Assessment Two: Project Report

Your group of two is required to explain the theory behind a Project Report, and to develop a Project Report based on the scenario below. You must draw heavily on the theory contained in the textbook and the PMBoK. You are expected to include all the relevant sections shown in the textbook, and model your tables on the relevant textbook exhibits.

There are two parts to your project:

1. The first section will discuss the theory behind each element of the project report (2.1 – 2.12). Using appropriately cited paraphrasing, you are expected to draw on the textbook description for each section. Please note that because there is such an emphasis on the textbook, all in-text citations MUST include the page numbers.

2. The second section of the assessment is your actual project report, based on the scenario below. The project report must follow the following sections:

2.1. WBS

2.2. RACI Chart

2.3. Schedule 1 – Gantt

2.4. Schedule 2 - AoN

2.5. Resource overloads

2.6. Budget

2.7. Progress Reporting (Timelines)

2.8. Progress Reporting (EVM)

2.9. Risk Management

2.10. Change Management

2.11. Stakeholder identification & communication

2.12. Project Closure

Beachside cottage

You have inherited an old beachside cottage. You have visited the site and made an inspection. The house needs a great deal of repair work to make it liveable. You have itemised the most important things that need to be done and think it will take a team of workers about 2 weeks to complete.

You plan to use this house for vacations and as a rental property through Airbnb. In fact, some of your work colleagues have already expressed interest in renting it soon as the property is finished. You have obtained a loan from the bank of $20,000 - that believe that will give you enough money to buy the supplies and have a spending budget with help from a local contractor and two apprentices. You yourself have committed to working 80 hours over your vacation to fix up the house, but you are unskilled at carpentry. Your vacation of two weeks starts on Monday the 1st of June, and you prefer to be present when the contractor is on site. Assume you, the contractor and his apprentices1 all can work up to 8 hrs per day, 5 days per week.

You expect that within 2 years of renting the property you will have earned enough money to repay the bank loan.

Continually ask yourself the question “when this is done, what else can I start now, or which things can I do at the same time?”.

Please note while working on this project, many assumptions are made that appear unrealistic, such as for example the wages, or constraints around who can do what. The main reason behind these decision has been to create an example that is easy for you to work on, while keeping it within small boundaries.

The following List of Most Important Fixes and Project Customer Trade-Off Matrix are provided to you as background to the project; they are part of the Business Case.

List of Most Important Fixes (not necessarily in order of schedule or priority):

1 Purchase supplies

2 Hang new curtains

3 Repair wooden shutters

4 Paint shutters

5 Hang shutters

6 Repair wooden porch

7 Repair wooden floor

8 Sand floor

9 Refinish (seal) floors, including porch

10 Paint ceilings

11 Paint doors

12 Paint interior walls

13 Paint exterior walls

14 Wash exterior windows

15 Wash interior windows