FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar: A Lean Project Management Approach

This case study analyzes the application of lean project management principles to the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. It discusses the importance of stakeholder management using PMBOK, identifying critical stakeholders, and implementing lean methodologies such as Prince2, Agile practices, and DMAIC. The report highlights the processes involved in stakeholder identification, planning, and engagement, emphasizing effective communication and risk management. The goal is to minimize waste, optimize resources, and ensure the successful execution of the World Cup event, providing a comprehensive understanding of how lean principles can be applied to large-scale sporting events.

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Lean Project
(FIFA 2022 World Cup football tournament to be held in Qatar)
Name of the Student
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Table of Contents
1.Introduction.......................................................................................................................2
2.Discussion.........................................................................................................................2
2.1. PMBOK for Stakeholder management of FIFA World Cup....................................2
2.2. Critical Stakeholder for the event.............................................................................7
2.3Ways for implementing lean project...........................................................................8
2.4 Identifying process.....................................................................................................8
2.4.1. Prince 2..............................................................................................................9
2.4.2. Organizational Project Management.................................................................9
2.4.3. Agile Practices...................................................................................................9
2.4.4. DMAIC Methodology.....................................................................................10
3. Conclusion.....................................................................................................................11
4. References......................................................................................................................12

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1.Introduction
The coming pages of the report mainly deal with proper design and arrangement of FIFA
World Cup 2022 in Qatar. The tournament will begin on 21 November and will end by 18
December which is the national day of Qatar. It will merely highlight a change in the schedule
for this Premium League and Europe (Sofotasiou, Hughes and Calautit 2015). It also emphasizes
some other leagues which are expected to be swing by November. There is only one solution for
this European league which is all about bringing in the winter break. It is expected that Qatar
World Cup will cross around 28 days. Qatar is three hours of United Kingdom which can kick
off certain number of times. It is favorable for large number of people who are watching the
television. Organizer of this FIFA World Cup tournament is taking into account of FAN ID
which is used in Russia (Al-Emadi et al. 2017). It is mainly needed for providing Visa-Free entry
into this particular country. There are more than 80 countries who can take advantage of Visa-
Free entry.
In the coming pages of the report, an idea has been provided with respect PMBOK which
is needed for stakeholder management. After that critical stakeholder of this event has been
discussed in details. After that certain way has been discussed which can be used for
implementing lean project management. An identification and elaboration have been discussed
with respect to PMBOK, Prince2, Agile Practices and Lean Six Sigma has been provided.
2.Discussion
2.1. PMBOK for Stakeholder management of FIFA World Cup

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Project Management can be defined as rapid growth and spreading practices. It is
globally recognized and strategic competency which is career path and subject for training
(Matheson, Schwab and Koval 2018). The framework of PMBOK comes up five groups, ten
knowledge and 47 project management process. The world cup tournament generally needs
PMBOK methodology for managing the event. Stakeholder management is used for identifying
people, groups along with organization. This particular element can be easily impacted by this
project along with same instance it can affect the project in negative and positive way
(Kaplanidou et al. 2016). There is large number of process involved in this stakeholder
management process that is identification of stakeholder, stakeholder management plan, control
for stakeholder engagement. Stakeholder management method is all about managing the
expectation of stakeholders which can be influenced through the lifecycle of this tournament. It
can be stated as a plan which is needed for interacting with stakeholders in effective way with
the stakeholders of this tournament in much effective way. The main notion of project manager
is all about understanding the plan along with understanding their impact of contribution of
stakeholders of World Cup tournament (Brannagan and Rookwood 2016). Apart from this, it
emphasizes managing the expectation of stakeholders along with achieving the goal of this FIFA
World Cup tournament.
Project Stakeholder Management
Identifying the Stakeholder Focusing on
Stakeholders
engagement
Managing
Stakeholder
engagement
Monitoring stakeholder

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1. Inputs
1.1. Project Details
1.2. Necessary Documents
1.3. Agreement
1.4. Environmental factors
1.5. Organizing Project
assets
2. Tools and Techniques
2.1. Judgement
2.2. Data analysis
2.3. Representing data
2.4. Meetings
3. Outputs
3.1. Stakeholder register
3.2. Request for change
3.3. Update of project
documents.
1. Inputs
1.1. Project details.
1.2. Organization
process
1.3. Agreement
1.4. Project
management plan
2. Tools and
techniques
2.1. Proper judgment
2.2. Data gathering
2.3. Representing of
data
2.4. Meeting
3. Output
3.1. Plan for
stakeholder engagement.
1. Inputs
1.1. Project
Documents
1.2. Process assets
for organization
1.3. Enterprise
environmental
factors.
2. Tools and
Techniques
2.1. Required
Judgement
2.2 Collecting data
2.3 Representing of
collected data
2.4 Meeting on
regular interval
3.Output
3.1. Making
changes with
respect to request
3.2 Update with
respect to
1. Input
1.1 Plan for project
management
1.2. Data for work
performance
1.3 Assets for organizing
certain number of process.
1.4. Assets for
organization process
2. Tools and techniques
2.1 Proper analysis of data
2.2 Representation of data
2.3 Proper skills for
communication
3. Output
3.1 All the necessary
information with respect
to work performance
3.2 Making certain

