Analysis of Transport for London Road Project: A Management Plan

This report provides a comprehensive project management plan for Transport for London's road construction project, focusing on creating greener, safer, and more attractive roads while improving the bus network. The report includes a network diagram to analyze the shortest project completion ti...Read More

Project Management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Project management plan.............................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Network Diagram........................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Stakeholder analysis....................................................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
Work Breakdown Structure and Organisational Structure..........................................................8
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................9
Risk Analysis...............................................................................................................................9
TASK 6..........................................................................................................................................10
Quality expectation and quality specification............................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Project manager has the responsibility to manage all activities related to complete their essential
projects as soon as possible. They are responsible for managing workforce and other essential
resources related to project (Silva, Pereira and Magano, 2021). The following report covers
project management plan of Transport for London which aims to construct greener, safer and
attractive roads at their aimed areas. They are also given the project of improving the entire bus
network in London. The following file also covers network diagram of company which help
them to analyse shortest time to complete the project, stakeholder analysis to analyse which
stakeholder have how much power and interest. This report also covers organisational structure,
work breakdown structure, chart of risk analysis and quality expectation and specification and
the measurement activities to control the event.
Main Body
TASK 1
Project management plan
About the case-
The following case is all about project management where a company named Transport for
London has received a road construction project which further consists of constructing greener,
safer and attractive roads for visitors. After completing the project they are going to conduct a
event for the happiness of completing their project effectively.
Reasons for the road project-
 To make roads attractive for the visitors which further maintain the beauty of London.
 To create a great system for the bus networks across the London.
 To make their roads greener will depict that the company is aiming to perform their
project by keeping in mind about the concept of sustainability.
Expected benefits-
 Making roads with sustainability by keeping it greener will help to protect the
environment safe.
 Making effective roads will help to prevent road accidents and injuries of drivers.
 Making attractive road will help London to attract travellers which further help them to
develop their foreign exchange rate.

Expected demerits-
 High funds are required to construct good quality of roads which are greener and
attractive for visitors. Hence, high level of creativity is also required.
 It might be possible that road travellers will face issues to travel effectively due to the
construction.
Risk-
 Achievement of sustainability can be effected with the aim of constructing safe and
attractive roads while conducting this project.
 Maintenance cost can be higher than expected or budgeted plan.
 It might be possible that there will be a increase in the chance of conflicts between
stakeholders of company regarding their decision making process and sharing of power.
TASK 2
Network Diagram
Network diagram help a company to analyse all those activities which they are going to conduct
to achieve their aim. It will help the company to create connections within all those activities
which will help them to achieve their aim to complete specific project (Perkins, Jugdev and
Mathur, 2018). In context of project Management Company, network diagram will help them to
decide the shortest distance of completing their project within minimum time. It consists of
starting date and ending date of project which help employees to manage their time to complete
the project within the time frame which is decided. Network diagram of Transport for London
Company is given below-

From the above network diagram it is evaluated that there are various kind of activities which is
included in completing a project. The shortest time is evaluated through blue line given in the
above mentioned diagram which evaluated that minimum 116 days are required to complete the
project effectively and efficiently.
TASK 3
Stakeholder analysis
It is essential for a company to conduct stakeholders’ analysis to analyse how much power
should be given to which stakeholder according to their investment and interest in the completion
of project (Sońta-Drączkowska and Mrożewski, 2020). Stakeholder of companies is allowed to
make good decisions for the project because they also help the company to provide appropriate

fund for the completion of project. Their good decision making activities are essential for them
to get high returns on their investment. Audience, investors, Town Hall Committee and
participants are few stakeholders of the company.
Town Hall Committee- They is the one who have high power and low interest within
the project completion. They are given high power because their hall is selected for the event and
their interest in completion of project is low because they are only interested for organising
event.
Investors- They are the individual who provide funds and other essential resources for
the company to complete their project. They are having high power as well as high interest. They
are given high power because they provide adequate funds for the company and they are
interested in the completion of project successfully because they expect high returns on their
investment (Szreder, Walentynowicz and Sycz, 2019).
Audience- They are the invitees for the event which are given low power and have least
interest. They are not given high power because of their knowledge; they are having no
appropriate knowledge for making good decision related to project management.
Organisers and participants- They are having low power and high interest in the
project of company because they are then one who organize events successfully after completion
of project that’s why they are having high interest in completing the project.

TASK 4
Work Breakdown Structure and Organisational Structure
Work break down structure helps to divide complex tasks in easier ways by analysing those tasks
which are essential to complete first to achieve organisational goal. Here, work is divided into
smaller components and divided to employees related to their specialization. This will help the
company to specifically focus on each component of the task carefully so that they will not miss
any component of work which can impact badly upon project management. Work Breakdown
structure of Transport for London is given below-
Organisational structure plays an important role in completion of project. Here, organisational
structure will help employees to analyse to whom they are going to report and to whom they are
going to order for the completion of task (Dasović, Galić and Klanšek, 2020). Hence, it will help
to analyse roles and responsibilities of employees well so that they will focus on their task

effectively and report to their seniors in case of any requirement or reporting task. Organisational
structure of Transport for London is mentioned below-
TASK 5
Risk Analysis
It is essential for every company to analyse risk related to their project and event so that they can
take some corrective measures to mitigate those risks as soon as possible before it impacts badly
upon the company’s success (Lauren and Schreiber, 2018). Here, are few risks and the way of
mitigating them for conducting event successfully-
no. Risk Effect Possibility Mitigation
1 Financial Risk high low Preparing a budget and ensuring that all the
activities will be conducted within that
particular budget will help the company to
mitigate financial loss. On the other hand,
consulting to financial experts for preparing
budget will help the company to conduct
their activities effectively.
2 Managing heavy high High It is essential for the event manager to

crowd at event venue manage the crowd of event effectively. For
this company must make sure that they will
aware the event manager about estimated
number of crowd for their event. This will
help them to manage sitting areas
effectively for the crowd.
3 Weather low high It might be possible that the bad weather
will impact the event indirectly. It impacts
indirectly because venue place is well
maintained. Hence, bad weather will not
impact the audience inside the hall but the
guest which is travelling from other place
to reach the venue can be impacted badly.
This can be mitigated by deciding venue
date after predicting good weather by
weather reports.
TASK 6
Quality expectation and quality specification
It is essential for every event manager to organise such type of event which will fulfil
their audience expectations. Every audience expect that the event will meet their expectation and
they are having high expectation for cleanliness of the hall, good musical instruments, good
lightening and appropriate sitting area (San Cristóbal and et. al., 2019). Here, event manager can
manage and control the activities during the event for making it attractive. It is suggested that the
event will get promoted well on social media and they can also send the information about event
personally to their invitees to generate interest for the event. Providing appropriate security to the
event to control any conflict or unwanted activities by between audiences is essential to fulfil
audience expectation.

Conclusion
It is concluded that project management is one of the effective task for a construction company
where they can manage their each task effectively. Having network diagram will help company
to depict which route will be opted to complete the task faster than other way. Work breakdown
structure will help to divide tasks into smaller components to make it easy to conduct well. On
the other hand, organisational structure also plays an effective role in managing the project well.
Analysing risk for the company will help them to make corrective measures to mitigate them.
Meeting the expectation of audience in the event is the main aim of companies.

References
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