Detailed Project Management Plan: Dream Home Construction Project

This project management plan details the construction of a dream home in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with a budget of $300,000 and a 14-month timeline. It encompasses project background, scope, a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), a WBS dictionary, a Gantt chart, a Critical Path Method (CPM) network diagram, and comprehensive risk and quality management plans. The plan also includes a communication management strategy, a human resource management plan, a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), and a project budget. The project emphasizes green building practices and renewable resources. The document also highlights the importance of effective communication, resource allocation, and schedule management. The plan also includes a risk assessment, quality standards, and a communication management plan to ensure project success.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLANNING
Project Management Planning Assignment
Name of the University:
Course name:
Project name: Dream Home construction Project plan
The date submitted:

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Table of Contents
Project Background.........................................................................................................................2
Project Scope...................................................................................................................................3
Work Breakdown Structure.............................................................................................................4
WBS dictionary...............................................................................................................................6
Project Gantt chart...........................................................................................................................7
Critical Path Network Diagram.....................................................................................................10
Risk management plan...................................................................................................................10
Quality management plan..............................................................................................................13
Communication management plan................................................................................................16
Human Resource management plan..............................................................................................20
RAM..........................................................................................................................................21
Project Budget...............................................................................................................................22
References......................................................................................................................................28

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Project Background
Stagnant wages as well as inflating range of home prices are these days becoming a
major issue in Canada. In other words the affordability for homes is becoming unattainable day
by day. However, the rate of population in industrial area are rapidly increasing and thus people
with high income in Canada are looking for constructing dream home in a dream riverfront
location. The dream home that is planned to construct in this paper is located in Windsor city,
Ontario, Canada. The land price of Windsor city, Ontario, Canada is these days running low and
thus, the owners has planned to construct the home.
Before initiating the project a detail project scope, WBS, Gantt chart, network diagram
using CPM, risk management plan, quality management plan, communication management,
human resource management and project budget management plan are elaborated in this paper.
In order to begin the dream home construction project the owner established a contract with a
building contractor. It is determined that, the builder will share a project status report
periodically to the other project team associates. Real estate agent will help the owner to select
the location. Once the paper works, government permission and other final documents are clearly
done, the construction work will be initiated.
Project Scope
The scope of the project is to construct a dream home in a riverfront location of Windsor
city, Ontario, Canada. The budget and time estimated for the dream home construction work are
$300,000 and 14 months. Therefore, the aim of the contractors and other construction
stakeholders are to complete the work within estimated timeline and budget only. The budget

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specified for the project is enough. The amount of pollution in Canada is lesser than any other
neighbourhood countries and in order to maintain the pollution free environmental balance in the
riverside location the home is planned to build considering green building concept. In order to
build the green home precious natural green resources are considered so that both climatic and
quality of life gets improved. The builders and contractors will use renewable resource in terms
of solar energy. It is duty of the construction manager to use the natural renewable resources
effectively and efficiently to enable its usability. It would help to keep the indoor environment
pollution free. The materials those are used for construction of a green home include non toxic,
ethical and sustainable materials. The design will enable adaption for changing the overall
environment. In order to complete the construction works both technical and non technical
experts are required. It is assumed that successful completion of the dream home construction
work will meet expectation of clients and give positive, pollution free environment.
For this project a scope baseline in terms of a benchmark or reference must be considered
by the project manager and maintained by team throughout the project development life cycle
period. The scope for the dream home construction project holds a WBS dictionary and a detail
document. Project scope has to be formally approved by the construction lead and project
sponsor. The scope set for this project can be changed through different forma control
procedures.
Work Breakdown Structure
WBS item Dependencies Duration Assigned
resources
1.1 Landscaping

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1.1.1 Site selection Site supervision and
government permission
2 2
1.1.2 Feasibility analysis and timeline setup 1.1.1 2 5
1.1.3 Addition of ornamental features through
tree plantation
1.1.2 6 3
1.2 House structure
1.2.1 Concrete 1.1.1 5 1
1.2.2 Floor, slab and roof structure
presentation
1.3.2 8 1
1.2.3 Selecting best construction tools 1.3.2 4 2
1.3 Inside work
1.3.1 Excavation and PCC 1.1.1 4 3
1.3.2 Installing tiles 1.1.3, 1.6.1 4 8
1.3.3 Complete drywall and exterior design 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.4.3,
1.5.2
2 1
1.4 Infrastructure
1.4.1 Windows and doors framing 1.6.1 5 3
1.4.2 Painting and Tile setting 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.5.1 3 6
1.4.3 Plumbing and electricity installation 1.4.2, 1.5.2 3 2
1.5 Management
1.5.1 Communication management plan 1.6.1 4 4
1.5.2 Human resource management plan 1.5.1 2 1
1.5.3 Quality management plan 1.5.2 4 8

