Team Building Project For F&B Marina Bay Sands Singapore

Project Scope

In any business organization a team is formed by grouping multiple individuals from same of multiple disciplines that shares similar goal and purpose. Similarly, the company F&B Marina Bay Sands which is mainly a resort near the marina bay and is one of the most expensive casino properties in the world. Being one of the largest resorts with more than 2500 rooms and other amenities for the customers it requires a large number of teams that can efficiently and effectively carry out the routine operations in different departments in the resort. The team performs different activities while coordinating with each other to achieve a predetermined objective (Miller, 2015). This project is about building a team in which a group of differently skilled people into a cohesive team for the selected business organization, F&B Marina Bay Sands Singapore.

The following report consist of discussion about the project scope, its objectives, deliverables,  limits  as well as activities or tasks that are prioritized as per their importance. In addition to that, the WBS or the work break down structure, cost to implement the project are also provided in this project.

For this team building project for the given organization following are the primary objectives that are intended to be achieved. This objectives are briefly discussed in the following part of this report.

Collaboration: One of the most important elements that is to be achieved through this project is to have a great degree of collaboration between the team members (Dyer & Dyer, 2013).  The degree of collaboration between the team members assigned to a certain project or task can affect the success of the project. Consequently the productivity and the successes of the company.

Problem solving: Another important objective of this project is to have efficient communication between the team so that they can coordinate with each other effectively to achieve the desired results from a certain activities (Miller, 2015).    

Making vision: Through the project, it will help the team to conceptualize bigger picture about a activity or a task and how that task or small project is going to be contribute in the overall productivity of the organization i.e. F&B Marina Bay Sands Singapore.     

Lean Thinking And Conflict resolution:  This objective is important to achieve through this project as it will help the development of the team that enable the team members to optimally utilize the resources so that the wastage of the resources can be avoided. Moreover, this project will help the team to resolve the conflicts which are obvious in case of any team (Burke, 2013). In this way this project will enhance the performance of the team.  As the project comprises three teams each having their own operational departments and thus have the requirement of different types of trying that will improve their efficiency.   Therefore, combining the three teams in a single project helps the team members to acquire the skill of conflict resolution whether it is inside their team or among the individuals in the total project.  

1. Complete and efficient team.
2. Better and improved experience and knowledge.
3. Faster response time from the team in case of any emergency.
4. Strategic report for the management of the team.
5. Feasibility study for this project
6. Requirements for this project
7. Communication plan for the stakeholders.
8. Reduced cost for completing a project or task by the developed team.
9. Training for the team members.
10. Evaluation of the Team performance

Project Objective

There are mainly 4 mile stones for this project which are,

Acquiring the team members for the development of the team.

Defining the responsibilities for each team members

Forming three different teams for different departments of the organization (each time having 30 team members). 

Providing training to the team members to get better performance as per their role.

Evaluation of their performance 

As the project consist of training of the team members and informing  the different stakeholders of the project  thus it is suggested to develop and deploy a website that will be accessible by the team members, stakeholders and the project owner to understand the evaluate the progress of the project (Burke, 2013).

 The team members will refer the site to access the training material that are proposed to use in training process of the team members.   

Following are the limits and exclusions for this specific project, 

The project manager is not responsible for,

1. Determining the availability of the team members, components and systems that are not accessible whenever required for the project.
2. The performance of the team member’s in the projects that are not related to the given organization.
3. The adequacy, efficiency, effectiveness of the training materials used during the training of the selected members (Miller, 2015).
4. To determine the causes of conditions and deficiencies in the projects in which external team members are included.
5. To select the methods and their related costs and corrections.
6. Future improvements or conditions including but not limited to failure of the organizational projects carried out by the developed team.

After the completion of the project, the organization will evaluate the performance of the developed team and provide the feedback about the success of the project.  

The project priority matrix is useful in determining the issues in any project that may arise due to the time, performance of the project team and predetermined cost for the project. As the project is mainly responsible for building a team incorporating different skills to that will be responsible for completing different tasks in the company (Miller, 2015).  In this project the performance of the team would be enhanced and cost that is required to complete the project. The time required to complete this project is also one of the most important factors that needs to be accepted by the team as well as the company.

Priority matrix
	Time	Performance	Cost
Enhance
Accept
Constraint

The above priority matrix shows the different aspects of this project for the development of annual team for the chosen company. Since time for this project is vital, the project manager needs to  exploit each conceivable chance to decrease the completion time, in doing as such, going over spending plan is worthy however not attractive (Burke, 2013). In the meantime, the first execution determinations for the development of the team and in addition to that it is also important to use and maintain standards for the selection of the individuals and their training.

Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish	Predecessors	Resource Names
Marina Bay Team building project	46 days	Mon 24-07-17	Mon 25-09-17
planning	16 days	Mon 24-07-17	Mon 14-08-17
set project scope	5 days	Mon 24-07-17	Fri 28-07-17		Project manager
Set project objective	2 days	Mon 31-07-17	Tue 01-08-17	2	Project manager, Sponsor
Identification of the departments	2 days	Wed 02-08-17	Thu 03-08-17	3	Project manager
Identification of the three teams to be formed for this project	2 days	Fri 04-08-17	Mon 07-08-17	4
Determining the skill sets to be improved	2 days	Fri 04-08-17	Mon 07-08-17	2,4	Internal instructor, Project manager
determine project budget	3 days	Tue 08-08-17	Thu 10-08-17	6	Project manager, Sponsor
Project kick off	2 days	Fri 11-08-17	Mon 14-08-17	7
Acquiring team members for three teams	7 days	Tue 08-08-17	Wed 16-08-17
determining the prerequisite skillsets for Three different teams	2 days	Tue 08-08-17	Wed 09-08-17	6	External instructor, Internal instructor
determining the roles of individuals in the project team	2 days	Thu 10-08-17	Fri 11-08-17	10	External instructor, Internal instructor, Project manager
development of the communication plan in the team	3 days	Mon 14-08-17	Wed 16-08-17	11	Internal instructor, Project manager
Acquiring of team members complete.	2 days	Mon 14-08-17	Tue 15-08-17	11	Project manager
selecting the individuals to assign responsibilities	9 days	Mon 14-08-17	Thu 24-08-17
selecting the individuals to assign responsibilities	5 days	Mon 14-08-17	Fri 18-08-17	11	External instructor, Internal instructor
Assigning resources to the team members.	4 days	Thu 17-08-17	Tue 22-08-17	13,12	External instructor, Project manager
Completion of team development	2 days	Wed 23-08-17	Thu 24-08-17	16	Project manager
Team training	24 days	Wed 23-08-17	Mon 25-09-17
determining the training requirements	2 days	Wed 23-08-17	Thu 24-08-17	16	External instructor, Project manager
Distribution of training materials	5 days	Fri 25-08-17	Thu 31-08-17	19	Internal instructor, Project manager, Training vendor
determining the time for training for team 1, team 2, team 3	2 days	Fri 01-09-17	Mon 04-09-17	20	Project manager, Training vendor
kick of training process	2 days	Fri 01-09-17	Mon 04-09-17	20	Internal instructor, Project manager, Training vendor
Completion of training of team 1	5 days	Tue 05-09-17	Mon 11-09-17	22	Project manager, Training vendor
Completion of training of team 2	5 days	Tue 12-09-17	Mon 18-09-17	23
Completion of training of team 3	5 days	Tue 19-09-17	Mon 25-09-17	24
Evaluation of team performance	9 days	Tue 12-09-17	Fri 22-09-17
setting KPI for measuring the performance for different teams	5 days	Tue 12-09-17	Mon 18-09-17	23	Project manager, Sponsor, Performance evaluator
publication of evaluation report for three teams	2 days	Tue 19-09-17	Wed 20-09-17	27	Performance evaluator
project closure	2 days	Thu 21-09-17	Fri 22-09-17	28	Project manager, Sponsor

 The total cost for this project is $43,200. As this project needs to be completed in a shorter time period while maintaining the quality of the project.

Following are list of resources that would be used for this project, and the cost related to them,

Resource Name	Cost	Baseline Cost	Variance	Actual Cost	Remaining
Project manager	$16,400.00	$0.00	$16,400.00	$0.00	$16,400.00
Sponsor	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Internal instructor	$5,440.00	$0.00	$5,440.00	$0.00	$5,440.00
External instructor	$9,520.00	$0.00	$9,520.00	$0.00	$9,520.00
Training vendor	$6,240.00	$0.00	$6,240.00	$0.00	$6,240.00
Performance evaluator	$5,600.00	$0.00	$5,600.00	$0.00	$5,600.00

Conclusion

 This team development project will help in enhancing the existing skills and technical knowledge of the developed team to significantly   improve the likelihood of the achievement of the business objectives of the business organization with regards to reduction in the related costs, enhancing quality and lessening the period to complete a certain task.  In addition to that it will also help in enhancing the personal recognition and internal agreements between the different team members to improve confidence, diminish the number of conflicts in between, and enhance profitability of the organization. Setting up a dynamic team or group of people with different skills to enhance camaraderie and collaboration between different departments   to add to better learning and expertise sharing in the organization.

References

Burke, R. (2013). Project management: planning and control techniques. New Jersey, USA.

Burke, W. W., & Noumair, D. A. (2015). Organization development: A process of learning and changing. FT Press.

Dyer, W. G., & Dyer, J. H. (2013). Team building: Proven strategies for improving team performance. John Wiley & Sons.

Guest, D. (2015). Team building, team challenges. Appita Journal: Journal of the Technical Association of the Australian and New Zealand Pulp and Paper Industry, 68(2), 87.

Miller, B. C. (2015). Quick team-building activities for busy managers: 50 exercises that get results in just 15 minutes. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn.