EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (ABSTRACT)
The future
of our society and our planet depends on our young people. As such, it is
important to their overall development as good students and citizens that the
Georgetown Secondary School provides opportunities for them to understand their
surroundings. One such way is to construct a greenhouse.
Currently,
the Eastern Caribbean has been experiencing severe climatic conditions such as
hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding. Therefore, the stakeholders of the
Georgetown Secondary School (GSS) recognised the importance of our planet and
seek ideas to help mitigate the issue. This project management plan will help
to better define project objectives, success criteria, resources allocation and
in general, plan everything that is needed for the project success. In
addition, this project management plan will become the school’s asset that can
be used as the basis for future project plans.The general objective is to
develop a project management plan to manage the construction of a greenhouse at
the Georgetown Secondary School.
The specific
objectives were to: create a project charter that formally authorizes the
project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply
organizational resources to the project in order to produce the project
management plan; create a scope management plan to ensure that all works
required are included to successfully complete the project; create a schedule
management plan to support the development and management of a project schedule
that ensures the project is completed within the time constraints; create a
cost management plan to define the processes for developing and managing the
project budget that ensures the project is completed within the budget
constraints; develop a quality management plan to identify the quality
requirements for the project to ensure the results meet expectations for
approval within the time, cost and scope constraints; create a resource
management plan to ensure that all resources are identified and managed effectively
to complete the project within time, cost and scope constraints; develop a
communication management plan to ensure the timely and effective communication
of the project status and other key information; create a risk management plan
to identify and examine risks to the successful completion of the project and
develop plans to minimize the likelihood of the risks; develop a procurement
management plan to be used to obtain products, services or results required by
the project and to develop a stakeholder management plan to identify and
support all the project stakeholders to ensure effective stakeholder engagement.
The
methodologies used for this research were analytical, inductive-deductive,
observation and interviews. The data was analysed for the development of the
project management plan for a greenhouse.
The Project
Management results indicate that the GSS Greenhouse project has strength as well as weaknesses in certain
project management areas. Such as, leadership approach to agile and partial
training for employees. In addition, having explored the objectives outlined
previously, it can be concluded that rigorous financial
planning and promotion must be undertaken to ensure that funds are received for
the greenhouse to be a success. The Project Management Plan was developed using
the PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition. It
provided a new methodology for the project team to build a more comprehensive
project management plan for Georgetown Secondary School Greenhouse Project.
It is
recommended that the project team at GSS use the planning process and documents
developed during the development of the Project Management Plan for the
Construction of the Greenhouse as a basis for implementing a methodology for
similar projects in the future. Furthermore, the team at GSS should seek to
utilize and document management and storage systems, organize, store and create
a central location for project planning documents and future Organizational
Process Asset. Finally, the use of irrigation and greenhouse technologies
should be promoted to mitigate the impacts of climate change and to document
and disseminate lessons learnt to project beneficiaries.
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https://www.uci.ac.cr/Biblioteca/Tesis/PFGMAP2099.pdf
Estudiante:
Sybil
Sylvia Jennings
Tutor: Sophia Maria Crawford
Lector: Roger
Valverde
Lector: Carlos Manual
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