PROJECT PLAN

Project Plan- Charity Event

Executive Summary

This paper demonstrates a real life project i.e. project plan for a charity event in the light of project management literature. It firstly gives the definition of a project and attempts to practice the desired project accordingly. It provides a brief background of the project and sets the project scope. It then shows Work breakdown structure and Critical Path Diagram of the project. The paper also gives the budget estimation and discusses the boundaries for the project. This finally analyzes risks of implementing the desired project. As a conclusion, the paper attempts to demonstrate the validity of the project comparing with the related literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

What is "Project"?4

Background Of The Project6

Project Scope6

Objectives6

Deliverables7

Milestones7

Technical Requirements8

Limits and Exclusions8

Project Plan8

Risk Assessment Plan11

Critical Success Factors11

Generic skills enhanced12

Specific skills12

Knowledge base13

Ethics and social responsibility13

Successes14

Stakeholder Analysis14

Conclusion15

Bibliography16

Appendix19

Work breakdown structure19

Activity List20

Gantt chart21

Critical Path Diagram22

Project Plan- Charity Event

Introduction

People have been planning and managing projects since the dawn of time. Whenever and wherever civilizations took root, there were projects to manage: buildings to erect, roads to pave, and laws to write. Without the advanced tools, techniques and methodologies we have today, people created project timelines, located materials and resources and weighed the risks involved.

Over time, people realized that the techniques for cost control, timeline development, resource procurement and risk management were applicable to a wide range of projects, whether erecting bridges, rotating crops or deciding how to govern themselves. These early ideas were the precursors to a set of management techniques that are today known as "modern project management".

Ever since entering the new millennium, savvy customers started demanding more and better products and faster services; time-to-market pressures force greater efficiency. Modern organizations have come to realize that project management provides many advantages in satisfying customer needs and surviving in intensive competition. A project of IBM such as developing business solutions for a large corporation or a project of a upgrading a photo shop in London so that it can provide better digital photo services to its customers... Regardless of their sizes or markets, all organizations today use project management in their any sort of projects.

What is "Project"?

As Keizner (2000) states that a project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to achieve a particular aim. Every project has a definite beginning and a definite end. While projects are similar to operations in that both are performed by people, both are generally constrained by limited resources, and both are planned, executed and controlled, projects differ from operations in that operations are ongoing and repetitive while projects are temporary and unique. Gray and Larson (2000) mention that all projects operates under time, cost, and quality constraints and also aim to achieve its objective successfully and in the best interest of the project stakeholders.

The desired project here in is upgrading and renovating a photo shop that operates in London within 135 days with a budget between £150,550 and £ 213,000. A photo shop basically provides services like developing and printing films, selling films and cameras. With this project the photo shop would like ...