ABC Engineering Project Management Service and Development Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of project management practices at ABC Engineering, focusing on three distinct projects: the design and implementation of a solar panel highway in New South Wales, the development of a major electricity substation in a remote location near Perth, and the implementation of an Information System within ABC Engineering. The report delves into key characteristics of each project, including their alignment with organizational strategic direction, estimated costs and durations, expected quality of deliverables, stakeholder identification, risk assessment, and environmental and societal impacts. Furthermore, the analysis reviews each project's alignment with project and program management principles, including the project charter, risk management, and communication strategies. The report highlights the complexities, challenges, and successes of each project, offering insights into effective project management practices and areas for improvement. The document is contributed by a student to be published on the website Desklib. Desklib is a platform which provides all the necessary AI based study tools for students.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT
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Table of Contents
Question 1 (a)..................................................................................................................................2
Analysis of Performance of the Selected Projects...........................................................................2
1. Nominate three projects for the discussion..................................................................................2
2. Defining key characteristics of each nominated project..............................................................2
3. Project review with respect to their alignment with project and program management...........11
4. Developing project plan to achieve project objectives..............................................................21
Question B:....................................................................................................................................24
Write a report to the board of director...........................................................................................24
Question 2......................................................................................................................................27
Introduction....................................................................................................................................27
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................34
References......................................................................................................................................35

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Question 1 (a)
Analysis of Performance of the Selected Projects
1. Nominate three projects for the discussion
This paper demonstrates the roles and different activities important to be followed by the
project manager and respective project team members to meet primary project objectives and
goals. The paper focuses and analyses the performances of 3 different projects those are
nominated.
The nominated organization that operates the 3 above mentioned engineering projects is
“ABC Engineering Project Management Service and Development Company”. The 3
engineering projects that are nominated here for further discussion are:
Project A: planning, design and implementation of a solar panel highway in New South Wales.
Project B: Development of a major electricity substation in a remote location near Perth
Project C: Implementation of an Information System in ABC Engineering Project Management
Service and Development Company
2. Defining key characteristics of each nominated project
Project A: planning, design and implementation of a solar panel highway in New South Wales.
Fit with current organizational strategic direction: “ABC Engineering Project
Management Service and Development Company”, operates different engineering projects in

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Australia. The world is now highly focused on saving non renewable resources rather they are
trying to use different renewable resources to develop and implement different projects. In order
to bringing down the electricity expense, the local government of Australia, New South Wales
has decided to design and develop a solar panel highway in a rural location.
The location chosen for the design and development of the solar roadway is an
environmentally sensitive area which is contiguous to the new estate of New South Wales. In
addition to this the location chosen for the construction is ranges from 2000 to 10000 sq meter.
The resident who are taking pride in the natural environment and requires a peaceful living
ambiance will be the neighbours of the roadway. It will give peace, noise free and pollution free
environment to the locals as large and heavy weighted four wheelers are not allowed drive over
this road.
Estimated cost: From analysis of the technical and non technical requirements of the
project it is effectively identified that the total cost that would be required for the successful
accomplishment of the project is $100 Million.
Estimated duration: It is determined that the project manager leader and the team
members have to complex the project in 3 years without delay to avoid overrunning budget risks.
Starting from the formal planning upto the completion of the project must not take more than 3
years. Though, there is other less controversial option present for the project. The nearby
residential have requested to change the route of the new roadway hence there will be a delay of
12 months or 1 year in project implementation. As a whole it can be said that it will take
approximately 4 years for the successful completion of the solar panel highway development
project.

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Expected project delivery quality: It is predicted that if all success criteria and project
development plans are properly followed by the project team associates and stakeholders then
the project will deliver the service according to the primary objectives.
Current expenses, proportion complete and quality benchmark achieved: The
current expense of the project is estimated to be $95 Million and 50% of the project or half of the
project is completed. Till date the roadway construction is done by installation of the
photovoltaic cells. The project is running as per the developed plan. In more details, the base
layer of the highway is completed and the optical layer of the highway is half completed.
Key stakeholders: In order to implement the solar panel roadway project in Australia
they key stakeholders who are assigned include project manager, finance manager, electrical
engineer, civil engineer, resource manager, project contractors, sponsors, sub contractors and
labors.
Main risks: The main risks that may interrupt the project success and project progress
are construction and environmental risk. Due to environmental factors if the solar pane and the
photovoltaic cells get damaged then the project will fail to meet the expected objectives.
Therefore the project manager and project team members are required to out effective focus
during the installation of optical layer.
Impact on environment and society (short-term and long-term)
The short term and long term impact of the solar panel roadway project on society and
environment are as follows:
Short term impact

