Detailed Project Management Plan for Levi's using IPECC Framework

This report presents a project management plan tailored for Levi's company, leveraging the IPECC framework (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Control, and Closure) to ensure project success. The introduction highlights Levi's brand history and challenges, setting the stage for a structured approach to address current issues. The report then details each phase of the IPECC framework, starting with initiation, which involves defining the project scope, deliverables, stakeholders, and business case. The planning phase focuses on developing a detailed project plan encompassing cost, risk, time, change, and quality management. The execution phase outlines the implementation of project processes, resource allocation, and task assignments. The control phase emphasizes performance measurement and progress tracking, including risk management and change control. Finally, the closure phase covers project completion, performance analysis, and final reporting. The report concludes by emphasizing the effectiveness of the IPECC framework in managing projects effectively for Levi's.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Ace Project Tool..............................................................................................................................2
Project Management Plan................................................................................................................3
Initiation.......................................................................................................................................3
Planning.......................................................................................................................................4
Execution.....................................................................................................................................5
Control.........................................................................................................................................6
Closure.........................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Levi’s is one of the most known brands of clothing. Levi’s is a classic brand which
defined the essence of word ‘brand’. Levi’s was declared as ultimate brand for clothing as well
as staple to wardrobe all over the world in 2002 by Esquire magazine of UK. Secret behind
enduring success and magic of Levi’s is the ability in symbolizing both uniqueness and ubiquity
simultaneously. Levi’s is both fashion as well as anti-fashion. In spite of continued ubiquity,
brand of Levi had rocky ride recently (Farris, Shames and Mitchell 2017). There were several
issues for Levi’s company. For fully understanding them, this is important in appreciating
branding strategy of the organization. However, every issue for Levi’s was not in their
marketing. All Levi’s company could do was attempt and preserve integrity of their brand.
Levi’s company engaged in battle with supermarket of Tesco.
The aim of this paper is providing management plan for Levi’s company for making their
project successful. IPECC’s five stages would be used in this management plan for making this
project of Levi’s company successful one.
Ace Project Tool
Ace Project Tool could be efficient to manage project, timesheet ad task of Levi’s
company. This tool would allow in assigning reviews as well as assign the worker with the
deadlines for completing this project of Levi’s within time. This tool would also provide best
support for the customers of Levi’s company (Verma 2017). Also the price of this management
tool is reasonable, which would be beneficial for Levi’s company.

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Project Management Plan
At start of Levi’s project, amount of work as well as planning could seem overwhelming.
Dividing efforts of project management into phases could help in giving the efforts structure as
well as simplify these into series of manageable and logical steps (Su and Tong 2016). There
would be five phases for this project of Levi’s: initiation, planning execution, control and
closure.
Initiation
It is phase where this project of Levi’s would begin. This would provide overview of this
project as well as strategies which are needed for attaining the required outputs. This is phase
where business value and feasibility of this project of Levi’s would be determined. In initial
stage, this is crucial in understanding this project’s feasibility. It should be observed that if this
project would be viable from legal, operational, technical and economic aspects as well as
identifying the problems of this project would help in analyzing if these issues could be solved
by using proper solutions (Kang and Jin 2015). In this phase, scope of this project would be
identified which would involve defining depth, breadth and length of this project. It is also
crucial in outlining functions, tasks, services, features and deadlines. After identifying scope of
Levi’s project, deliverables of this project would be outlined. Deliverables of this project consist
of defining services or project that is required. It would be also essential to have detailed
identification of this project’s stakeholders. This is better in having meetings with the experts
and team members in identifying stakeholders of this project (Samuel et l. 2018). Relevant
information’s documentation on the stakeholder of this project is needed. Before developing
business care, essential pillars for this project like scope, stakeholders’ identification and
feasibility should be checked to make sure that they are in right place. Finally, this project’s

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charter would be created which would demonstrate in-charge of this project, scope of this project
as well as crucial success factors for this project of Levi’s. Business case would justify
requirements of this project as well as includes estimate of financial benefits of this project of
Levi’s.
Planning
All planning for this Levi’s project would be done in this phase. By defining the
objectives of this project, this is time for developing plan for this project of Levi’s, which should
be followed by everyone. Set of the plane would be set in the planning phase that would help in
guiding the team through implementation phase as well as closing phase of this Levi’s project.
Program which would be created in this point would help surely in managing cost, risk, time,
changes and quality (Anderson 2015). Project plan which would be developed must consist of
every crucial details that are related to objectives and goals of this project and must detail also
how this could be achieved. This is most complicated phase where operational requirements,
functional requirements and design limitations would be taken care of. Information of several
resource levels would be provided by resource plan which would be required for accomplishing
the project. Materials and labor would be specified by plan that would be well-documented for
completing this project of Levi’s. The resources which would be used must have relevant
expertise of project management (Jost and Süsser 2019). Financial plan would be framed which
would help in setting budget of this Levi’s project and would help in delivering the deliverables
of this project. Final lists of budget plan would expense on labor, equipment and material.
Creating budget plan would help project manager and team of this Levi’s project in monitoring
as well as controlling costs throughout life cycle of this project. Resources would be gathered
which is essential part in this phase as this would help in monitoring this Levi’s project’s quality

