Comprehensive Project Quality Management Plan: Strategies & Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive Project Quality Management Plan, beginning with an evaluation of different types of feasibility studies, including economic, scheduling, operational, legal, and technical aspects, to determine project potential. It emphasizes the importance of project communication management, highlighting effective communication strategies to prevent misunderstandings and bridge language gaps. The report also explores project schedule management tools and techniques such as the Critical Path Method (CPM), Critical Chain Method, and schedule compression techniques like crashing and fast tracking. Furthermore, it discusses techniques for potential risk control, including risk acceptance, avoidance, and mitigation, outlining strategies for managing risks effectively. The conclusion underscores the significance of these elements in ensuring project success, emphasizing the need for careful consideration of costs and alignment with project priorities.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Different Type of Feasibility Studies..............................................................................................2
Importance of Project Communication Management......................................................................3
Project Schedule Management Tools and Techniques....................................................................5
Techniques for Potential Risks Control...........................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The potential of the project is evaluated through a feasibility study for making the project
successful. Communication exchange information from one point to another point in a project
management. Communication is very important in project management as it is the essential tool
in managing the project. The project success depends on the communication network efficiency.
The paper discusses the importance of communication in a project, to overcome the obstacle
while communicating, there required a steps for communicating effectively. The project
scheduling management use the tools and techniques that develop schedule process to understand
the concepts and implementation of project scheduling tools and techniques. The process of risk
management starts with identification that examine the concept of the project with potential risks
threatening the project process and outcome. At the analysis stage, there is an option for the risk
to control. The strategies for risk management control include Avoidance, Acceptance and
Mitigation which is discuss in the technique for potential risk control section below.
Different Type of Feasibility Studies
In a project management there are five areas of feasibility studies:
Economic Feasibility: The economic feasibility gives resources to the company and it measures
the cost that is incurred for the development of the new system. It is a cost benefit analysis as it
determines the total cost for the new system development and it also derive some benefits from
that system (Cascetta et al., 2015). The credibility of the project is enhanced and independently
serves the project assessment. The economic benefits get determine by decision makers.

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Scheduling Feasibility: This is the important part for the success of the project or else the
project get fails when it is not completed at the given time. Scheduling is completely based on
time and it measures the available time for the project (Kuhpfahl & Bierwirth, 2016). The
organization will estimate the time for completing the project.
Operational Feasibility: The operational feasibility measures the solving capability of the
companies’ problems and there are opportunities presented on the project course. There is certain
problem that are identified in the project and provide solution based problems that are measured
for a project or for the organization. Analysis has been done for the proposed system for the
existing system of the users.
Legal Feasibility: The project that are undertaken meet the ethical and legal requirements. The
project has proposed a conflict which is investigated through the legal feasibility assessment
(Guo, Bi & Liu, 2018). This requirement are the data protection acts, zoning laws or social media
laws. Suppose a building for a new office is constructed in a specific location. The ideal location
of the organization reveals the legal feasibility study. The time and effort has been saved
considerably as the project could not be feasible from the start.
Technical feasibility: Technical feasibility undertake the technological resources of the project.
The success of the project procedures and processes are conducive. The technical feasibility
identifies the technical resources that are efficient to manage the input and output devices for
amount with large data. The existing system of the hardware and software could be measured to
support the system that has been proposed. Budget is one of the constraint given where the
availability of the technology is being checked.

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Importance of Project Communication Management
The Project Communication Management is important to get start the project with solid
communication plan. There is basic strategy given for a project that need successful
communication. The verbal and non-verbal language of the body transmits a message that have
effective communication. Diversity leads to more ideas and has creativity with higher levels,
more choices and options are given to the organization which result in better outcome with better
products and services. Communication can sometime create a situation that can be complex and
challenging. Perspective and experiences of a person may vary as words that may be appropriate
to one person may be offensive to the other. Knowledge could be gain through effective
communication and develop a group of team having positive work relationship.
1. Receiving information: Information has to relay with the project managers were the given
project access the information. Stakeholders may anytime need project information in which it
may have plans, objectives, time constraints, customer needs and risks. Delays and
Misunderstandings can be prevented that have focused and regular communication which may
cause project failure.
2. Discussing problems: For every problem, a fish bone diagram essentially solves the causes.
The communication can be done in various forms apart from fish bone diagram, it can be
through pie chart, infographics, linear/bar graphs, comic and more. There is a need of
developing more skills on effective communication.
3. Relaying information: The project manager ensures that the stakeholders and the team
members are informed of what the organization expect from the team and the stakeholder.
The time constraints and the roles and responsibilities which prevent on accomplishing task