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 It can successfully reduce the rate of pollution
 It increases the use of renewable resources
Long term impact
 It can reduce overall cost and expense of project
 It helps to create an eco friendly ambiance
 It utilizes the renewable resources and reduces the use of non renewable resource
Complexity
The design of the project itself is little much complex. The steps those are to be
sequentially followed for the accomplishment of the project are design of the base layer, optical
layer, and transparent layer. The electrical engineer and the civil engineer assigned to the project
are necessary to have enough ability, experience and information so that they can work
according to the project objectives. If any one of the layers are not constructed efficiently then,
the entire project will be a failure.
Other factors (for example, human resource, communications and procurement)
The human resources who are contributing the project progress include project manager,
civil engineer, resource manager, labours, finance manager, operation manager and electrical
engineer.
While conducting the project the project manager requires maintaining open
communication. The open communication approach gives an independent and common
communication platform to the project team members where each of the development group
members can successfully share their ideas and thoughts to the rest of the project team

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associates. As this project will take upto 4 years for accomplishment therefore always face to
face communication is not possible therefore the other channel of communication that will be
used for making interaction include conference, email, video conference etc.
The procurement factors needed for the completion of the solar panel roadway include:
 Capacity of making the solar modules
 Awareness regarding timeline and estimated budget or cost
 Collateral savings and payback run with the solar project
Project integration factors
 There are some factors that may impact the project are:
 Availability of solar radiation in the selected location for roadway construction
 The elevation and orientation of the photovoltaic array
 The power rating capabilities of the arrays
 The total energy conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic modules used
 Design of the complete system
 The grid reliability and operation
 Thickness of the cables
 Variation of the module efficiency with changing temperature
 Accumulation of dirt and smog
Project B: Development of a major electricity substation in a remote location near Perth
Fit with current organizational strategic direction

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It has been analyzed that the project is not in shape with present organizational strategic
direction because the location chosen to install and develop the electric substation in Perth is
remote where suppliers are failing to deliver the equipments and other needful products.
Estimated cost: The total cost estimated for the project is $10 Millions
Estimated duration: 2 years
Expected quality of deliverables:
It is expected that the project will deliver quality services to the people living in the
remote location of Perth.
Current expenses, percentage complete, quality benchmark achieved: the project is
completed approximately by 40% within the expense of $0.75. In addition to this the project
benchmark or standard quality is also reached.
Key stakeholders
 Project manager
 Finance manager
 Operation head
 Electronics engineer
 Electrical engineer
 Labours
Main risks
 Logistic risk

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Complexity
The location of the substation is a remote one in Perth and the equipments considered for the
project are supplied by international market suppliers. Complexity was occurring associated to
logistics or material and equipments supply.
Other factors (for example, human resource, communications, procurement)
The project associates must open communication while interacting and the procurement factors
are:
 Line loss
 Transmission rate
 Transmission upgrades
Project integration factors
 Digital device
 Digital measurements
 Process bus
Project C: Implementation of an Information System in ABC Engineering Project Management
Service and Development Company
Fit with current organizational strategic direction: “ABC Engineering Project
Management Service and Development Company” has taken the fairly smaller but complex new
project management information system development project. The project includes a numbers of
inter connected sub systems together. Each of the sub systems is dependent on each other but the
project manager has failed to give the project a proper direction of streamline. If the project

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management process is developed then the company would successfully save Millions of dollars.
In addition to this, they will be able to complete projects with better control and within estimated
budget as well. The decision making differences will also gets reduced with this success.
Estimated cost: $3 Million is net project budget that has been estimated for the
successful implementation of the project.
Estimated duration: With analysis of the project details it is determined that the project
must be accomplished within 250 days.
Current spending, percentage complete, quality benchmark achieved
35% of the project activities are completed and from the complete budget approximately
$1.2 Million is till date spends. Though, the project is not directed towards the success line due
to decision making difference between the managerial team and development working team
members.
Key stakeholders
 Project manager
 Sponsors
 System developer
 Tester
 Application programmer
 Finance manager
 Coder
Main risks

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The main risk that has been identified is lack of communication in other words decision
making differences between the project staffs and organizational heads.
Impact on the environment and society – short term and long term
Short term impact
 Privacy needs to be updated with changing time to protect information
 High level business level competition
Long term impact
 Improves the entire business process
 Create new startups
 Increase market efficiency
 Allow the service providers and customer to keep in touch
 This is cost effective and helps to keep users connected anywhere
Complexity
The usability and maintenance of the system is little complex because only
implementation of the system is not the ultimate success rather information are needed to keep
secured as well. The project team associates must know how to protect data from cyber attacks
and hackers. If proper security approaches are not adopted then, company will face major
functional and operational challenges
Other factors (for example, human resource, communications, procurement)

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The human resources allocated to the project should have enough technical knowledge.
While working for the project each member’s should use open communication. In addition to
this, the procurement factors those are to be maintained for the project success includes political
factors, socio cultural environment and financial factors.
Project integration factors
 Identification of project goals and objectives
 Planning for business and information system
 Determination of alternatives with operational plan
3. Project review with respect to their alignment with project and program
management
For project A
Project charter
Project name: Design and development of solar panel roadway in New South Wales
Time: 4
years
Budget: $100
Million
Scope: To design and develop a solar roadway followed by
designing three layers sequentially in terms of:
 Base layer
 Optical layer
 Transparent layer