Project Management Application: Improving Elderly Care Delivery System

This project outlines a plan to enhance the healthcare delivery system at Anisha Elderly Care, focusing on streamlining processes to improve service for elderly residents. The project aims to reduce both the budget and timeline initially proposed, incorporating a Waterfall project management methodology. Key challenges involve optimizing processes within the existing structure of Anisha Elderly Care to achieve efficiencies. The project team includes a range of stakeholders, such as the Project Manager, Procurement Manager, Financial Manager, medical staff, and the CEO and Director of Anisha. A detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and project schedule are provided, covering initiation, planning, design, execution, and closing phases, with specific tasks, durations, and dependencies outlined to ensure successful project completion.

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Update on Service project Description
The service project that has been selected for this project is delivery system of healthcare
center. The service project describes the way to streamline the processes that are involved in an
organization so that people can get better healthcare service. The budget of the project is to be
altered that is the budget of the project is reduced. The project time schedule that was mentioned
in the service description was six months and that is also to be reduced. Waterfall project
management methodology is to be included the project for carrying out the project successfully.
Update on information of the organization where the service project will be
implemented
The service project that was planned is to be implemented in the Anisha Elderly Care
facility which provides service to the old people and provides them with healthcare facilities and
residential facilities. As per the service project, there is no change in the organization. The
Anisha Elderly Care includes nurses as well as physician who are responsible to look after the
old people in the old age home.
Challenges faced
The challenges that is to be overcome while delivering the portfolio project on time is
lessening the cost and time of the project that was undertaken in the service plan. As the project
is to improve the services of the Anisha Elderly care, the processes involved should be lessened
so that it takes less time and can be completed with less budget.
Stakeholders Included
Project stakeholders that are included in the project team are:

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 Project Manager
 Procurement Manager
 Financial Manager
 Staffs
 Nurses
 Physicians
 Customers
 CEO of Anisha
 Director of Anisha
Work Breakdown Structure
Project Schedule
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Anisha Oldage Project 30 days Mon 4/02/19 Fri 15/03/19

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Initiation Phase 5 days Mon 4/02/19 Fri 8/02/19
Meeting Phase 1 day Mon 4/02/19 Mon 4/02/19
Meeting with CEO of
Anisha
0.5 days Mon 4/02/19 Mon 4/02/19
Documenting the
meeting
0.5 days Mon 4/02/19 Mon 4/02/19 3
Requirement Gathering 3 days Tue 5/02/19 Thu 7/02/19
Analyzing the
Requirement
2 days Tue 5/02/19 Wed 6/02/19 4
Documenting the
Requirement
1 day Thu 7/02/19 Thu 7/02/19 6
Finalizing the
Requirement
0 days Thu 7/02/19 Thu 7/02/19 6,7
Finalizing the Project 1 day Thu 7/02/19 Fri 8/02/19
Final Document 1 day Fri 8/02/19 Fri 8/02/19 8
Project Signing In 0 days Thu 7/02/19 Thu 7/02/19 6,7,8
Planning and Design Phase 11 days Mon 11/02/19 Mon 25/02/19
Planning the project 2 days Mon 11/02/19 Tue 12/02/19
Gathering Previous 2 days Mon 11/02/19 Tue 12/02/19 10

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Studies
Meeting with Contractors 0 days Tue 12/02/19 Tue 12/02/19 11,14
Design Phase 9 days Wed 13/02/19 Mon 25/02/19
Designing the plan 4 days Wed 13/02/19 Mon 18/02/19 15
Documenting the plan 2 days Tue 19/02/19 Wed 20/02/19 17
Dividing the Plan within
Contractors
2 days Thu 21/02/19 Fri 22/02/19 17,18
Contractor Sign In 1 day Mon 25/02/19 Mon 25/02/19 19
Execution Phase 6 days Tue 26/02/19 Tue 5/03/19
Project Management
Techniques
4 days Tue 26/02/19 Fri 1/03/19
Deciding Techniques of
PM with Contractors
2 days Tue 26/02/19 Wed 27/02/19 20
Makes advance Payment 2 days Thu 28/02/19 Fri 1/03/19 23
Planning Constraints of
PM
2 days Mon 4/03/19 Tue 5/03/19
Planning time, and cost
of the project
1 day Mon 4/03/19 Mon 4/03/19 24
Scheduling time and cost 1 day Tue 5/03/19 Tue 5/03/19 24,26

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Monitoring and
Controlling Phase
4 days Wed 6/03/19 Mon 11/03/19
Monitoring Phase 2 days Wed 6/03/19 Thu 7/03/19
Reviewing work
schedule
2 days Wed 6/03/19 Thu 7/03/19 27
Meeting with contractors 0 days Thu 7/03/19 Thu 7/03/19 30
Controlling phase 2 days Fri 8/03/19 Mon 11/03/19
Controlling the time and
budget planned
2 days Fri 8/03/19 Mon 11/03/19 31
Project Closing Phase 4 days Tue 12/03/19 Fri 15/03/19
Review phase 1 day Tue 12/03/19 Tue 12/03/19
Review all the phase
completed
1 day Tue 12/03/19 Tue 12/03/19 19,33
Project Sign off 3 days Wed 13/03/19 Fri 15/03/19
Signing off the
contractors
2 days Wed 13/03/19 Thu 14/03/19 36
Preparing final document 1 day Fri 15/03/19 Fri 15/03/19 38
Signing off with CEO 0 days Fri 15/03/19 Fri 15/03/19 39

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Network Diagram

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