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1.6 Others
1.6.1 Inspection 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3.1 2 2
1.6.2 Milestone 1: Completion of pre
construction and construction stage
1.4.2 0 0
1.6.3 Milestone 2: Completion of project
construction stage
1.2.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.3 0 0
WBS dictionary
i. Task name Design and construction of a dream home in Canada
ii. Task assumption
It is assumed that, the construction task has to be competed in bank approved given
budget rate of $300,000.
iii. Task constraints
The project is divided into 6 phases: landscape, house construction, inside work,
infrastructure, management and others. Triple project constraints in terms of scope, budget and
time for the individual phases are considered in this project. The budget for the 6 respective
phases are – $80000, $70, 000, $60,000 $45, 000, $10,000 and $30,000.
iv. Task project requirements:
The requirement examples needed for the project are as follows:
 Smart home building equipments and appliances
 Green home building appliances

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 Raw construction materials
v. Quality standards
According to ISO 90000 the quality standards considered include:
 Inspection of the test status
 Control for the nonconformance products
 Handling design control and internal auditing
vi. Task deliverables
 Complete the dream home building project in $300,000
 Deliver the project to clients within 14 months
 Addition of technical aspects and green home building concept as well
vii. Task mandatory dependencies
All the project activities are dependent on each other. However some of the activities of
dream home construction project will run paralelly which implies that developers need not
complete one task to initiate the very next one. Framing, constriction of roof, slabs and tiles are
dependent on the concrete phase.
viii. Task external dependency
Royal builders and construction company is appointed to complete the relationship
between contractors, sub contractors, civil engineer and architect.

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Project Gantt chart
Task Name Duratio
n Start Finish
Dream home construction project construction 24 days 25/02/20 27/03/20
1.1 Landscaping 10 days 25/02/20 09/03/20
1.1.1 Site selection Site supervision and government
permission 2 days 25/02/20 26/02/20
1.1.2 Feasibility analysis and timeline setup 2 days 27/02/20 28/02/20
1.1.3 Addition of ornamental features through tree
plantation 6 days 02/03/20 09/03/20
1.2 House structure 20 days 27/02/20 25/03/20
1.2.1 Concrete 5 days 27/02/20 04/03/20
1.2.2 Floor, slab and roof structure presentation 8 days 16/03/20 25/03/20
1.2.3 Selecting best construction tools 4 days 16/03/20 19/03/20
1.3 Inside work 22 days 27/02/20 27/03/20
1.3.1 Excavation and PCC 4 days 27/02/20 03/03/20
1.3.2 Installing tiles 4 days 10/03/20 13/03/20
1.3.3 Complete drywall and exterior design 2 days 26/03/20 27/03/20
1.4 Infrastructure 12 days 09/03/20 24/03/20
1.4.1 Windows and doors framing 5 days 09/03/20 13/03/20
1.4.2 Painting and Tile setting 3 days 17/03/20 19/03/20
1.4.3 Plumbing and electricity installation 3 days 20/03/20 24/03/20
1.5 Management 10 days 09/03/20 20/03/20
1.5.1 Communication management plan 4 days 09/03/20 12/03/20
1.5.2 Human resource management plan 2 days 13/03/20 16/03/20
1.5.3 Quality management plan 4 days 17/03/20 20/03/20
1.6 Others 17 days 05/03/20 27/03/20
1.6.1 Inspection 2 days 05/03/20 06/03/20
1.6.2 Milestone 1: Completion of pre construction and
construction stage 0 days 19/03/20 19/03/20
1.6.3 Milestone 2: Completion of post construction stage 0 days 27/03/20 27/03/20

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Figure 1: Gantt chart of the dream home construction project
(Source: Created by author)

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Critical Path Network Diagram
Figure 2: Critical Path Analysis
(Source: Created by author)
Risk management plan
WB
S
Risk Description of
the risk
Likelihood Impact Strategy Response
1.1.2 Insufficient
communication
between the
In order to
share useful
information
Likely (4) High
(4)
Direct formal
communication
Direct and
formal
communication

