PROJECT MANAGEMENT

House Renovation

Abstract

A house is man's paradise one earth. Many people like myself are very closely attached to their house. As far as my role in the house renovation project is concerned, I must state that I was the project manager. In a project as big as house renovation, it is imperative to understand that there is a need for human resources. This human resource is the responsible for carrying out the different tasks of the project. The research report discusses the various stages of this project of house renovation in line with my involvement in the project.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Roles of Management1

Gantt chart2

Work break down structure2

Man power resource3

Team building4

Risk management5

Operations Research5

Conclusion6

References7

House Renovation

Introduction

A house is man's paradise one earth and it is the people that make a house a home. Many people like myself are very closely attached to their house. They do not want to leave it or change it. My mother is like that too. So, when our family wanted to change the house, we decided with mutual consent that we will not move out (Heney, 2008, p. 36). Instead, we shall renovate our very beautiful home. Another reason, why we wanted to renovate the house instead of buying a new one is that we wanted to get it all done in a fraction of the cost.

As emotional as it may seem to renovate the house, it is also a very cumbersome task. It may seem simple at first but once you actually get down to performing the project, it is like you fix one thing here and another thing goes bad there (Esposito, 2009, p. 6A). The research report discusses the various stages of this project of house renovation in line with my involvement in the project.

Roles of Management

As far as my role in the house renovation project is concerned, I must state that I was the project manager. Right from the beginning of the project till the end, I have been actively involved in the planning and execution of the project. House renovation is a step wise process. However, these stages are quite vivid in that many activities may be going on at one point in time. I began with defining the scope of the project. I sat the family members down and asked them why we needed to renovate our house. We decided that there were two reasons for it (Lipsman, 2009, p. 16). One emotional other rational. The emotional reason was that this was my grandfather's house who recently passed away and my father did not want to sell it. There was no reason we could not sell the house and still be able to afford buying another house. In addition, renovating the house meant only a fraction of investment needed for a new house would be used.

Other than the role of the project manager, I was also looking after the project finances along with my father (Urell, 2007, p. 72). Organization of finances and keeping check on inflows and outflows was ...