Project Planing and Control

Chapter 16 Project planning and control

Source: Arup

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Project planning and control

Project planning and control The market requires … specified time, quality and cost of a project The operation supplies … the delivery of the project on time, to specification and to budget Design

Operations strategy Operations management

Improvement

Planning and control

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Complexity and uncertainty as project dimensions
High

Basic research Oil and gas exploration Antarctic expedition Airport Product development Advertising campaign Chemical plant Novel writing
Individual

Euro project Military campaign Channel Tunnel Airbus

Uncertainty

Thames Barrier

Low

Wedding
Group

Company audit
Organization

Motorway Oil tanker
Nation

Car plant
Multi-nation

Multiorganization Complexity

Low

High

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Stages in project management
Stage 1 Understanding the project environment

Stage 2

Project definition

Changes

Stage 3

Project planning

Corrective action Stage 5 Project control

Stage 4

Technical execution

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The project environment consists of all the factors that can affect the project

Geo-social environment

Econo-political environment

Geography National culture
The project Business environment

Economy Government
Internal environment

Customers Competitors Suppliers/ subcontractors

Company strategy Resources Other projects

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