Project Management: Stages, Principles, and Issues Analysis

This project analyzes the management of a mini-project based on the Pacific Highway Project. The project explores the entire project lifecycle, including defining the project scope, objectives, and constraints. It uses a Gantt chart for activity planning and estimation, and examines the effectiveness of group management by evaluating team skills, communication, and teamwork. Project management principles such as clear goals, risk identification, and project structure are applied. The project identifies primary issues, like scope creep and budget overruns due to improper time management. Finally, the project highlights lessons learned, such as the importance of timely risk and issue identification, project audits, and scheduling project activities.

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1. Management of mini-project from beginning to end
The project is based on Pacific Highway Project. At first, the project topic is
understandable by the project team members and then it is broken down into different activities
which are allocated to team members. At first introduction of the project background is provided.
It creates of overview of the activities and project goals. It is managed by providing review of
project process by following the project’s life cycle (Walker 2015). They determine the project
scope and objectives with project constraints. The main way to manage entire project is to
estimate and plan the activities using Gantt chart. The team members critically analyze the
project management approaches and methods used in the project. All the issues are identified and
mitigated on time before it provides any negative impact on the project work.
2. Stages to define, plan, monitor, control and complete the project using
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3. Assessing effectiveness of group at managing mini-project
A group can manage the mini-project work effectively as different team members have
different project management skills and capabilities. They offer practical with academic
framework of the project processes and raised issues and problems (Verzuh 2015). They all
develop of communication and also teamwork skills to successfully complete the work on
scheduled time.

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4. Management of project using project management principles and
approaches
For successfully complete the project, some of the project management principles such as
definition phase, clear the project goals, risk identification, responsibility of project management
and project structure helps to manage the work (Mir and Pinnington 2014). The principles and
approaches of project management are applied to any level of project which falls under various
area of responsibility in entire project work.
5. Issues encounter in project
The primary issues of this mini-project are to achieve the project goals as well as
objectives. The project constraints are scope, time and budget. Sometimes, there is change in
scope statement. It is known as scope creep and it causes when the project management allows
extending the scope beyond its project objectives (Steyn 2016). Time is not properly maintained
while there is addition of extra resources to the project increases the budget. Therefore, it
becomes over budgeted.
6. Lessons learned
From this mini-project some lessons are leant such as identification of risks and issues on
time is required to mitigate it before it hampers the project work. It is required to do project audit
for encountering the challenges throughout project life cycle. Most important is leant about
scheduling the project activities.

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References
Mir, F.A. and Pinnington, A.H., 2014. Exploring the value of project management: linking
project management performance and project success. International journal of project
management, 32(2), pp.202-217.
Steyn, H., Dekker, A.H., Kuschke, B., Van Eck, B.P.S. and Visser, K., 2016. Project
management: A multi-disciplinary approach. FPM Publishing.
Verzuh, E., 2015. The fast forward MBA in project management. John Wiley & Sons.
Walker, A., 2015. Project management in construction. John Wiley & Sons.