Project Management: Campus Renovation Plan for QAHE Manchester

This project management assignment addresses the renovation of the QAHE Manchester campus, aiming to increase teaching space. The assignment begins with budgetary information, detailing expenditures for staff wages, raw materials, and other costs, totaling £100,000. The objective is clearly defined, and a phased approach is selected for project execution. Key staff roles, including Project Manager, Resource Manager, Team Leader, and Project Sponsor, are outlined with their respective responsibilities. A stakeholder analysis identifies the impact and rationale for students, the project manager, sponsors, project team members, and facilities management. The assignment also includes a Gantt chart and a network diagram to visualize the project timeline and dependencies. The document concludes with a list of references, including books and journals related to project management.

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Budgetary Information................................................................................................................1
Objective.....................................................................................................................................1
Key Staff.....................................................................................................................................1
Stakeholder Analysis...................................................................................................................2
Gant Chart
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Network Diagram........................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

MAIN BODY
Budgetary Information.
EXPENDITURE AMOUNT
Staff Wages £25000
Convenience Charges £15000
Raw Material £35000
Insurance Charges £5000
Equipment Cost £10000
Other Expenditure £10000
TOTAL £100000
Objective
“To renovate Manchester based campus of QAHE”
QAHE is looking to refurbish and redevelop campus of business student in Manchester,
sole motive of doing the same is to increase a teaching space available in the campus. Main area
of focus in the same will be to restructure seating facility in the campus.
Approach
Phased Approach is the approach which will be used to find out the outcome of the
project. This approach will divide the work to be done into different phases. All the phases will
fall one after one (Meredith, Mantel Jr and Shafer, 2017). Reason for choosing this Approach is
that it helps in overcoming resistance to change very efficiently as different lesson about the
work are learned in the early stage itself. Project manager will be coordinating with facility
management of QAHE after completion of every phase in an organization.
Key Staff
Project Manager: Project manager is the person who has overall responsibility of
carrying out overall project in an organization (Heagney, 2016). They generally overlook the
initiation, planning, designing, monitoring, controlling and closure of different activity in the
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project. They used to be in touch with the project sponsor and different manger in the project
and used to make different strategy regarding the project.
Resource Manager: Resource manager is the one who used to look at availability of
resources in the project and make sure that there is optimum utilization of resources in the
project. They used to forecast the future requirement of resources in the project and used to
manage resources accordingly in the project. They also look at the human resources of
organization and on the basis of same used to plan them accordingly.
Team Leader: Team leader is the one who will be leading all the activity of the project
and used to report to the project manager of the project. Team leader in the organization used to
perform variety of different roles in the project i.e. Initiator, Model, Negotiator, Listener,
working member and also used to guide different team member in an organization. They used to
work as a mediator between team member and project manager (Kerzner, 2019).
Project Sponsor: Project sponsor is an individual in an organization, who used to have
overall accountability of project. They generally used to work as a business community and
provides a good hand of support at decision-making groups. They are the one who also used to
provide the monetary supports in the project.
Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Impact Rationale
Students High Students are the group who will be having good amount of
interest in the project. Reason behind the same is that main
motive of renovating the campus is to enhance the quality of
student experience. This will eventually help student in
enhancing the quality of learning as well.
Project
Manager
High Project manager is another stakeholder involved in renovation
of campus. As project manager is the one who has
responsibility to carry out the project. As they used to form
different plan and strategy which is followed by different level
of staff in the project. Also, they are the one who is responsible
for the outcome of the project in the organization (Fewings and
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Henjewele, 2019).
Project
Sponsor
Medium Sponsor are the another stake holder, whom will be having
good sort of interest in the renovation of campus in the
organization. As they are the one whom money will be invested
for the purpose of carrying out the project in the organization.
They will always look to have a good sort of the return on the
money invested by them on the project.
Project Team
member
Medium Project team member are the people dedicated to the project for
bringing out the outcome of the project. As project used to
provide employment to them, they used to have a moderate
level of interest in carrying out the project in an organization.
Facilities
Management
department
Medium They are the another stakeholder for this project, as they are
having interest of completing this project efficiently in the
university. As it is the responsibility of them top provide
support to the project manager and team in the University so
that they can carry out the different operation efficiently in the
organization.
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Gant Chart
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Network Diagram
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Meredith, J. R., Mantel Jr, S. J. and Shafer, S. M., 2017. Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Heagney, J., 2016. Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Kerzner, H., 2019. Using the project management maturity model: strategic planning for project
management. John Wiley & Sons.
Fewings, P. and Henjewele, C., 2019. Construction project management: an integrated
approach. Routledge.
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