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stakeholder plan
3.3 Update of
documents related
to project
management
number of changes in the
request
3.3 Updates with respect
to project documents.
Table 1: Stakeholder management of FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar
(Source: Created by Author)
In order to complete the stakeholder management process in FIFA World Cup 2022 in
Qatar, the stakeholders should implement a large number of steps like
 Identifying a list of stakeholders of FIFA tournament
 Understanding different kind of factors like interest and capability for the
stakeholders of FIFA WorldCup.
 Having an understanding with respect to stakeholders of FIFA 2022 World Cup.
 Coming up professional project management techniques for the stakeholders of
FIFA World Cup (Kaplanidou et al. 2016).
 There should be continuously developed with the stakeholders with committee of
FIFA World Cup 2022.
Identifying various stakeholders: The first stage of this Project stakeholders is all about
having proper kind of understanding with respect to this FIFA 2022 World Cup Tournament. All
the people of this organization can be easily affected by project (Matzarakis and Fröhlich 2015).

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It merely highlights the positive kind of influence for understanding the need of project managers
and reducing the negative side of project managers. It emphasizes on implementation of
strategies in better way for this FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar. The importance of
stakeholders is needed for giving priority the project managers of this event (Kaplanidou et al.
2016). It is mainly done by having proper kind of understanding with respect to limitation of this
project manager and stakeholders of this event in Qatar. Stakeholder identification of this event
comes up with mainly three kind of tools that is input, tool and lastly output. There is large
number of factors associated with proper management of stakeholders like project charter and
organizational process assets (Millward 2017). It merely comes up with some kind of tools and
techniques which is needed for stakeholder design like stakeholders like judgment and expertise.
Proper plan for Stakeholder management: In this particular stage various kind of
stakeholders are assigned to understanding various roles and responsibilities. It is mainly needed
for having proper kind of understanding with respect to roles and responsibilities in the given
time and budget of this World Cup event (Adams 2015). There is large number of different kind
of techniques which are used for managing various kind stakeholders of World Cup event. It is
needed for gaining positive kind influence for various kind of stakeholders. It is considered to be
an important factor for getting equal number of opportunities. Stakeholder register helps in
defining various kind of roles and responsibilities which is inclusive of classification and
designation. The second thing which is taken into account that project managers and team
members for having an understanding with respect to FIFA World Cup 2022 (Todd and Jewell
2016). Stakeholder can easily make use of open communication which is needed for kind of
communication that is upward and downward. It needed for attracting team members from team
members from different parts of the project. It can easily provide huge amount of benefits to the

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project manager. With the help of open communication model, various stakeholders of this event
can easily share their ideas and creativity (Watanabe, Wicker and Yan 2017). It is mainly needed
for associating with the project team members.
Managing stakeholder engagement: By the proper implementation of the given strategy
for managing the given stakeholders, there is large number of things which are taken into
consideration like team members and managers of this World Cup event (Houssein et al. 2016).
The project head of this event needs to implement certain number of approaches which is needed
for assigning the stakeholders with certain number of roles and responsibilities. There is large
number of tools used by project managers like tools for communication, interpersonal skills
which are needed by project managers for various kind of updates of this World Cup event.
Apart from this, there is certain number of tools used like updating plan of project management
and making certain number of requests(Tomanek and Juricek 2015). Apart from this, there is
certain number of factors which are included in it like rewarding, conflict and understanding the
skills. There is certain number of skills which will help the project managers of FIFA World Cup
Tournament for motivating the stakeholders. It will ultimately help the stakeholders in
understanding the project objectives and notion of FIFA World Cup 2022.
Engaging a proper control of Stakeholders: A proper control over the stakeholder
engagement can be stated as a way of keeping a track of relationship between various
stakeholders of FIFA World Cup 2022. It is mainly done by adjusting certain number of
strategies for this tournament. Any kind of input to the present world Cup approach can help in
overcoming large number of problems like data for work performance and documents for project
(Mousaei and Gandomani 2018). There is large number of tools and techniques which is needed
for controlling the present stakeholders of the tournament. The overall output mainly helps in