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stakeholders among
associates
successful
communication
is essential. If
effective
communication
is not
conducted then
all useful will
not be shared
needs to be
conducted to
make all the
stakeholders
understand the
clinet’s
requirements
1.2.3 Overrunning
project budget
Before
initiating the
project if
budget
summary is not
prepared then
budget may
exceed the
early
estimation
Possible
(3)
High
(4)
Feasibility
study and
report
presentation
The finance
manager needs
to develop a
feasibility
report to check
whether the
project will be
successful or
not
1.2.3 Over allocation
of resources
If resources are
not properly
Unlikely
(2)
Extreme
(5)
Accurate
resource
Based on the
activities and

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selected and
allocated then
major resource
management
related risks
will occur
management
plan
their
complexities
resources are
needed to be
allocated to
each task
1.2.3 Over running
project
schedule
If WBS
dictionary is
not accurately
prepared then
schedule may
exceed the
early estimated
value
Likely (4) Major
(2)
Time
management
plan
Based on the
complexity of
each
development
activity, time
management
plan needs to
prepare
1.2.2 Appointing
technically
inexperienced
architect and
civil engineer
If it is found
that project
manager failed
to appoint
experienced
technical
experts then
project would
fail to meet
Likely (4) Minor
(1)
Appointing
stakeholders
after checking
their
performance

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expectation of
the clients
1.2.3 Selection of
incorrect
project
management
tools
If accurate
construction
project
management
tools are not
selected then
the entire
project would
not be
successfully
directed to the
expected
objectives,
aims and goals.
Possible
(3)
Extreme
(5)
Proper project
management
tools are
needed to be
selected
Quality management plan
Quality management plan is one of the pillars for successful project delivery. For the
dream home construction project quality management plan plays essential role. Maintaining
standard construction quality is important to ensure on-time and within budget completion of the
construction work. The quality management plan is developed followed by quality control and

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quality assurance. The quality standard for this construction project is set by the project owner
and contractor. This specification usually references some benchmarks of other similar service
providers. The location, work volume assigned, staff allocation, labour incentives and work
volume fluctuation varies for different projects. Therefore, in order to deliver a prefect dream
home to their clients some routine change and construction practices are essential. Inaccurate
quality management plan can become barrier for the project success. Appropriate supply chain
activities and process values are required to meet expected quality of the project.
The contractor, sub contractors and other project stakeholders generally confront the
cooperation and relationship between the project associates. It is duty of the contractor to control
project quality however most of the time they failed to considers effective quality management
process and prcatices. Project superintendent will develop the quality management plan using
their previous skills and knowledge. For managing the quality of the dream home construction
project different prcatices those will be followed throughout include proper policy and procedure
implementation, setting goals and objectives, distribution of accurate roles and responsibilities
among associates, process improvement, document control and periodic approval and review.
After that ambiguities are needed to be clarified successfully. Individually the
transportation, documentations to be prepared, construction procedures will also reviewed before
final execution. The quality requirements should be inspected, tracked and controlled
respectively according to the requirements. Information to be shared among team and
stakeholders must be recorded on a daily basis. In order to maintain the performance for
furnishing documentary evidences daily record keeping and update those respectively is essential
to deliver quality project. The contractors and builders of the dream home construction project
must keep all the records daily. These data are needed to keep secured and authorized as well to

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make sure that only authorized users and stakeholders are capable to access them. The team will
give a daily construction report to their supervisor.
The construction report will include date, cloud cover, climate, rainfall possibilities;
equipments will be using every day, daily responbilities of the sub contractors, description of the
work to be inspected. Apart from that, different corrective actions to be taken for resolving
problems such as delay, over allocation of resources, over running budget are also part of quality
management plan. Periodic meeting with the staffs, progress updates are the other prcatices must
be used to assure quality of the project. Not only this but also the raw materials will be used to
construct the green building in Canada are needed to tested and inspected.
Unless the quality considered for project are not assured as can be accepted by the project
contractor till that the project never get initiates. Materials are checked to ensure whether those
are similar to the approved materials or not. The interiors and exterior of the dream home must
be developed by experienced architect and civil engineer.
Summarizing the aspects, main activities that are to be followed to deliver a quality
project are enlisted below.
 Rechecking the project objective and scope
 Recheck the timeline and budget summary implemented earlier
 Considering clinet’s and contractors feedback
 Identification of critical success factors

