When project managing, there are four elements which you need to follow these are written below with a sort explanation in what they mean:
Labour – This would be the people who are involved in the project.
Enterprise – This would be the idea that you have.
Land – This is where would you have the project.
Capital – This is how much money you have to spend on the project.
The people who are involved in the project, who are the stakeholders? For example if we where going to build a new car park for Blackburn college, who would the stake holders be? Listed below are some of the stakeholders:
-Staff
-Students
-Council
-And the residents that live near Blackburn college (This would be because when the car park is being built, there will be nowhere for the students and staff to park, so they would be parking on a residential area, where homeowners normally would park their cars)
-Construction Staff (Actors change makers)
The peoples point of view is very important when project managing, this is so that for students (for example) it would mean easier access to the college, and places to park for those who own a car and drive.
For the staff it would mean easier access to the college, which means that they don’t have to find a residential area to park, or a place far away for them to park but then walk to the college which may be very time consuming especially if they’re teaching and need to be at a lesson.
For the council, their point of view would be very important. It would mean that would they want a car park near the college when they have a car park in the town center, and would they want that much work going on making noise with residential areas nearby, which means that the council would have to evaluate whether it is a good idea to build another car park, it would also mean that the councils view point would be very important to the project.
You would need to know the project specification, the specification for a new car park for the Blackburn college would be 5 storey, valet parking, free, free WiFi, charge points for electric cars. The owner decides on the levels of resources, which would mean that they would decide whether or not it would be a 5 storey car park, or whether it would have free valeting. It would depend on whether the owner would want that, if they didn’t it would be because of time, people and the amount of money it is.
The people who would be accountable if the project wouldn’t be as good as expected would need to discussed, for example, if the project wasn’t living up to expectations then who would be to blame?
When project managing you cannot have all three choices between being cheap, quick and good. It either has to be:
A: A good quick job (Won’t be cheap)
B: A cheap good job (Won’t be quick)
c: A quick job cheap (Won’t be good)
Project planning – When project planning you would always try and aim to get all three of the choice (fast, good, cheap). You would need to specify the size you would like the project to be, for example using the Blackburn college car park, how many storeys would you like the car park to be? Would you like it be really wide? You would also need to specify the timescales of the job, how long do you think it would be to create the storey car park?. You need to ask yourself these questions when project planning. You would also need to ask yourself if you would split the job in phases, and who controls the budgets and resources? What are your resources going to be? And whats your budget going to be? All these different questions you need to ask yourself before you start your project, and the most important you need to decide who would take the fall if the project went wrong? Who’s accountable for what happened with the project?
Information – The information which you would need must be accurate, up to date, valid/verifiable for example, is the information reliable which you have collected for the project?
For information you would also need to think what category would the project fall in? Would it be secondary information that you have collected or would it be primary (Have you gone and got all the information by yourself). If the information is secondary, you have to ask is it reliable information? Is it detailed?.
For the level of detail, is the information detailed enough for it to be used, if not why is it not detailed? Is the information accurate in what it says? For example, if you where building the Blackburn college car park, would information on the size of the car park is it accurate? Has it got measurements which are very precise, this would make it a reliable piece of information for the project.
You would need to consider the land/place where the project is taking place. Has the settlement been aggreed that the land is now being used for a new car park, or is there an office which you can use to store the information, where you can build the car park and plan the project. You would also need to consider, is there enough room to store the equipment you need to make the project reality, for example if you have a cement mixer, where would you store that equipment? If you didn’t have any storage to place any of the equipment, you would need to find a place which would cost money and delay the project.
Capital (Money) – This is where all the budgeting would happen. You would need to pay for the labour of the people who are working on the project for example, the builders who are building the car park. You would need to consider the materials in which you would need to make a multi storey car park. Would you need to make an investment for land or other fixed assets? You would also need to pay for extra storage to store all of your equipment.
Emilia Holmes 