of project
portfolio management (Heagney, 2016). One of the most significant challenges associated with
this project is related to the identification of the changes that is needed to be incorporated in
Anisha elderly care facility (Harrison & Lock, 2017). This challenge was addressed by
identifying the major project needs in the planning and initiation phase of the project.
Stakeholders and Project Team
The main stakeholders and the project team for this project is represented in the table
below-
Identified
Stakeholders
Type Influence Interest
Project Manager Internal Medium Medium
Project Team Internal Low Medium
Project Sponsor External High High
Anisha Elderly Care
Facility
Internal High High
Customers External High Low
Employees of the
Organization
Internal Low Medium
Table 1: Representing the Project Stakeholders

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Work Breakdown Structure
The work breakdown structure of this project is indicated in the figures below-

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Project
Initiation
Requirements gathering
Meeting the Clients
Setting up a meeting date
Meeting as per the project
needs
Understanding the
Requirements
Discussing the project
feasibility
Understaking the project
feasibility Analysis
Development of Project
Feasibility Report
Discussing the project
Issues
End of Project Initiation
Planning and Design
Planning
Analysis of the identified
requirements
Analysis of the scheduling
needs
Analysis of the estimation
method
Development of the
Schedule
Identifying the work
packages
Identifying the Time
required
Estimation of the Project
Budget
End of the Planning Phase
Project Design
Collecting the project
requirements
Preparation of project
Plan
Approval of Project Plan
Project Execution
Project Kickstart
Analysisng the
Improvements needed
Validating the Project plan
Changes Undertaken
Improvement of the
service delivery
Identifictaion of the services
that are needed to be
imporved
Taking detailed feebback
from the customers
Implementation of the
service delivery
Improvement of the
Patient Care
Collecting feedbacks from
the elderly patients
Working on the areas that
are needed to be
improvement
Managing the Risks
End of Execution phase
Monitoring and Controlling
Documenting the risk control
measures that are taken
Identifying the areas that
are needed to be monitored
Enfocring appropriate
control on the project
risks and issues ]
End of Monitoring and
control phase
Completion
Checking if all the project
requiremnets are met
Project evaluation
Payment completion
Resource release
Clinet sign Off
Project Ends
Figure 1: Representing the Work Breakdown structure of the Project Undertaken

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Project Schedule
The project schedule and the Gantt chart of the project is represented in the picture
below-
Figure 2: Representing the Schedule Gantt chart of the Project
Conclusion

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The report discusses the project updates of a project undertaken. The project aimed in
improving the healthcare services that is offered by Anisha elderly care facility. The report
discusses the challenges associated with this project and identifies the main stakeholders of the
project. In order to ensure successful project delivery, a schedule Gantt chart and work
breakdown structure of the project is prepared.

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References
Harrison, F., & Lock, D. (2017). Advanced project management: a structured approach.
Routledge.
Heagney, J. (2016). Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.