Question

Scenario:  Jimmi-Jane Fitness has outgrown their current facility and you are looking for a new location for relocation. This must be done as soon as possible because the company is already behind on its clothing orders due to the lack of space to manage the production of its increasing inventory!

As the project manager, find a new location and plan out the company’s move to this new location. However, the company is on a limited budget with short timelines, as well quality real estate space for this purpose is hard to find.

Question:

a) How would you approach this type of project?
b) What would your first steps be in planning out the project?
c) There will be conflicting requirements for the new facility. How will you determine which ones are essential?

**Please do not copy previous answers. Thank you.

Answer 1

a) In order to plan on how to find a new place for the company , we can use lean approach where we consider all the available alternatives, compare them and pick up the best alternative. This kind of approach helps us in determining what is important for the company and how we can find the correct place for our requirements and budget .

b)In order to plan this project we first need to determine our requirements . We must analyse the need to change to a new facility . We must then determine the budget that can be kept for this process . We must then compare our budget and our requirements and compare them to understand what is more important at this point of business.

c) While deciding on the new facility we would have conflicting requirements like low budget with small space or high rent with perfect space, easily accessible for customers or low rent but far for customers. We need to determine what is most important for us. In this situation the major requirement is a large space to meet the demand and a space which is easily accessible for our customers. Based on this we need to select the space.