Project Management Assessment 3: Royale Pizza Renovation Project

This project management assessment analyzes the Royale Pizza renovation project, focusing on various aspects of project management. The report begins with an introduction that defines project management and sets the context for the case study. The main body of the report delves into the implementation plan, detailing the organizational structure, levels of authority, management style, and key factors for successful project execution, including clearly defined goals, a competent project manager, top management support, competent team members, sufficient resource allocation, adequate communication channels, control mechanisms, feedback capabilities, responsiveness to clients, and risk management. The report also examines the monitoring and control process, outlining steps for assessing project efficiency, improving internal learning, ensuring accountability, and contributing to project outcomes. Additionally, it covers the tools and techniques required for the controlling process, including workflow management, stakeholder coordination, scheduling, and communication. The assessment provides an overview of the project performance evaluation and the project closure phase.

Project Management
Assessment 3
Name:
Date: 07 June 2020
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 3
MAIN BODY 3
1. Implementation plan 3
2. Monitoring and control process 6
3. Project performance evaluation 9
4. Project closure 1

INTRODUCTION
Project management is the planning of guiding a team's work at a given period to
accomplish objectives and fulfil the success criteria. The project manager's main aim is to maintain
all the project goals inside the defined circumstances. Typically, this detail is defined in the project
report which was generated at the beginning of the construction process (Andersen, 2016). This
assessment based on the case study of Royale Pizza was founded in 2007 and offer a variety of
foods and other related services. This assessment covers the renovation project of Royale Pizza to
expand its customers reach as well as profitability. This report covers several topics such as
implementation plan which cover all the necessary information, monitoring, execution and closer
phase of project management to get the success in this project.
MAIN BODY
1. Implementation plan
Royale Pizza was founded in 2007 by a businessman with over 20 years of experience
throughout the foodservice sector. Royale Pizza is associated with high quality and traditional taste
of Italian pizzas, and now they deliver 40 types of a foodie and famous pizza. The shop is situated
on one of Melbourne CBD’s busiest roads, near the Southern Cross Station. The main renovation
project involves the work related to flooring, air conditioning construction, dust-free lighting,
improved compressor capacity and skilled kitchen exhaust cleaning. Machinery will include buying
3 fryers, 2 heating systems, 1 dough roller, point - of - sale machine with proper software and
hardware to power it.
Management structure: In order to the successful implementation of the project plan, the
organization should have a matrix organizational structure. A project manager should have enough
power to maintain the project and direct their team members about the task which required
completing on time. The staff members report into two supervisors in a matrix organisation and one
is a functional manager and another is the project manager. Information occurs from the two
managers to the team leaders (Daniel and Daniel, 2018). The matrix organization is generated to
achieve the maximum value from the organizational culture of both functional and predicted form.
Departmental work is performed by staff members, and they also perform a project task. Project
manager of Royale Pizza should follow this matrix management structure and hold the entire power
under their hand and build a separate team for it, who works under this renovation project. It will
help them to control the entire activities and at the end, the project manager is separately
accountable for it.
Levels of authorities

