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Introduction

Project

Project is an opportunity through which a business institution through a collaborative effort of personnels and enterprises make a business transaction. It consists of series of task and is completed in a sequences, it can also be said as a set of output that needs to be achieved in order to reach a particular goal or objective

Project management

The process of a project is generally a temporary activity. The management of the project means the application of the knowledge, tools and the skills to conduct the activities of the project so that the requirements and goals of the project are met.

Project life cycle

The most important past of the project is to properly carry out the entire project for sole purpose to meet the objective. All the projects start with a planning process and ends after its completion and handover to the customer and stakeholders. Generally a project has nearly 4 phases . the first phase being the initiation phase followed by the planning phase and then the implementation phase and lastly the closure.

Phase 1: Project initiation phase

Stakeholders- the stakeholders to this project plan are mainly the students and the client for whom the project is carried out that is the University of Sunderland London campus. Other than this the stakeholders to the project are the investors, the employees and workers involved in the project and the companies associated with the project. The technological aspect is overseen by a company and another company is related to install a proper network system for the whole system to work.

Clients and the audience

The clients in the project are the management group of the University of Sunderland London campus. The Sun-Project 20X20 is initiated for refurbishing the campus building of the college. The target audience for the project is the students and the faculty members of the university

Scope

The Sun-Project 20X20 is one of the upcoming projects the main tasks related to the project is to refurbish classrooms and build halls. The client for the project is University of sunderland London campus. The main activities in the project is to refurbish the classrooms and lecture halls, implement new technology and new softwares for modern learning. A project management software to be installed in twenty of the workstations and 5 dedicated workstations to be built for helping job search. The budget for the project is estimated around 8 million euro and the time period for the project is around two years.

Aims

The aim of the project work is to provide new and high-quality infrastructure to the campus of the university. Another major aim is to provide state of the art design and new technological experience in the teaching with quality and access to modern facilities. Completing the project within the stipulated budget and providing the minimum and necessary commitments made

Objectives

● To complete all the task as planned with the customer

● To complete the project within the given time frame

● To complete the project within the forecasted budget

● To maintaining the standard and quality required for the project

Timescales

Structure

Phase 1 Initiation

Phase 2 Planning

Phase 3 Implementation

Phase 4 Closure

Phase 2: Project planning and Phase Review of Sun-Project 20X20

Resource plan

Project Name: Sun-Project 20X20

Roles Table

Role /Title	Description
Project Manager	The project manager plans, organizes, tracks and controls various activities. The manager also leads the activities and initiates the development from one phase to the other. They also ensure that the project is completed within the budget and the project is delivered within the time frame. The project manager mainly oversees the management of the team and leads the project along with developing and maintaining the project plan.
Project Sponsor	The project sponsor helps in allocating local funds and resources to the project manager. The main role of the sponsor is to bring in resources, personnel according to the plan and requirement to match the goals and objectives of the project plan
Technological development team	The technological development team in this project shall develop new and modern ways through educational interaction. The campus could be provided with the best possible ways to interact with the students
Construction team	The construction team in the project would help in making meeting the construction requirement and the specific task to reduce the noise inside the campus building

RACI Chart (Roles and Responsibilities)

Activity Categories	Project Manager	Sponsor	Technological development team	Construction team
Project planning	R/A	I	C/I	C/I
Quality management	R/A	R/A	R/A	R/A
Refurbishment	R/A		R/A/C/I	R/A/C/I
Noise cancellation	R/A		R/A/C/I	R/A/C/I
Software management	R/A	R/A/C/I	R/A/C/I	C/I

Work Breakdown structure

Refer to Appendix 2

Financial plan

Refer to Appendix 3

Quality plan

The project management team is responsible for the quality of the work and supplies. The project management team will regularly participate to review the improvement of the quality checking activities. Specific responsibilities according to the roles are revised below

Role	Quality Assurance Responsibility
Project sponsor	● Assuring the availability of the required resources ● To ensure the quality of the resources are maintained ● Ensuring the quality requirement is checked and upgraded by the project manager
The technological development team and the construction team (division manager and unit manager )	● Encourage the staffs to maintain the quality of work ● Encourage the department to work in the development of improvement of quality service and products
Project manager	● To review, check and approve the quality of the resources and the work done ● To include quality assurance activities in the project planning to ensure the quality is maintained overall ● To improve and evaluate the quality of the product as and when required
Project Owner	● Feedback on the quality assurance report and plan ● Offer inputs while quality checking activities
Team members	● Providing feedback and consultation on the quality plan, criteria of the project.