...PROJECT PLAN – PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU) National Oncology Programme/National Oncology Centre Building F1, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Champs Fleurs, Trinidad and Tobago Tel: 868-663-5932, 662-1730/5285/4126 Fax: 868-645-7751 _____________________________________________________________________________ Project Plan Submitted By: Project Management Unit, MoH Creation Date: August 12, 2010 Last Revised: Version: 1.0 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 PURPOSE OF PLAN 2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 2 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 3 BUSINESS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 3 PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 3 SCOPE 3 SCOPE DEFINITION 4 INITIAL PROJECT RISK IDENTIFICTION 4 MILESTONES 5 ASSUMPTIONS 5 PROJECT ASSUMPTIONS 5 CONSTRAINTS 5 PROJECT CONSTRAINTS 5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPROACH 6 PROJECT TIMELINE 6 PROJECT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 6 ISSUE MANAGEMENT 7 COMMUNICATIONS METHODOLOGY 8 ATTACHMENTS/APPENDICES 9 INTRODUCTION Purpose of Plan The Project Plan provides a definition of the project scope, including the project’s goals and objectives. Additionally, the Plan serves as an agreement between the following parties: Project Sponsor, MoH Departmental/ Divisional Heads, Project Manager, PMU and other personnel associated with and/or affected by the project. Background Information By letter dated June 07, 2010, the Permanent Secretary...
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...CC5001 Project Planning and Project Management 2014-15 Coursework Report Structure The report structure relates to the scenario described and previously published; you are asked to plan (but not implement) a project for the CROSTIE and SCIRITUR systems for client James Chambers, MD of CCRS Ltd. You should prepare a report, addressing all sections and maintaining the sequence given below. Guidelines (which MUST NOT be exceeded, if it is exceeded marks WILL be deducted) for the maximum length of each section are specified; answers shorter than this that deal with the required issues are acceptable. The text should be in font size 12 (no smaller) and preferably Arial, although headings and sub-headings may be in a larger font, no more that 1.5 line spacing. The final version you submit must be submitted online via WEBLEARN. This work must be your own, its is strongly advised that you submit your work to the TURNITIN link on weblearn before you submit your work. Material from any other source must be clearly indicated where used and identified in the references section. You must not “cut-and-paste” material from other sources without indicating that it is a quotation. Quotations need to be of a short length and only used to support your work. Guidance is available from the library. You may submit your work earlier than this if you wish. Your assignment must be in the format and sequence specified in Parts A and B below, with a standard coursework cover sheet. If...
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...to planning the project Introduction: Planning is a key skill required throughout the life. The purpose of the planning is to find out how the project outcomes will be achieved successfully within both the required quality and timescale. Planning helps to work out the most effective way of reaching your target and prepare to overcome unexpected difficulties in advance. Planning develops the ability to prioritize the tasks. If I did not plan my project I would have not known what tasks I was required to do and what my time limit was, which could have lead ultimately to the failure of the project. The purpose of evaluating my performance in relation to planning is so that I can identify what I did well and what I did not do well. This will help me to carry out better planning in the future I hope that by improving my planning techniques. It will help me in all aspects of my life. Planning techniques used: I used five different techniques to enable me to produce final product. These techniques were action plan, summary action plan, mind maps, Gantt chart and critical path. These are techniques used by professional companies for their planning. The techniques I used were generally effective and helped me to a number of tasks and a final product by the final deadline with required quality. Action plan: To plan my project, first of all I and the other people in the group read the brief and identified the tasks that we would be required to do complete the project we...
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...Both scenario planning and project management are two great planning techniques. There are a few differences between the two. Project management is planning, organizing, securing, and managing assets to successfully complete goals and objectives of a project. Risks are one of the important factors to consider when dealing with project management. These risks often serve as reactive rather than proactive solutions. The main objective of project management is to make sure that all the project goals are achieved within the predetermined restraints. Typical constraints such as time and budget. The Project management cycle works in four stages: Define, plan, implement and close. Scenario planning is a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long term decisions. This is a good handy management tool. It consists of possibilities while taking into account the many forces surrounding business operations. Scenario planning deals with simulated and hypothetical future events and invites organizations to make contingency plans for such an event occurring. The main focus of scenario planning is to examine what could happen if a particular decision is implemented. This planning technique begins with defining all applicable factors that could lead to both positive and negative consequences. This could be the quality of production equipment or the company’s assets. These are internal factors. External factors would be the state of the economy, political situations...
