project week 7
Scenario: You are the project manager responsible for a new building construction in northern Virginia. The building is worth $500,000 and will have five bedrooms, a kitchen, landscaping, and a two-car garage to be completed in two years. This was agreed upon in a firm fixed contract. During the execution (construction) of the building, you realize that the cost of materials have gone up by 10%, and your schedule is behind by 90 days due to delays from county inspections and permit processes. You also notice that if you continue with the current cost rate and schedule rate that the total cost to complete this house would be $600,000 and delivered three months late.
Submit a three-page report explaining the reasons for these variances from your original project management plan and the proposed steps on how you are going to control the cost and schedule to achieve the contract threshold of $500,000 to be delivered in two years. Your plan must include the following:
Address identifications of impacted activities with their cost and schedule attributes, remembering to account for contingencies. Address explanations of the roles your project management team will play during the execution of your project management plan and how they will help you to control the issues that are arising during the project. At the end of your essay, add a separate section entitled, “Reflections on My Learning.” In this stand-alone section, summarize what you have learned in doing the research, reading the textbook, and reading the written lessons in regard to project management and how it impacted your decisions in this essay.
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Project Execution Challenges
The primary role of any project management process is always the identification of scope and consequent implementation of various plan processes to ensure that the execution process matches the needs of the clients. This explains the efforts by the management team to ensure that it implements different aspects of the project in line with the client specification, in addition to ensuring collaboration between different parties involved in execution to guarantee that limited challenges exist in the execution process.
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