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Communication management plan
Communication management plan is defined as a practice used to share useful
information among specific project group members and stakeholders as well. It emphasizes the
project ideas and makes it clear to other team associates. Effective communication management
contributes huge in success of a project. For this project period meeting is essential. It will help
to share useful information among the project team members. Direct, upward, downward
different communication strategies are there. It also helps to share feedback given by the
supervisors.
For the dream home construction project in Canada, among the different communication
prcatices open communication is determined as the most suitable one. Open communication
gives direct information sharing opportunities to the project team associates and stakeholders. In
other words, open communication strategy allows the stakeholders sharing useful project related
to dream home construction project directly without any conflict. Infact all the stakeholders can
share their ideas and thoughts about the project during meetings. For this project all creative
ideas will be considered. The communication matrix and meetings that will be followed
throughout the project development life cycle are elaborated in the below section:
Purpose Medium When Frequency Participants
The purpose of this
meeting is for
making key decision
to realize the project
activities and
financial
Email and face
to face
communication
Throughout the project
development life cycle
Monthly Construction
project
manager,
sponsors and
other

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distributions.
All probable
changes those will
be incorporated to
the project must be
communicated to
the team and
stakeholders in this
meeting.
Project related
issues are identified
in this meeting and
respective actions to
be tae to resolve the
issues are also
elaborated here
stakeholders
Meeting to conduct
discussion regarding
the contract and
probable profit that
the contractor can
earn from the
successful delivery
Face to face
meeting, email
and conference
Before developing
detail project plan
Weekly Construction
project
manager,
sponsors

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of the project.
Discussion on
tendering, contract
setup and
negotiation
Face to face
meeting, email
and conference.
Before establishing
project contract
Monthly Construction
project
manager and
stakeholders
Discussion with
clients regarding
interior setup
required
Face to face
meeting
The interior design
structure should be set
up before initiating the
project
Monthly Construction
project
manager and
stakeholders
Documenting status
on actions, items,
decision making and
encountered
problems
Face to face
meeting and
conference
It has to be done
throughout the pre
construction and
construction project
development stage
Weekly Construction
project
manager and
stakeholders
In this meeting the
roles and
responsibilities that
are to be played by
each of the project
team associates and
stakeholders as well
are discussed
Face to face
meeting and
conference
Before the final
initiation and project
planning stage
Monthly Construction
project
manager,
sponsors and
other
stakeholders
Meeting will be Face to face Before the project Monthly Construction

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conducted to
identify what
specific green
building concepts
are going to be
considered during
construction of the
dream home in
Canada.
meeting and
conference
initiates and project
planning is initiates
project
manager,
sponsors and
other
stakeholders
In this meeting how
the progress will be
updated and shared
with associates will
be discussed
Face to face
meeting
The project information
needs to be shared
among the project team
associates and
stakeholders as well
throughout the
development life cycle
period. If progress
update is not shared
successfully among
associates and
stakeholders then the
entire project will fail to
meet expected benefits
Weekly Construction
project
manager,
sponsors and
other
stakeholders

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and objectives.
Human Resource management plan
Human resource management plan is defined as a practice used in project management to
manage all the assigned human resources such as employees, stakeholders, clients and
consumers. For this specific dream home construction project the human resources considered
include- contractor, sub contractor, project manager, civil engineer, architect and labour. It is
responsibility of the HR manager to develop standard guideline that has to be followed by each
of the project team associates and stakeholders. Staffing, managing, controlling and releasing
human resources as per the project requirement are also responsibility of the project HR
manager. No particular on job training program strategy is implemented for the dream home
construction project stakeholders and associates.
HR management plan creates guidance for the human resources and identifies
individual’s responsibilities. It is developed to let the project stakeholders know how they will be
managed and how the wages distribution will be accomplished successfully. In this process
individual team member’s abilities are evaluated Based on their previous experiences and skills
responsibility distribution is done. The stages those will be considered to develop the HR project
plan include access of current HR capacity, forecast of HR requirements, development of talent
strategies and review and evaluation of HR management plan developed for the successful
construction of the dream home in Canada.
RAM
WBS Stakeholder’s name