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...A project planning problem A major project-planning problem was encountered in this project: a very low-level involvement of the end-users during the capture of the project requirements. Initially, the project team assumed that a model and a list of product requirements for a successful competitive intelligence system were relatively well known across the tourism industry. Therefore (and probably also as a result of a pressing need of rushing into implementation) not much effort was allocated on planning which were to be the functional characteristics of the system to be created –instead, the plan was to get an external team of consultants to ‘borrow’ this information from others. So, various sectors of the organization were left uninvolved in the scope management process. However, as it was later determined, the project’s main objective was not to implement a new ‘technology’, but in fact to perform a revolutionary change in the organization’s philosophy. The various line managers in particular were to have a crucial role in the new modus operandi, as they would be responsible for the analysis of the information collected, so it was crucial to listen to their views. Another negative consequence of not involving the project’s end-users in the planning process is team members’ resistance. When the members of an organization perceive a project as a mandatory change on their performance, opposition and internal battles arise. In conclusion, a higher involvement of...
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...Multicultural Project Planning Post War Iraq Introduction Multicultural project planning is a procedure of planning that gives consideration to all the cultures at the time the project is created. The project that includes a variation of diverse customs, concerning growth or conduct of the followers is referred as multicultural project. Although all participants in the project come from the same country, the project manager (PM) will still be dealing with several cultures and their outlooks and conducts (Rothman, 2001). The cultural dissimilarities lead the researchers to attempt in identifying several plans that would be appropriate to the project. The humanitarians look for the promotion of human welfare. When employed into a humanitarian organization, it is requested that such organization is extended into Iraq to help in the nation’s innovation struggle. Before the start of the project, there are three subjects that need to be examined. It is expected that part of the planning procedures is the existence of different ethnocentric tests. It is imperative for the researcher to be knowledgeable enough on the possible kinds of questions that will be given. Three Topics for Better Understanding I like to understand more about the facts of the battle, in what way people are affected by it and who are they, and also what is necessary from the organization to assist the nation’s renovation effort before starting the project. Learning the details about the war is the first that...
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...A Project Planning Document Based on "Promotion of Development and Confidence-Building in the Chittagong Hill Tracts DEV 612 Course Title: Project Appraisal and Management Submitted to: Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan Ph.D. (Wales), Post Doc. (Oxford) Professor of Development Studies, University of Dhaka; Country Representative, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Bangladesh Country Office; and Senior Commonwealth Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK & BRAC Development Institute (BDI) BRAC University Mohakhali, Dhaka Submitted by: JAGATBANDHU MAZUMDAR BRAC University Dept: BDI, Roll: 08262013 Semester: Spring 2011 Submission date: APRIL 09, 2011 Acronyms ADPAnnual Development Programme BCHWs Basic Community Health Workers CBConfidence Building CE Community Empowerment CFCommunity Facilitator CHT Chittagong Hill Tracts CHTDBChittagong Hill Tracts Development Board CHTDFChittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility DEXDirect Execution Project DMO District Medical Officer DPFC District Project Facilitation Committee ECEuropean Commission EOP Economic Opportunities EPI Expanded Programme for Immunization FGDs Focus Group Discussions GOBGovernment of Bangladesh ICB Institutional Capacity Building INGO International Non Government Organization JSSJana Sanghati Somiti LCGLocal Consultative Group LGICB Local Governance and Institutional Capacity Building MHFP Ministry of Health...
