EPM 5600 - Principles of Project Management: Fitout Project Case Study

This case study examines the fitout of a medium-rise office building in Sydney, focusing on the leadership and team environment aspects of the project. With an estimated budget of $1.2 million and a four-month timeline, the project's success hinges on design, budget, and time management. The project is currently utilizing a budget of $675,000 with varying completion stages across different floors. The report identifies the need for a new project manager with strong leadership qualities, as the existing team environment suffers from communication gaps and limited risk awareness. Recommendations include improved communication, role clarification, and fostering trust among team members. The analysis draws upon organizational behavior models to emphasize the importance of leadership traits such as truthfulness, courage, and a drive for results. The paper concludes that hiring a new project manager with specific leadership characteristics is crucial for the project's success and recommends changes to improve the work environment.

Project Title:Fitout of a medium-rise
office building in Sydney
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Introduction
 The project mainly reflects on fitout of a medium rise
office building
 The estimated budget for the project is around $1.2M
 It is assumed that that the fitout of the entire office
building will be completed within 4 months.

Introduction Contd.
 The success of the fitout project must be
determined by with the help of three
components which includes
 Design,
 Budget as well as
 Time.
Success of
Fitout project
Design
BudgetTime

Current project position
 It is identified that the project currently utilizes
budget of around $675K
 Ground Floor of the project is 75% complete
 Second floor is 25% complete.
 First floor is 25% complete.
 Top floor is 50% complete,

Reporting requirements of the project
The reporting requirements of the project
includes:
 Report Technical Specifications
 Training
 Project rules
 Deployment

Information that is needed by the new
project manager
The additional information that is important to
be sourced are:
 Information about project limitations
 About project goal
 Project risks: Informati
on for
project
manager
Project
limitation
s
Project
goals
Project
risks

Leadership behaviour on the project
 The organizational zoo model, states that:
 A leader is an individual who must have
huge number of followers
 They must have proper leadership
qualities as well as style of managing
various work processes
 Willingness to hear others advice or
perspective of thought which states

Leadership behaviour on the project
 It is found that for the recruitment of the new
project manager, it is very much necessary to
recruit based on some of the leadership behaviour
that are mainly illustrated below:
 Demonstration of truth
 Courage demonstration
 Demonstration of drive for results

Existing team environment
 The present team environment is found to be
improper
 There is communication gap between the project
managers as well as other team members of the
project.
 The risks which are mainly related to the project
are only known to the few project stakeholders

Recommendations on project team
environment
The recommendations of the project are as follows:
 Proper communication
 Clarification of roles
 Trusting team members

Conclusion
 It can be concluded from the entire project that in order to continue with the project of fitout
medium rise office building in the suburb of Sydney, a new project manager must be hired based
on some of the specific leadership behavioural characteristics.
 The project manager must have the qualities that are needed within a leader as per the Zoo
organizational behaviour.
 The paper also analyzes the present team environment in order to identify the problem so that
proper recommendation must be provided in order to make changes within the work environment
of the project.

References
 Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking project management: A structured literature
review with a critical look at the brave new world. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(2), 278-290.
 Tyssen, A. K., Wald, A., & Heidenreich, S. (2014). Leadership in the context of temporary
organizations: A study on the effects of transactional and transformational leadership on
followers’ commitment in projects. Journal of Leadership & Organizational
Studies, 21(4), 376-393.
 Walker, A. (2015). Project management in construction. John Wiley & Sons.