PRM701 Project Management: Australian Tree Corp's Project Development

This report presents a comprehensive project management plan for Australian Tree Corp (ATC), a forestry estate owner in Western Australia. The project aims to address environmental challenges and natural disasters affecting the company's operations. The report outlines project goals, objectives, deliverables, and strategic alignment, utilizing the SMART criteria. It includes a detailed project schedule with milestones, resource requirements, and risk management strategies. A communication management plan is provided to ensure effective stakeholder engagement. The report concludes with recommendations for successful project execution, emphasizing communication and cost tracking. Desklib offers a platform to access this and similar solved assignments.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project: Australian Tree Corp
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Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Project background.................................................................................................................2
1.1 Project background...........................................................................................................2
1.2 Project goal.......................................................................................................................2
1.3 Project objective...............................................................................................................3
1.4 Project deliverable............................................................................................................3
1.5 Strategic alignment of project..........................................................................................4
2. Project schedule....................................................................................................................4
2.1 Milestone..........................................................................................................................4
2.2 Project requirements.........................................................................................................4
2.3 Limits and exclusions.......................................................................................................5
2.4 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart.....................................................................6
3. Risk management...................................................................................................................7
4. Project budget.......................................................................................................................10
5. Communication management plan.......................................................................................10
6. Recommendations................................................................................................................14
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................15

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1. Project background
1.1 Project background
The paper mainly focuses on the Australian Tree Corp which is one of the large
owners of the various forestry estates within Western Australia as they generally grow as well
as sell trees. The company generally engages in planting, outsourcing, maintaining different
type of elements including logistics as well as manufacturing different types of products. The
organization was determined to be profitable from the initial days and therefore the higher
authority of the organization wants to adopt proper practices for achieving more profits.
However, it is identified that ATC is struggling to cope with the natural disasters that
occurred and it affected the entire business operations of the organization. The organization
needs drastic cane within the management strategy as well as proper development of R&D in
order to discuss the different types of environmental challenge’s that generally arise. By
making proper environmental changes the organization will be able to learn about the
vulnerability of the tree in context to the natural disasters for making proper plan for the
project and for managing the forest.
1.2 Project goal
The ATC mainly aims to create proper plan so that with the help of which the
environmental challenges in context to natural disasters can be known successfully. The goals
of the project by utilizing the SMART criteria are illustrated below:
 Specific: The ATC aims to develop a plan for determining the environmental
challenges so that appropriate step for the resolving the issues as well as prompting
the team to determine the root cause of the problems in order to lean about the
vulnerabilities of trees..

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 Measurable: The determination of the environmental issues not only determines the
root causes of the problems but also helps inn improving the business conditions as
well as operations of the organizations.
 Attainable: Proper involvement of the project team for successfully determining the
root cause of the environmental changes as well as about the vulnerability of threes
can generally make the entire project attainable.
 Relevant: The goal of the entire project mainly focus on achieving profit for the
business for making the operations of the business smooth and thus the project is
linked with the business objectives that further makes the project relevant.
 Timely: 65 days’ time is provided for determining the root cause of the various types
of environmental changes that occur.
1.3 Project objective
The objectives include:
 To develop a plan in order to determine the root cause of different types of
environmental changes
 To learn about the various reasons those are linked with the vulnerabilities of the trees
 To make proper plan for managing the forest
1.4 Project deliverable
The deliverables mainly include:
 Project progress report
 Change management report
 Designing documents
 Natural disaster evaluation report

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1.5 Strategic alignment of project
The main focus of the ATC is to adopt better practices in order to gain more profit
from the organization and for making the business fruitful. It is identified that as the
organization presently faces a number of issues due to the occurrences of a number of natural
disasters therefore the organization generally wants to create a plan with the help of which
they generally can be able to determine the root causes of the environmental issues as well as
the problems that are related with the vulnerabilities of the trees. It is found that the plan that
is created will be beneficial for the entire organization as it would bring benefits by
improving the business conditions of the project. Thus, the undertaking of this specific
project helps in reflecting that the project is aligned with the strategic goals of the
organization.
2. Project schedule
2.1 Milestone
WBS Milestone Completion date
M1 Milestone 1: Getting approval for the entire project Tue 18-06-19
M2 Milestone 2: Completion of planning phase Fri 05-07-19
M3 Millstone 3: Execution phase completion Mon 19-08-19
M4 Milestone 4: Closure phase completion Wed 28-08-19
2.2 Project requirements
The requirements of the project are listed below:
 Human resource requirements: The human resources or the staffs who are involved
within the ATC project are listed below:
Project manager

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Risk analyst
Environmental risk analyst
Financial manager
Project planner
Hr. resource manager
 Hardware and Software requirements: The software and hardware needs include:
Computer
Laptop
Desktop
CPU
Project management software
Risk management software tools and more
 Additional requirements: The additional requirements include:
Proper communication session with all the members of the project
Proper training opportunity with the project team
2.3 Limits and exclusions
The limitations and project exclusions are illustrated below:
The supplies of the materials that are needs are not done with proper details of the
suppliers and thus the information of the project suppliers are excluded
The ATC should develop the plan for 65 days for successful project execution
otherwise issues related with project delay can generally arise.

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2.4 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
Figure 1: WBS in tabular form
(Source: Created by Author)

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Figure 2: Gantt chart
(Source: Created by Author)
3. Risk management
Risk Description Impact Probability Responsible Mitigation
Delay Delay in the
project can
cause
obstruction
within the
High High Project
planner
The delay in
the project
should be
managed by
calculating the

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project
progress.
earned value
analysis after
the utilization
of project
schedule.
Insufficient
budget
Insufficient
budget of
the project
mainly
focuses
financial
issues within
the project
that can
create
further
obstruction
during the
project
progress.
High High Financial
manager
The problems
due to
insufficient
budge can be
managed with
the help of
proper budget
tracking by the
financial
managers of
the project.
Lack of
managemen
t
If the
management
of the
organization
are
Medium Medium Project
manager
It is found that
implementatio
n of proper
strategies of
management

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incapable of
managing
the project
successfully
which
further
obstruction
the project
and thus the
completion
date can get
delayed.
need to be
successfully
implemented
for mitigating
the issues that
mainly occur
due to
improper
management.
Improper
evaluation
of the
natural
disasters
Inappropriat
e
Evaluation
of the
natural
disasters
generally
creates a lot
of issues in
determining
the
challenges.
Medium Medium Environmenta
l risk analyst
It is analyzed
that proper
evaluation of
the natural
disasters
should be done
with the help
of proper
reporting for
avoiding the
issues of the
project

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4. Project budget
The figure that is provided below reflects that the project of ATC will get completed
within $10,000.
Figure 3: Project budget
(Source: Created by Author)
5. Communication management plan
Project title:
The title of the project is implementation of a detailed plan for determining the root
cause of the environmental changes.

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Version control
Version Date Author Change Description
1 2-05-19 <Please Fill> Original
2 29-05-19
<Please Fill>
Original
Purpose of communication strategy
To external stakeholders
Suppliers
Contractors
Trainers
To internal stakeholders
Project manager
Resource manager
Risk analyst
Environmental risk analyst
Business analyst
Project planner