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on time. For a project manager it is important to keep informing the team about the details of
the project and also about the progress of the project.
4. Bridging the language gap: The understanding of the benefits of the business could be
hinder when there is a language gap. Information can be deliver using languages that are
challenging as it is often unclear and contains jargons that are filled with project management.
This give the information about the importance of project communication. Communication
means interaction or being able to talk or speak. In any project management, understanding
the long-term goals of a business by the team to know about the contribution and learn to
make an impact. The success of the project completely depends on effective communication
which is very important for any project. When communication get improve the success get
maximize and the risk get minimize. Additionally, effective communication that is develop by
project manager along with stakeholder may mean more projects for the team.
5. Change in situation: The project manager requires to face the challenges from the project
start till the completion. The project manager fluid the projects which need to get prepare for
the challenges and has to face from the start till the closing of the project. Throughout the
team and the project effective communication it has been developed to ensure at the start of
the planning stage that needs to develop a communication plan. During the meetings that are
specific there are certain communication plan that required communication during the specific
meetings, communication frequency needed, and the communication of those that are needed.
Project Schedule Management Tools and Techniques
The Project Scheduling Tools and Techniques that are used in developing the schedule
process are as follow:

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Critical Path Method (CPM): The project schedule of the network diagram has the path with
longest duration which is the Critical path and it use the method call Critical Path Method (CPM)
(Chang, Yu & Cheng, 2017). The critical path delays the activities through which the whole
project get delay. It finds the project activities that are of high risk, activity float and the end date
of the project (Nafkha & Wiliński, 2016).
Critical Chain Method: Project dependencies consider the Critical Path Method (CPM) cross
which the resources are available for the project duration. The project team gets the durations of
the activity that implicitly buffers every activity which is unethical with the increase project cost.
Schedule Compression Techniques: The project schedule uses the crashing and fast tracking as
the techniques for schedule compression. Schedule Compression techniques is the part of the
Project Scheduling tools and techniques and are handy to shorten the schedule for the project
manager (Tomek & Kalinichuk, 2015).
1. Crashing: It is the part of the schedule compression techniques where multiple resources
are added to the activities that has shorten the schedule.
2. Fast Tracking: It identify the activities running in parallel portion or schedule extent.
Resource Optimization Techniques: In initial project scheduling, activities sequence is focus
with their dependencies which is an unrealistic resource requirement. Resource optimization
techniques can be applied to utilize the resource planning across the schedule based on the
organization policies (Gamarra & Guerrero, 2015). Two of the resource optimization techniques
are
1. Resource Leveling: It develop the project schedule process that optimizes the resource
technique. The resource constraints are applied by the resource leveling on the activities

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of the project depending on the start and the end date of the activities (Cheng, Prayogo &
Tran, 2015).
2. Resource Smoothing: There are some resources that are overly used during the project
schedule. The overall limits of the threshold met the resource demands, resource leveling
that have not balanced with resource supply. Resource smoothing ensure the balance of
the demand of the resource over the time period which consider the resource supply
(Havur et al., 2016). Hence, the needs of the project manager to see the floats or slacks
available across the activities and with it the technique of resource smoothing was
applied keeping into account the it should not impact the project schedule (Gilat et al.,
2015).
Techniques for Potential Risks Control
The technique of risk control process determines the potential impact of the risks. The
potential cost, time and effort of the risk control strategies has expended wisely (Hajmohammad
& Vachon, 2016). The strategies that were included in the risk management and control are
1. Risk Acceptance: Risk get acknowledge, but the action of risk could be avoided or
mitigated. This risk could be time consuming or too costly. There may be another
possibility that risk could not be mitigated or avoided and the benefits of the risks of the
project were outweigh.
2. Risk Avoidance: Action has to take in order to eliminate the risk. Based on the
circumstances, the scope of the project need to change, the project plans need to modify,
hire some additional resources, or adopt technical solutions that are different. Project
deliverables could be achieving were avoidance become costly (Bromiley et al., 2015).

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3. Risk Mitigation: Action has to take to minimize the potential impact of the risk that was
given by analyzing and considering alternative solutions which has a combination of
avoidance and acceptance (Yoon et al., 2018). Plans and schedules can alter and specific
actions are taken to minimize the chances of occurring a risk. The benefits of mitigation
cannot be realized without some expense in terms of equipment, time and staff resources.
Choosing the option to control
In every process, there is a starting point to view the options in a structured manner,
making the decision is easier and even justifiable. A given risk is avoided, accepted, or mitigated
by varying the issues, circumstances and specific needs. In the process of risk management, risk
control put every effort to mitigate and control the risk in terms of resources, money or time
(Teixeira et al., 2015). Before taking action to avoid, accept or mitigate, the cost of it are
considered carefully. With value, overall priority and project needs, the strategies to control the
risk are carefully aligned (Clothier & Walker, 2015). Further, while considering the strategies of
controlling the risk, the risk could have an impact on the project which ensures well placed
control efforts.
Conclusion
The paper will conclude with different types of feasibility study that evaluates the success
of the project potential. The organization determine the technical feasibility which involves the
evaluation of the software, hardware and other technology requirements. The project cost or
benefit analysis involves the cost, viability and benefits that are associated with the project
before allocating the financial resources.

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In this paper, communication is suggested to be the key for the project success. The
process of communication, importance of communication, an effective plan for communication,
steps for keeping alive the communication, are all discussed in the paper.
There are several tools and techniques that are used for developing the project scheduling
process which is part of the knowledge area of time management. The study contains the
important project scheduling tools and techniques which are very handy to shorten the project
schedule by the project manager. The paper has also show in what way the project manager uses
resources optimization techniques to balance the demand of the resources. Further, there are
other tools used in developing project schedule.

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