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...be an 11 store operation in no time and one of the southeast’s largest independent retailers, and is still owned and operated by Gary Houser (Houser Shoes, 2007). In 2000, Houser and his daughter Beth Houser created a shared vision for another chain of stores named GB Shoe Warehouse, which is also one of the southeast's largest shoe stores. Houser has a total of 150 people employees and embraces the strategy of making stakeholders feel special and realizes that its staff that is the backbone of its existence and people have faces and names not just numbers. Social Network Building the first step to building a social network is identifying those on whom the project depends for success (Gray & Larson, 2006). And that's why employees at all the Houser Shoes stores are friendly and welcoming. Houser has a managing project reward system that assigns the leadership team the responsibility of managing the reward system that encourages stakeholder’s performance and extra efforts (Gray & Larson, 2006). The retail fashion industry is con-steadily changing, Houser wants to maintain its reputation in providing all brand names at prices up to 75% off regular department store prices(Houser Shoes, 2007). Houser’s concept is to provide quality shoes to his customers during many years of expansion. Houser has a total of 16 retail stores is located throughout Tennessee, West Virginia and the Carolinas (Houser Shoes, 2007). Houser stores are facing...
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...5. Project Planning and Feasibility Studies Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. Initially, the project scope is defined and the appropriate methods for completing the project are determined. Following this step, the durations for the various tasks necessary to complete the work are listed and grouped into a work breakdown structure. The logical dependencies between tasks are defined using an activity network diagram that enables identification of the critical path. Float or slack time in the schedule can be calculated using project management software. Then the necessary resources can be estimated and costs for each activity can be allocated to each resource, giving the total project cost. At this stage, the project plan may be optimized to achieve the appropriate balance between resource usage and project duration to comply with the project objectives. Once established and agreed, the plan becomes what is known as the baseline. Progress will be measured against the baseline throughout the life of the project. Analyzing progress compared to the baseline is known as earned value management. The inputs of the project planning phase include the project charter and the concept proposal. The outputs of the project planning phase include the project requirements, the project schedule, and the project management plan. Feasibility studies...
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...Project planning in teams is an essential part of team dynamics. At the University of Phoenix on line collage the students are placed in groups of three to six members. After being placed in these groups team members are required to fill out a team charter. Team chartering is the procedure by which a team meets at the beginning of its process (in this case, a University of Phoenix course) to describe its mission or task, set its goals, secure commitment by members to the achievement of those goals, make its plans, and allocate its resources. It is a competency that is as important to ensuring the success of workplace teams as it is for your University of Phoenix Learning Team. By learning this valuable skill, you [SIC] greatly increase the likelihood that your team will reach its objectives in an effective and an efficient manner (University of Phoenix, 2002). After team members finish there team charter they are put to work planning there project. Most of the time, the project that the team will be working on is laid out. This is so the team knows what they are writing about. The team then divides the work up it to sections so that everyone in the team has some responsibility. Even though project planning in teams students have different opinion , project planning in teams is an essential part of team dynamics because teams are able to split the work up into sections so that one person does not do the whole paper and teams are able to work together to form a stronger...
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...biggest challenge for the project manager is to develop an integrated planning and control tool. Critically discuss this statement with the aid of practical examples. To develop an integrated planning and control tool is the biggest challenge for a Project Manager because of many uncertainties in any project. One of the most vital issues is ensuring that all the planning steps are adhered to, namely, the Project Charter; Feasibility Study; Scope Management; Build Method; Execution Strategy; Work Breakdown Structure; Organisational Breakdown Structure; Critical Path Method; Schedule Barchart; Procurement Schedule; Resource Histogram; Budgets and Cash flow; Communication, Project Quality, Risk Management and Baseline Plan. Failure to do this could have a detrimental effect on the other role players of the project team and this could upset the course of action in the control phase of the project. The Project Manager has his hands full and has a major responsibility to ensure the project is a success, otherwise failure is eminent. Due to the limited answering space available, I will concentrate on the Baseline Plan because according to Rory Burke, “it may be considered as a portfolio of documents which outline how to achieve the project objectives... and guide the project through the execution and project control phase.” and according to Michele McDonough , “scheduling a baseline plan is something project managers should have in place before a project goes forward from the "drawing...
