EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (ABSTRACT)
The proposed Castries Market Redevelopment Project involves the redevelopment of a vendors’ market to include newly built vending stalls, a state of the art food court, high-end air conditioned restaurants, a craft market, a box park, a viewing tower, an entertainment area, meat and fish depots, duty-free shopping boutiques and other amenities. There are approximately ten (10) construction companies in Saint Lucia. Fresh Start Construction, which is a locally-owned construction company in Saint Lucia with approximately ten (10) years of operational experience, was contracted to redevelop the Castries Market. The corresponding contract was signed on July 1, 2020.
The company has a diverse portfolio which encompasses civil infrastructure, residential building, commercial building and pipeline/communication infrastructure. Despite the wealth of experience, Fresh Start Construction required the application of formal project management practices to successfully execute the project.
Fresh Start Construction needed to utilize a more comprehensive project management tool such as a Project Management Plan. The purpose of the tool was to provide an all-encompassing reference point of what had to be achieved by the project, how it was to be achieved, who would be involved, how it would be reported and measured and how information would be communicated. The Project Management Plan was used as a reference for any decision that had to be made on the project and for the clarification of uncertain areas.
The general objective was to develop a Project Management Plan framed within the standards of the Project Management Institute to manage the redevelopment of a vendors’ market.
The specific objectives were: to create a Project Charter that described the project, its rationale, its goals, the main stakeholders and granted the project manager with the authority to assign resources to project activities; to create a Scope Management Plan that included all the work required to successfully complete the project; to create a Schedule Management Plan that defined how the project schedule would be managed throughout the project life cycle to ensure the project was completed within the specified time frame; to create a Cost Management Plan that outlined the project’s estimation, allocation and control of costs for the required resources to complete all project activities within the budget constraints; to develop a Quality Management Plan that described how quality would be managed throughout the project life cycle to ensure that results met stakeholder expectations within time, cost and scope constraints; to develop a Resource Management Plan that provided guidance on how resources would be categorized, allocated, managed and released effectively to complete the project within time, cost and scope constraints; to create a Communications Management Plan that defined the communication requirements of the project and how information would be disseminated in a timely and effective manner; to create a Risk Management Plan that identified and examined specific risks and developed risk mitigation strategies that minimized the likelihood of the risks and ensured the successful completion of the project; to develop a Procurement Management Plan that described how the goods, services or results required for the project would be obtained, and to create a Stakeholder Engagement Plan that ensured that each stakeholder was involved in project decisions and execution throughout the project life cycle according to their needs, interest and impact.
The methodology used for the research was analytical. The key sources used to collect and collate information included A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Sixth Edition and interviews which were organized with key personnel from the client and performing organization. The information was analyzed to develop each subcomponent of the subsidiary plans utilized to create the Project Management Plan for a Vendors’ Market.
The Project Management Plan developed using the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition provided a new methodology for the project team to create a more comprehensive project management plan for a project of great significance as the Redevelopment of the Castries Market. It also helped to improve the manner in which the company would manage the project.
It is recommended that the project team at Fresh Start Construction consider the use of the planning process and the documents created during the development of the Project Management Plan for the Redevelopment of the Castries Market as a foundation for implementing a methodology for similar projects in the future. Furthermore, it is imperative that the team at Fresh Start Construction endeavour to utilize management and storage systems to organize, store and create a centralized location for project planning documents and future Organizational Process Assets.
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Estudiante: Ruan
Nadmi Branch
Tutor: James Pérez
Lector: Carlos
Brenes Mena
Lector: Róger Valverde