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Contracto
r
sub
contractor
architec
t
civil
engineer
Labours
1.1.1 Site selection Site
supervision and government
permission
R C A I
1.1.2 Feasibility analysis and
timeline setup
C R A I
1.1.3 Addition of ornamental
features through tree plantation
I A R C
1.2.1 Concrete R I A C
1.2.2 Floor, slab and roof
structure presentation
I A C R
1.2.3 Selecting best
construction tools
C A R I
1.3.1 Excavation and PCC A C A R
1.3.2 Installing tiles R A C I
1.3.3 Complete drywall and
exterior design
C A R I
1.4.1 Windows and doors
framing
R I A C
1.4.2 Painting and Tile setting R C A I
1.4.3 Plumbing and electricity C A R I

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installation
1.5.1 Communication
management plan
R A I C
1.5.2 Human resource
management plan
I A C R
1.5.3 Quality management plan C A R I
1.6 Others A C A R
1.6.1 Inspection R A C I
Project Budget
WBS Allocated Funds Total
Material Labour
1.1 Landscaping $80,000
1.1.1 Site selection
Site supervision and
government
permission
Machines to check the
soil quality of the
selected location
Mechanical engineer
and hydraulic
engineer
$20,000
1.1.2 Feasibility
analysis and timeline
setup
Computer hardware,
some software for
designing the
blueprint
Finance manager $10,000
1.1.3 Addition of Computer hardware, Architect $50,000

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ornamental features
through tree
plantation
some software to
design the outline
structure
1.2 House structure $70,000
1.2.1 Excavation and
PCC
NA Mechanical engineer
and civil engineer
$20,000
1.2.2 Concrete Cement, sand, stones,
stone chip
Labours and civil
engineer
$45,000
1.2.3 Selecting best
construction tools
NA Civil engineer $5,000
1.3 Inside work $60,000
1.3.1 Floor, slab and
roof structure
presentation
Cement, sand, stones,
stone chip
Labours, civil
engineer
$20,000
1.3.2 Installing tiles Cement, sand, stones,
stone chip
Labours, contractor
and sub contactor
$20,000
1.3.3 Complete
drywall and exterior
design
Cement, sand, stones,
stone chip
Labours, contractor
and sub contactor
$20,000
1.4 Infrastructure $45,000
1.4.1 Windows and
doors framing
word, iron cement Labours $20,000
1.4.2 Painting and Selected paint colours Cost for the labours $20,000

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Tile setting
1.4.3 Plumbing and
electricity installation
Pumping process
setup and electricity
process generation
Plumber and
electricians
$5,000
1.5 Management $10,000
1.5.1 Communication
management plan
NA Project manager $4,000
1.5.2 Human resource
management plan
NA Project manager $2,000
1.5.3 Quality
management plan
NA Project manager $4,000
1.6 Others $30,000
1.6.1 Inspection Hardware, software
and technical
specifications
Project manager $10,000
1.6.2 Milestone 1 NA NA $10,000
1.6.3 Milestone 2 NA NA $10,000

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PROJECT
TASKS
LABOUR
HOURS
LABOUR
COST ($)
MATERIAL
COST ($)
TRAVEL
COST ($)
Project
Design
1.1.1 Site
selection Site
supervision
and
government
permission
8 hour $100 $10,000 $5,000
1.1.2
Feasibility
analysis and
timeline setup
8 hour $240 $10,000 $5,600
1.1.3 Addition
of ornamental
features
through tree
plantation
8 hour $250 $5,000 $5,000
1.2.1 Concrete 8 hour $200 $2,500 $5,600
Subtotal
Project
Development
1.2.2 Floor,
slab and roof
structure
presentation
8 hour $200 $12,000 $2,000
1.2.3 Selecting
best
8 hour $500 $4,000 $4,000

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construction
tools
1.3 Inside
work
8 hour $100 $14,000 $5,000
1.3.1
Excavation and
PCC
8 hour $150 $5,000 $2,000
1.3.2 Installing
tiles
8 hour $230 $12,000 $5,000
Subtotal
Project
Delivery
1.4
Infrastructure
8 hour $200 $15,000 $1,000
1.4.1 Windows
and doors
framing
8 hour $500 $20,000 $2,000
1.4.2 Painting
and Tile setting
8 hour $100 $18,000 $4,500
1.4.3 Plumbing
and electricity
installation
8 hour $150 $15,000 $2,000
1.5.1
Communicatio
n management
plan
8 hour $240 $2,000 $3,800

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1.5.2 Human
resource and
quality
management
plan
8 hour $120 $17,000 $3,000
Subtotal 120 hours $3,280 $161,500 $59,900

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