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...Project Planning 1 Seitz Corp Scott T. Walker Keller Graduate School PM586: Project Management Professor Gary Gross Introduction In January 2008 the board of directors of SEITZ Corporation authorized the expenditure of $2,750,000 to construct a new plant in Huntsville Alabama that was to be completed and delivering product by 2010. Janis Clark was selected to be the project manager. Janice was given access to several key resources within the company including functional elements of the corporations Midwest plant and headquarters. She was also assigned key individuals Steve Pokorski, the Vice President of Operations, and Joe Downs, the Director of Plant Engineering. It must also be noted the Steve and Joe had submitted alternate proposals that were rejected. Clark immediately called her team together and set forth with plans to kick off the project. They first started by establishing and organizations structure and placing internal and external requisitions for employees with technical skills. Based on the posturing of Clark and her team there appeared to be some arrogance in their attitude in regard to promotion and location of the project. A preliminary list of task was established; a preliminary product line was established. Also expectations for an early completion of the plant were set in place. And it appeared all activities were set in place or in motion. Janice and her team were just about to schedule their kick off meeting...
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...Uncertainty on Project Planning Process Project across most industries face huge uncertainty as regard to complex, ambiguous and dynamic environment (external environment) which can have impact on the project planning process. Similarly, projects are becoming larger and more ambiguous which make the execution and realisation of project complexity to be on the increase therefore increase our internal complexity. (Azim, 2010) established that project are increasingly being characterized as complex across most industries and sectors. (Vidal et al. 2011, p. 719) define project complexity as the property of a project which make it difficult to understand, foresee and keep under control, even when given reasonably complete information about the project system. Besner and Hobbs project (2012) established that size, complexity and together with risk (known unknown) and uncertainty (unknown unknown) are path of project characteristics to be considered in selection of project management toolsets to be adopted in their management approach. Each of the project classification approaches attempt to address interaction between complexity and uncertainty and the impact this interaction has on project planning process. The key principles for addressing complexity in the planning process. The complexity of project has always been there which make the need to execute and bring realisation of project complexity on the increase. Therefor the key principles of project complexity in the...
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...Project across most industries face huge uncertainty as regard to complex, ambiguous and dynamic environment (external environment) which can have impact on the project planning process. Similarly, projects are becoming larger and more ambiguous which make the execution and realisation of project complexity to be on the increase therefore increase our internal complexity. (Azim, 2010) established that project are increasingly being characterized as complex across most industries and sectors. (Vidal et al. 2011, p. 719) define project complexity as the property of a project which make it difficult to understand, foresee and keep under control, even when given reasonably complete information about the project system. Besner and Hobbs project (2012) established that size, complexity and together with risk (known unknown) and uncertainty (unknown unknown) are path of project characteristics to be considered in selection of project management toolsets to be adopted in their management approach. Each of the project classification approaches attempt to address interaction between complexity and uncertainty and the impact this interaction has on project planning process. The key principles for addressing complexity in the planning process. The complexity of project has always been there which make the need to execute and bring realisation of project complexity on the increase. Therefor the key principles of project complexity in the project planning process are to understand...
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...OPS 571 WEEK 4 PROJECT PLANNING STRUCTURES A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=ops-571-week-4-project-planning-structures Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description OPS 571 Week 4 Project Planning Structures Project Planning Structures Projects have different structures. A pure project structure uses a self-contained team to work on a project full time, and the project manager has full authority over the entire project (Jacobs & Chase, 2011). Secondly, a functional project coincides with the functional division of the company. Therefore, it is very likely that a team member will work on several projects at any given time (Jacobs & Chase, 2011). Finally, the project can be set-up as a matrix project. It is a blend of both the functional and pure project structures. The project manager is held responsible for the completion of the project, and upon completion, the project team will most likely have another job in the queue (Jacobs & Chase, 2011). According to Jacobs & Chase (2011), the ability to plan, direct, and control resources define the roles of project management. For example, people, equipment and material to meet the technical, cost, and time constraints of the project. All in all, there are many different approaches and processes of project management. However, most are illustrated by the traditional process of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. The...
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