Week 8

TO: CEO

FROM: Michael Fleming, Operations Manager

DATE: May 4, 2020

SUBJECT: Project Management Plan

Background

Kibby and Strands is expanding due to increasing demand and reputation for reliable services. The building next doors leasing plan fell through, allowing Kibby and Strands to lease the building. We will move our Receiving department to the new building while expanding the production department to the old receiving area.

Project Plan

Product planning refers to everything you do to set up your project for success. This involves several steps in order to create a steady flow of work from start to finish an optimize the potential for downtime while the equipment is being moved, set up or not currently producing products. These steps are:

1. Onboard important stakeholders and the project team

a. Ensuring everyone involved knows the plan and their respective tasks.

2. End state goals

a. Defined goals that have been worked out by the project manager to keep the team on track and guide the process.

3. Create tasks with a task list

a. Smaller delivers unique to each person that when complied accomplish the end state goal.

4. Set priority

a. Setting a priority for each of the tasks a person is responsible for.

b. Ensures one person knows what must be done before they can start their task.

5. Create deadlines

a. By having a hard deadline for each task, a worker knows by which time they must be complete

b. Adding in a margin for error between tasks will be ensure end state goals are completed in a timely manner.

6. Set milestones

a. Milestone break chunks of work into smaller project phases and easier to understand as a whole.

7. Assign work

a. Assigning team members to appropriate level of work for their respective departments.

8. Project roadmap

a. Ensure the goals fit within the business strategy of the organization.

9. Monitor and report

a. Continuing to check up on the progress and make shifts where needed.

Network Diagram

Critical Path

A-B-E-G-H = 1+2+2+1 = 6 Days

A-C-G-H = 1+4+1 = 6 Days

A-D-F-G-H = 2+1+2+1 = 6 Days

Any of the activities would yield a completed time of 6 days using the critical path method. The only difference is the number of activities are passed through.

Reference

Stevenson, W. J. (2017). Operations Management (13th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.

Project Planning: Your Ultimate Guide

https://www.projectmanager.com/project-planning