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generating work performance like change request, updating project plan and updates with respect
to organizational project. Updates in project mainly help in understanding large number of
factors like cost, communication, quality management along with risk and procurement
management.
2.2. Critical Stakeholder for the event
The present stakeholder committee is mainly responsible for having a proper kind of
understanding which will help in having a proper kind of understanding football tournament. It is
mainly responsible for managing the relationship for different domains like leagues and FIFA
(Hedeman and Seegers 2018). For proper kind design and implementation of this Football
tournament expected to be held in the year 2022 in Qatar. There are large number of stakeholders
associated with tournament like
 Chairman for the committee for World Cup 2022.
 Members for this committee
 Both kind of chairperson for this deputy.
2.3Ways for implementing lean project
Project management practices help in understanding the present project which
emphasizes lean based principles (Coppola, D'Ambrogio and Gianni 2016). There is large
number of factors associated for the project managers which emphasizes on implementation of
project in more successful way. There are certain number of principles which are followed for
having an understanding with respect to project success like
 Viewpoint of Consumers.

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 Minimizing large number of associated waste.
The lean project based principles can be easily implemented in this event of football
World Cup tournament. It is mainly used for emphasizing minimum rate, equipment and
required materials (Axinte, Petrică and Barbu 2017). It focuses on some of the addition kind of
cost which can easily damage the overall success of this World Cup event. There are mainly five
methods which can be used for eliminating the waste from this World Cup event.
2.4 Identifying process
2.4.1. Prince 2
The whole tournament of FIFA World Cup 2022 can be easily managed. Project manager
of this event requires Prince2 for establishing communication within the goals of this event. The
project manager of World Cup 2022 needs to have a proper understanding with respect to
providing communication of the project goals (Ansar et al. 2018). Prince2 can be expanded as
Project in Control environment which is needed for having a proper kind of understanding to
project management methodologies for this tournament. The biggest benefit of using this
particular methodology in this World Cup tournament is separating the given into various parts
(Sharma, Gupta and Saini 2018). If the team members implement this methodology, then
communication can be easily improved among the stakeholders of this event. Prince2 mainly
emphasizes on overall improvement of this FIFA World Cup tournament 2022.
2.4.2. Organizational Project Management
The project manager of FIFA World Cup 2022 can easily implement organization project
management which will help in gaining benefits and overall improvement. OPM emphasizes on
certain number of strategies which is needed for aligning with overall goals and notion for this

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event (Sin et al. 2015). With the help of proper methodology, certain number of option can be
provided for this World Cup tournament. It emphasizes on certain number of resources which
emphasizes on certain number of important points. OPM methodology helps in proper kind of
integration of large number of aspects like process and resources which can be used in FIFA
World Cup tournament.
2.4.3. Agile Practices
Agile methodology is considered to be an effective kind of methodology which is
required for creating software in much effective way (Kaplanidou et al. 2016). This particular
methodology requires time around 1 to 4 weeks which is needed for software development. FIFA
World Cup can easily emphasize on new kind of agile development which is provided in much
easy way (Millward 2017). Agile is a well-known methodology which comes up with project
managers of this FIFA World Cup event. It mainly helps in delivering team to the viewers of this
event.
2.4.4. DMAIC Methodology
DMAIC is an acronym of Define, Measure, Control, Measure and lastly improvement. It
is powerful equipment which is needed for leading World Cup 2022 for getting much better
performance (Adams 2015). It ultimately helps in lining the overall performance along with
understanding the notion of this FIFA World Cup 2022 event.
Defining: In this particular stage, an outline of this FIFA World Cup 2022 is provided.
Stakeholders of FIFA World 2022 needs to focus on certain aspects of these tournaments.
Measuring: In this stage, making a proper collection of event can be considered to be
main aim of this World Cup 2022 event.

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Analyzing: In this particular step, the main focus is all about making a proper
understanding with main needs for arranging the event (Houssein et al. 2016).
Improving: The main aim of this factor is all about having an understanding with respect
to understanding with this FIFA World Cup 2022 event.
Control: This is last stage of this methodology which is required for proper development
of metrics (Watanabe, Wicker and Yan 2017). It mainly highlights the basic kind of needs for
keeping a proper track of documents of this event. It will ultimately result in overall success of
this FIFA World Cup tournament.
Fig 1: DMAIC Five Steps
(Source: Todd and Jewell 2016)