Question

Consider a project of moving hospital apartments from crowded, filled with street mongers area to a new quite and safe location outside the city center.

1. Who were the stakeholders in this project?
2. What was the overall project objective (especially in terms of the relative importance of cost, quality and time) ?
3. Were there any resource constraints? Explain
4. Looking back, how could you have managed the project better?

Answer 1

I have been part of moving apartment. We can consider this as a project.

i.

During the course of my education, I was staying with a few friends in an apartment. However, there was some structural problem with the building that was discovered. When that happened, we were advised to move to a new apartment. That is what we did. The key stakeholder in this project were tenants: my two roommates and I, the existing landlord, and the new landlord.

ii.

The overall project objective was to shift our belongings from the current apartment to the new one. In terms of quality, we wanted to make sure that we do not leave our belongings like laptop, phone, clothes, etc. In addition to this, the objective was to complete the task in one single day and finally the cost should be minimum. We are students and did not want to spend a lot of money in hiring packers and movers.

iii.

The key resource constraint was that we only had three of us to do all the work. This provided a tremendous labor constraint. On the other hand since we had to do it all by ourselves, it is clear that we had budget constraint as well.

iv.

Looking back, I see that we had started packing without clearly chalking a plan. As a result, we had to move to and from several time between the apartments. This made the overall project inefficient and naturally we were exhausted. The way to say it would be labor was completely spent and we could have likely saved some energy if it was planned well.

We could have planned the move carefully, thought about the batches of goods that we would move and the sequence of it. If we had done that, it would have likely yielded better result.