From the case study, it is evident that the level of autonomy is prevalent. It is solely the decision of
the entrepreneurs and the other up-level management staff to take up decisions regarding the
renovation of the shop. The shop had been operated and managed by the owners all these years and
they focused strongly on the aspects of gaining profit by delivering quality pizzas that are
affordable and tasty. Recently, the shop owners decided to renovate the shop in order to diversify
the business and focus on zero-waste business. Thus, it is the upper management as the decision-
maker and the decisions are based on the reports provided by the other departments.
Level of authorities-
Top- The top-level authority exists at the highest level in an organization. It is required
because it leads to control of activities. It is present in Royale Pizza where it is controlled by higher
managers.
Middle- The middle-level authority is present in the middle level in a company. It acts as a
bridge between top and lower-level management. It is present in Royale Pizza and helps in getting
instructions from top and implementing it in the lower-level management.
Supervisory- The supervisory-level authority is present in the lower level in an
organization. It is present in Royale Pizza and helps in getting the work done from the subordinates.
Style and culture: In this element, the project manager should follow the best management
style to motivate their employees or team members to achieve project requirements. It is suggested
that the democratic leadership style is most appropriate but when managers want to complete any
task before deadline along with the quality, that time autocratic leadership style is most favourable
to adopt. Authoritative leaders encourage a dynamic sense of creativity and passion for the project.
Experts also claimed that "the ultimate leader is a revolutionary who inspires people by telling them
how the work blends into this dream," which will be true for every project.
Autocratic leadership style- Autocratic leadership style is a style in which the managers
ascertain their autocracy in the organization by taking decisions by themselves.
Strength- This style leads to faster decision-making within an organization and therefore
can help in taking the correct decision.
Weakness- This leads to autocracy and the subordinates may feel that they are not given
due importance in the organization.
There are various types of factors which are focused on while implementing a project plan.
All of them could be understood with the help of the following discussion:

Clearly Defined goals: It is mainly focused on the mission of the project and well-
structured purpose of the tasks that will be performed to complete the project.
Competent Project Manager: An individual with effective technical, administrative and
interpersonal skills known as the competent project manager who is very important for a
project.
Top Management Support: All the internal, as well as external stakeholders, are required
to be supported by the management which is responsible to control the project and other
individuals working on it (Ekrot, Kock and Gemünden, 2016).
Competent team members: All the individuals who will be working on the project are
required to be skilled and well trained so that they can perform all the roles which will be
assigned to them.
Sufficient resource allocation: It is very important for the project managers to make sure
that they have acquired all the required financial and other necessary resources for all types
of positive as well as negative situations.
Adequate communication channels: It is very important for the project managers to make
sure that there is open communication between the stakeholders, customers, owners and
manager. It can help to circulate the detailed related to the project, its progress, objectives,
changes and needs.
Control Mechanisms: In order to measure the progress of project it is essential for project
manager to take proper measured of the plan and analyse that all the activities are running
according to the schedule (Eriksson, Larsson and Pesämaa, 2017).
Feedback capabilities: The stakeholders who are involved in the project should provide
feedback on the project and provide suggestions for corrections in the plan. It could be done
through formal meetings or information interaction.
Responsiveness to clients: It is very important for the project managers to interact with the
clients after completion of the project for any type of assistance which could be required by
them (Henjewele, 2019).
Risk Management: It is essential for the managers to make sure that they analyse and try to
mitigate all the risks which may affect the success of the project.
There are some specific attributes and characteristics that should be acquired by all the team
members. All of them could be understood with the help of the following discussion:
The common goal: All the effective teams are required to have a common goal which can
help to motivate all the team members. The goal of the team which is working on the project

of the renovation project of Royale Pizza is to complete the project successfully in 40000
Australian dollars.
Establishment of roles: All the team members of the team are required to be aware of all the
roles and responsibility of them. It can help them to interact with the stakeholders properly
and get their feedback. Apart from this, it can also help develop strategies to get the work
done easily and efficiently (Görög, 2016).
Time management: For all the team members it is very important to make sure that they
perform all their jobs on time as it can help to ignore the situation of delay in the activities. In
case of Royale Pizza the time duration is 4 months and to complete it on time the individuals
are required to perform all the jobs on time.
Problem-solving: It is a very important skill which is required to be acquired by all the team
members as it can help to deal with all the negative situation which may tale place at the
execution stage of the renovation project.
2. Monitoring and control process
When the plan is formulated and implemented successfully it is very important for the
management to make sure that they check the plan strictly and carefully to analyse the issues in it.
Afterwards effective steps to control them are required to be followed. Monitoring and controlling
are two main tasks which are required to be performed by managers to meet the commitment and
deadlines. There are several steps which are required to be followed while working on monitoring
and controlling of the renovation project of Royale Pizza All of them are as follows:
Assessment of the efficiency of the project in accomplishing the project objectives and
plans: It is very important for the project manager to make sure that effective actions for the
management of the project are taken for this purpose, time, cost, resources, quality and
stakeholders are required to be analysed (Kerzner, 2017). The time required for the project
is 4 months, cost is 40000 dollars, quality is high and the stakeholders are customers,
employee and the owner of Royale Pizza. By paying attention towards all of them it could
be determined that project’s objectives will be accomplished or not.
Improvement on the internal learning and decision-making capabilities pertaining to
renovation plan implementation: At this stage the managers will be required to identify
the areas where improvement is required. For example, if the arrangements of new furniture
are not made properly then the manager will be required to make changes in the decision
which may pertain the renovation plan implementation.
Ensuring the individual accountability to the stakeholders and the team members
responsible for the renovation procedure: At this stage, the managers make sure that all

