PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT

Project Management Assignment



Project Management Assignment

Case Background:

Yorkshire House Foods is engaged in the production of cooked and processed meats, including sausages, black pudding meat rolls and joints. Manufacturing is carried out on one site employing approximately 184 persons. Customers tend to be small and diverse as opposed to supplying a few major retailers. The company is hoping to expand and work has started on a large additional unit to be built on the same site in order to increase the manufacturing capacity of meat products.

The company currently supplies the food service and wholesale food sectors and is considered to be in the top 12 cooked meat and sausage suppliers in the UK and in the top 3 suppliers who are still privately owned. We estimate that last year the GB pre-pack chilled sausage market was worth around £350 million and the cooked and sliced meat market to be worth £900 million Yorkshire House Foods currently have about 1% of this market

The project described here will run alongside the £2 million site investment programme to increase production capacity by a further 50%. Additionally information requirements gathered as part of the programme will feed into a later software acquisition and implementation project.

As a result of these projects it is planned that within the next 5 years turnover would grow to £20 million with a pre tax profit to £1 million. This represents a 48% growth factor which is not unreasonable to expect given the nature of the projects proposed. Growth will be achieved by increasing market share in the food service and wholesale markets, and by penetration into the retail food sector.

.

Chapter I: Introduction

If you are a task manager, and you suppose that the rudimentary approach to project management in your association is not perfect, what can you do to convince senior management of the benefits of taking up a distinct model? Can you believe your own intuition and experience? Where can you look for clues that there are better ways of close to the administration of projects over an organization?

One place to start is by conversing to practitioners in distinct organizations, or even in distinct commerce, and this paper recounts one part of empirical research that was conceived to supply somebody inquiring these inquiries with some kind of a “road map”. But is it likely to verify fruitful? Does the publications on project administration propose that this might be a shrewd theme to study empirically?

Modern task management has its roots in the second world war, and evolved in a limited number of technology based commerce during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. More recently, the demand for task managers has mushroomed, as task working has increased spectacularly in a broad variety of commerce.

One might sensibly expect “industries of origin” to have developed a more sophisticated form of task management than industries such as Pharmaceutical Research and Development which taken up project administration disciplines and practices somewhat later. But did they?

Are these “industries of origin” in some way more ...