7014ENG Project Management Practice: Risk, Quality, Schedule Report

This report delves into the core principles of project management, examining critical knowledge areas such as schedule management, quality management, and risk management. It emphasizes the importance of effective project planning, resource allocation, and communication to achieve project goals. The report explores project scheduling techniques, quality control measures, and risk mitigation strategies, supported by references to relevant literature. The findings highlight the need for a well-defined project plan, the use of tools like Gantt charts, and the implementation of a communication plan to prevent construction problems. The conclusion underscores the significance of meeting client requirements, addressing project risks, and adapting to challenges through proper planning and management. The case studies in the report analyze real-world scenarios, such as the Sydney Opera House project, to illustrate the practical application of project management concepts.

Project
Management
Practice

Introduction
• Understanding benefits of project schedule, quality and
risk management knowledge areas
• Develop, maintain and communicate project time and
resources
• Assess and control quality of project deliverables (Lou, Xu,
& Wang , 2017).
• Identify and manage project risks, actions taken to
mitigate risks
• Create new knowledge for the individuals those are
involved in construction project planning (Hu et al.,

Schedule Management
Knowledge Area
• Project scheduling techniques in construction project to align the project
aspects
• Help to present how one task is dependent on other task (Heagney,
2016).
• Allocate resources and end work on planned time
• Schedule tracks the project milestones and key project deliverables
• Scheduling assists in project tracking and project reporting (Heldman,
2018).
• Limit project uncertainties to estimate schedule

Quality Management
Knowledge Area
• Improvement over satisfaction of the project stakeholders
throughout continuous improvement
• Develop a strong relations with the key stakeholders for better
understanding of quality (Javed & Liu , 2017).
• Identify quality needs for the project and how the project can
meet with quality needs
• Quality audit as well as checklists are used for quality assurance
(Rumane, 2017).
• Improvement over quality of construction products and services

Risk Management Knowledge
Area
• Risk register provides the project manager with assessment of risk as
importance to meet objectives
• Risks are categorized as high and low probability of occurrence and
positive and negative impact (Hillson, 2017).
• Analyze effects of risk on budget and timeline
• Highlight percentage of project change and difference in project
results (Burtonshaw-Gunn, 2017).
• Determine severity of risk situations to identify threat and
opportunity of risk arises

Results and Findings
Knowled
ge areas
Case Study 1 Case Study 2 Case Study 3
Schedule
Manageme
nt
Scheduled properly
through tracking of
project activities
Align the project
aspects like cost, time
and quality
Require to identify project
scope and list of project
activities
Quality
Manageme
nt
Perform quality
assurance process to
execute as well as
control quality of
products
Quality is being
reviewed with project
scope, timetable as
well as financial
planning
Proper implementation of
quality standards in the
construction organization
Risk
Manageme
nt
Communication plan
should help to
overcome conflicts and
misunderstandings
Risk register provides
the project manager
with assessment of
risk as importance to
meet objectives
Fixed working schedule
should be implemented in
the organization

Recommendations
• Project scheduling of entire project plan before starting the
construction work
• Gantt chart should be used to represent the project activities in
graphical form for understanding the activities with start, end date,
dependencies and allocated resources
• Communication plan should be used for preventing construction
problems
• The project should require to proceed with minimal project
activities for better analysis of the project work

Conclusion
• Project document is used to record project deliverables
• Quality of project deliverables are achieved through meeting
with client’s requirements in addition to expectations
• Risks are solved by means of using communication method
• Determine how to implement plans, how to face challenges and
how to overcome with those issues
• Proper risk planning is required to make changes in scope, time
as well as cost issues

References
• Burtonshaw-Gunn, S. A. (2017). Risk and financial management in construction. Routledge.
• Heagney, J. (2016). Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
• Heldman, K. (2018). PMP: project management professional exam study guide. John Wiley & Sons.
• Hillson, D. (2017). Managing risk in projects. Routledge.
• Hu, X., Cui, N., Demeulemeester, E., & Bie, L. (2016). Incorporation of activity sensitivity measures into
buffer management to manage project schedule risk. European Journal of Operational Research, 249(2),
717-727.
• Javed, S. A., & Liu, S. (2017, August). Evaluation of project management knowledge areas using grey
incidence model and AHP. In 2017 International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services
(GSIS) (pp. 120-120). IEEE.
• Lou, J., Xu, J., & Wang, K. (2017). Study on construction quality control of urban complex project based on
BIM. Procedia engineering, 174, 668-676.
• Rumane, A. R. (2017). Quality management in construction projects. CRC Press.