the individuals and stakeholders who are working on the project of renovation are
accountable for all their actions. It can help to remove the errors from the renovation
process (McClory, Read and Labib, 2017).
Contribution to the efficacy in the project outcome: It is the last stage of monitoring
where the manager will be responsible to analyse that the previously taken steps are able to
enhance the project execution and contribute in enhancement of efficiency.
Apart from this there are various internal as well as external factors which an
organization is required to consider in its control process. The internal factors to be
considered by Royale Pizza are efficiency of subordinates, quality of work etc. The external
factors to be considered are the requirements according to which a company must maintain its
quality standards. Thus this also has to be seen by Royale Pizza’s managers.
Tools and techniques required for the controlling process: When the managers of the
renovation project will be working on it, they will be required to take effective actions to control all
the activities. While monitoring the project the main focus is required to be paid towards the
workflow. It can help to make sure that all the activities are performed systematically. The key
stakeholders in the context of the renovation project will be suppliers, contractors, installers,
technical staff etc. In order to complete the project successfully proper coordination among them is
required to be established (Newton, 2016). While controlling and monitoring the project,
scheduling and communication are the two main functions which should be taken into
consideration. With the help of them, it could be assured that all the activities are performed
systematically. A table below shows the proper understanding of the renovation project and its
milestones:
Goal Required
resources
Related
stakeholders
Quality Time Cost
Buy the best
quality
electrical
equipment for
the kitchen.
For example,
the kitchen
exhaust
system, air-
Funding,
supplier of
the
equipment.
Supervisors
of the shop,
supplier of
equipment’s,
technical
support team.
Make sure
that the
quality of the
equipment
that will be
acquired is
good and
certified.
The time
duration
which will be
required for it
is 2 weeks.
Hence it
needs to be
ordered on
time to avoid
6000
Australian
dollars

conditioner
etc.
any delays
and risks.
Hire expert
for the
technical
team who can
conduct the
inspection
Technical
experts
Shop
supervisors
and the
technical
experts
Checking the
quality and
level of
inspection in
every 7 days
2 months 9000 dollars
Appointing
the safety
compliance
team to so
that security
of the project
could be
assured.
Compliance
team and
safety
consultants
Ship
supervisors,
safety experts
and
compliance
team
Checking the
level of safety
of the project
in every 5 to
7 days
1 month 6000 dollars
Hiring the
installers and
electricians
for the
installation of
the project
Electricians
and installers
Financiers,
electricians,
supervisors
and installers
Installing the
equipment in
the kitchen
and checking
its service
every 7 days
15 Days 8000 Dollars
Appointing
contractors
and starting
the renovation
work of
Royale Pizza
Finance for
construction
material
Financiers,
supervisors,
contractors,
professionals
for the
construction
4 months 11000 Dollars
3. Project performance evaluation
While working on a project it is very important for all the project managers to make sure
that effective evaluation of performance is done. The main focus in the renovation project of
Royale Pizza should be implementation of equipment and construction. It is very important for the
managers and other stakeholders working on the project to analyse the performance of the project

