project management
.0 Introduction : How a national iconic project turned into a hugely expensive and politically embarrassing fiasco? This report intends to answer this question by analyzing the reasons that led to delay and cost over run in construction of new Scottish Parliament Building . This report has utilized he researches available on the internet, auditors report and other articles available from varied sources. As instructed, no direct contact has been made to any organization involved in the project This report will start by introduction to the background of Scottish Parliament project and will continue by discussing the reason for delays and cost increases, role of the project management, strategic issues and at the end concluding the lessons learned from this project. The reason for selection of this project is that the Scottish Parliament building was estimated to be completed in £ 40 m but finished at over £400 m which is an interesting parameter to study. Fig1. Scottish Parliament Complex at Holyrood. 2.0 Background to the Scottish Parliament Project : After the referendum in 1997, Scottish parliament was established by Scotland Act 1998 as a devolved legislature. Following this, Donald Dewar, Secretary of State of Scotland decided to have a purpose built facility to house the Parliament in the city of Edinburgh. After having a turbulent journey to
Project management
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY 31272 - Project Management and the Professional Assignment 2 Semester 1, 2008 CELIA HO 10546404 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 ASSUMPTIONS 5 PART 1: DECOMPOSITION AND PLANNING 6 .1 ACTIVITY-BASED APPROACH 6 .2 MILESTONES 7 PART 2 ESTIMATING 8 2.1 INTRODUCTION 8 2.2 THE STAGES WHERE ESTIMATES ARE CARRIED OUT 8 2.3 THE BASIS OF SOFTWARE ESTIMATING 9 2.4 DISCUSSION THE ESTIMATING HOURS ACCORDING TO THE INDUSTRY NORMS 10 3. RISKS REPORTING 11 3.1 ESTIMATION ERROR 11 3.2 PLANNING ASSUMPTIONS AND UNFORESEEN RISKS 11 3.3 RISK ANALYSIS 12 CONCLUSION 13 TRACEABILITY TABLE 14 Executive Summary This report provides three parts in the project management for the TASS implementation. They are Decomposition Planning, Estimating and Risk Reporting. They were all carried out based on the analysis of the requirements and specification of the desired system and continue through to full system test and documentation tasks as indicated in the specification. Assumptions given have been taken into consideration during each stage and new ones were also generated to help the project management more reasonable and efficient. The work breakdown structure was used to decomposition the specification into five components and each component was further divided into sub-tasks and in turn detailed tasks one after another. Then PERT diagram was drawn to
product design
Product Design Coursework Introduction The aim of this report is to carry out a feasibility study for the development and the manufacture of a novel synthetic fibre to be used to make leisure clothing aimed at the spring and summer market, as asked by our board of directors. I will present a report addressing the project in terms of the Innovation Cycle for product development. This shall cover the definition and evaluation of the products, their form, market and manufacture in terms of the Product Innovation Major Steps, which include: Needs: What needs should the product fill? Ideas: What different products could satisfy these needs? Selection: What ideas are the most promising? Manufacture: How can we make the product in commercial quantities? Innovation Cycle: Product Innovation involves the introduction of a new good or service that is new or substantially improved from previous versions. Innovation is not just about new products, it is a whole new approach to business. The novel synthetic fibre that I will analyse is Nylon with main uses in clothing and footwear. Nylon is a commodity chemical as it is produced in high volumes and yields low profits and so it has a low added value. There is no large scale need for chemists and engineers in commodity chemicals. Needs: What needs should the product fill? The product should fill the customer's needs and to