PROJECT PLANS

MGT $3025$

INSTRUCTIONS

Length: minimum $1200-1400$ maximum words.

Read the following case study and answer the following questions.

Of the projects which are being considered which one would you select and why.

a$)$ Design a selection criteria template $($the template is not included in the word count$),$ fill in your template using the projects in the case study $($marks $30\%).$

b$)$ Justify the criteria you have used in you template. $($marks $30\%).$

From your completed template select the most appropriate project and outline a definition of the project you have selected $($marks $40\%).$ This includes:

Project Definition

Project Benefits

Constraints Summary

From your completed template select the most appropriate project and outline a definition of the project you have selected $($marks $40\%).$ This includes:

Project Definition

Project Benefits

Constraints Summary

Project Organisation

Project Phase

Project Plan $($irmludes detailed work break down structure$)$

Project Budget$-$Detailed costings

Critical Success Factors

Milestones

Quality Targets

Risk and Contingency Plan

Project Performance Reporting and Change Control

Communications and Plan

THE CASE STUDY

Rosa Patel is the owner and president of a midsize pharmaceutical company based within the M$25$ region. The company produces drugs for treatment concerned with sports and other physical injuries and illness. The company employs $300$ staff and has a turnover of over $52$ million a year. At a meeting with staff in March she tells her managers that company profits for the year are expected to be $5,70,000$ more than anticipated. She tells them she would like to reinvest this additional profit by funding additional projects within the company that will either increase sales or reduce costs. She asks her three key managers to get together tedevelop a prioritized list of potential projects and then to meet with her td "sell" her on their ideas. She mentions that they should not assume the funds will be divided equally among the three of them. She also mentions that she is willing to put all of the funds into just one project if it seems appropriate.

Suki Mandela, Manager of Product Development, has had a team of scientists working on a new prescription drug. This effort has been taking much longer than expected. She is worried that larger firms are working on a similar prescription drug and that those firms might get it to the marketplace first. Her team has not made any major breakthroughs yet, and some tests are not producing the expected results. She knows this is a risky project but feels that she can't stop it now.

Suki believes the company's long$-$term growth depends on this new drug, which can be sold worldwide. She has tried to be optimistic at staff meetings about progress on this development project, but she knows that Rosa is growing impatient and that her peers believe she should have terminated the project after the initial tests were negative. Suki would like to use the additional funds to accelerate the development project. She would hire a highly respected scientist from a larger firm and buy more sophisticated laboratory equipment.

Indra Roy, Manager of Production, has been with the company only six months. Her early observation is that the production flow is very inefficient. She believes this is the result of poor planning when additions were made to the plant over the years as the company grew. Indra would like to form several employee teams to implement a better layout of the equipment in the plant. She thinks this would increase plant capacity while reducing costs. When Indra mentions this idea to some of her supervisors, they remind her that when Rosa $\text{'}$s father ran the business, Rosa was in charge of production, and she was responsible for the design of the current plant layout. They also remind Indra that Rosa is not a fan of using employee teams. She believes production employees are paid to do their jobs, and she expects her managers to be the ones to come up

with and implement new ideas.

Sunil Aresnal, Manager of Operations, is responsible for the company's computers and information systems as well as its accounting operations. Sunil believes that the company's computer systems are outdated, and as the business has grown, the older computer equipment has been unable to handle the volume of transactions. He thinks that a new computer system could keep better track of customer orders, reduce customer complaints, and issue more timely invoices, thus improving cash flow. The employees in Sunil's department joke about their outdated computers and put pressure on Sunil to buy newer equipment. Rosa has told Sunil in the past that she is not interested in spending money on new computers

Note: my prefered selection is Sunil Arsenal's project and for the selection criteria template please provide $10$ selection criteria on why the upgrade of new software systems and computers is the best