as it is significant for attaining success. The main element which will be focused on is delivering
good quality food to the clients so that sales could be increased by 25%. In the Spencer Street area
Royale Pizza is the only pizza shop so it does not have to deal with any type of competitors which
can help it to attract a large number of customers. There are various elements which are required to
be followed measure the performance. All of them are as follows:
Direct impact upon clients: It is one of the major elements which can help to analyse and
measure the success. The main objective of going under the renovation of Royale Pizza is to
retain existing clients and attract new customers. It has been estimated that when renovation
will be completed then it will result in increment in the number of clients by 20% per day.
Return on investment: The owners of Royale Pizza are willing to increase the sales by
25% and it has been estimated that it is the another KPI which can help to measure success
of renovation.
Engagement and support of stakeholders: In order to attain success in the renovation
project it is very important to engage the stakeholders as they play an important role in the
execution of all the operations. The main stakeholders for the project are consultants,
contractors, managers, installers, experts, supervisors etc. Support and engagement of them
is the KPI which can also help to measure performance and attain success (Padalkar and
Gopinath, 2016).
Completion of the milestones in the predetermined time period: There are various
milestones which are required to be completed on time and it can help to attain success.
Gantt chart:
Activit
ies
1st
to
2nd
we
ek
2n
d
to
3r
d
we
ek
3rd
to 5th
wee
k
5th
to
7th
wee
k
7th
to
10th
wee
k
11t
h to
13t
h
we
ek
13t
h to
15t
h
we
ek
15t
h to
17t
h
we
ek
17t
h to
18th
we
ek
18t
h to
20t
h
we
ek
Project
initiati
on
Plan
ning

and
prepa
ratio
n
Re
sou
rce
all
oca
tio
n
Exe
cuti
on
stra
teg
y

Scr
eeni
ng
and
aud
it
Repl
acem
ent
strate
gies
Milestone plan:
Milestone schedule
(input)
Tools and
techniques
Monitoring aspect
(outputs)
Time required
Scheduling the
management plan
Schedule
Network
Analysis
Manage
baseline
schedule 1 month
Management
of attribute
list
Critical Chain
Method
Milestone Charts 1 month
Formulating project
schedule and
network diagram
Resource
Optimization
Techniques
Updating the project
management plan
3 months

Planning
to
activity
resource
s
resource
Modelling
Techniques
Updating the project
document 4 months
Planning
for
activity
duration
Schedule
Compression
Techniques
Making
updates
in the
project
5 months
Strength of Gantt Chart- In a Gantt chart it is very easy to schedule the tasks according to the various types of requirements.
Weakness of Gantt Chart- A Gantt Chart can become very complex and thus it may become difficult to analyze the required information.
4. Project closure
When the duration of 4 months will be completed then the project will head towards the
closure stage. There are several steps which will be followed at this stage:
Complete the paperwork: At this stage, all the project related paperwork is completed
so that the contract could be closed (Turner, 2016). Here, all the outstanding payments are
cleared.
Conducting post-completion audit: It is one of the major steps which are required to be
taken as it helps to take a look back at all the milestones to measure success (Verzuh, 2015).
Releasing the resources: When the project is completed then the managers must make
sure that they have released all the resources. All the external stakeholders must sign off at this
stage (Sunder, 2016).
Archiving the project testimonials: It is the last stage of the closure of the renovation
project. Here, the details for the important components of the current project are required to be
archived as it can help to retrieve the requirements (Fewings & Henjewele, 2019).
As a Project Manager, there is a lot which can be learnt by the project stage. It can be
seen what went wrong and how it can be addressed (Kerzner, 2018). Also the necessary steps
which can be taken should be analyzed closely. This will help in taking the right decision in the
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future and bringing more efficiency and effectiveness in the project which will surely lead to
more benefits in the future.
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