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level. This would be not enough in assembling balanced team for external as well as internal
resources. The resources such as software solutions, money, workplace and equipment must be
given for completing this Levi’s project (SCOTT and STEWARD 2018). Risk plan for this
project would help in identifying the risks of this project and would for mitigating those risks.
After controlling the threat, this would be possible in delivering this Levi’s project within time.
Execution
It is phase where the processes related to this project would be implemented, the
resources would be allocated and the tasks would be assigned. This phase would involve
building deliverables as well as satisfy the requirements of the customers. Team leaders and
project manager of this project would accomplish task by allocation of resource. Team involved
in this Levi’s project would begin in creating the deliverables of this project as well as seek in
achieving the objectives and goals of this project (Ciurana 2015). This phase would determine if
this project of Levi’s would be successful or not. Success of this Levi’s project would depend
mainly on execution phase of this project. Final deliverables would take shape during this phase
of the project. During execution phase of this project of Levi’s, this would be crucial in getting
updates of this project as this would provide required information as well as would identify the
issues. Project manager should check time for ensuring that this project of Levi’s would be
completed s per schedule (Sholarin and Awange 2015). Project manager must ensure that every
expense would be accounted for. Change management is something which could change in
specifications of stakeholders of this project. Project manager might change plans for this Levi’s
project if necessary. During this phase, The issues must be tracked carefully so that project
manager would be aware of the issues which could come up while execution. This phase heavily

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depends on planning phase (Xue, Baron and Esteban 2017). Efforts and work of team during
execution phase would be derived from project plan.
Control
This phase is about measuring performance of this project of Levi’s as well as for
tracking the progress of this project. This would be implemented during execution phase. Major
goal for the phase would be checking if everything would be aligned with plan of this project.
This is responsibility of project manager in making the required adjustments which are related to
allocation of resources as well as make sure that all are on track (Heldman 2018). For aiding this,
project manager might conduct review meetings as well as get regular reports of the
performance. Monitoring activity of this project after execution phase would allow project
manager in taking corrective actions. Considering quality of the work would help also in making
requirement improvements. Budget must be monitored which would help in avoiding
unnecessary expenses of resources. Project control takes place with execution of this project.
This phase would involve monitoring this project for the risks as well as keeping the risks to
minimum (Varajão, Colomo-Palacios and Silva 2017). This would involve keeping the changes
within the project to minimum, This phase gets lumped mistakenly with execution functions of
this project. During the phase, the project manager might find that given problem or risk would
force them in revisiting the planning phase of this project. It is as few issues or risks which could
come up might make this Levi’s project unable in reaching its completion phase.
Closure
This phase represents this project’s final phase, During this phase, final project would be
ready for being delivery. Major focus for project manager should be delivery of the project. In
the stage, every activity that would be related to this project of Levi’s would be wrapped up

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(Bayona, Saboya and Bustamante 2018). Upon completion of this project as well as timely
delivery, this is project manager’s role in highlighting the strengths, listing takeaways of this
project, identifying ambiguities as well as suggests how these could be rectified. Taking time for
recognizing strengths as well as the weaknesses would help in handling projects with much more
dedication as well as build credibility of project manager. This phase would analyze the
performance of this Levi’s project. This phase would deal with analyzing if project goals would
be met (Huda 2018). If this project could be accomplished in agreed time and budget as well as
is capable to address issue that it would set out in resolving, then this project would be declared
successful. Next stage for this phase is analyzing performance of the teams for this project. This
phase would consider performance of teams members of this Levi’s project. By performing
quality check with parameters such as timelines and quality of the work would provide picture of
performance of the team.
It is most essential as this would involve this project’s systematic presentation from
ideation stage for completion. Project document having no loose ends would be handed to
stakeholders or clients after closure phase. Closure report of this project would be written in this
phase (Simonette, Magalhães and Spina 2016). The report would include information like sign
off of the project, cost management, strategies of schedule management and releasing of staff.
Resources would be redistributed which would be assigned for this project.
Conclusion
Levi’s company is, without any doubt, classic brand. This is one of best company of
wardrobe products. Though, in spite of continued ubiquity, Levi’s faced some issues.
Competition was seen between Levi’s and supermarket of Tesco. This paper provided

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management plan for Levi’s company for making their project successful. IPECC’s five stages
were used in this management plan for making this project of Levi’s company successful one.

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