The Project Business Case And Personal Work Plan

The project business case discloses the necessary information such as business requirements, cost-benefit analysis to determine whether expected result of the project justify the required investment or not. It is used for decision making as well as establishing project boundaries. The project manager ensures that the project effectively meets the organizational goals as well as requirements of a broad set of stakeholders, as defined in the business case (Jeston 2014). The review of the given case study on Wireless Hill project business case is as follows.

The project objectives form the basis of project scopes and results. The objectives of the Wireless Hill project can be summarised as follows:-

Stage-1:- Preparation of the Wireless Hill Centenary Celebration. The celebrations are to take place over the month following the opening ceremony.

Stage-2:- Realise and achieve the Wireless Hill Vision 2020. The objective guides about Wireless Hill’s future development and provides vision for the following key themes in which the objectives of Wireless Hill Vision 2020are stated.

• Celebrate the site’s European and Aboriginal heritage as well as determine the hidden value of Wireless Hill as a site for community benefit ;
• Recognise and development of the significance of cultural heritage for the wireless communications system as well as Indigenous history.

• Preserve, enhance the natural environment as well as park’s environmental values along with provision of ongoing rehabilitation;
• Effective management of the park for all environmental aspects by one authority.

• Enhance Wireless Hill’s educational value and interpretive knowledge with improved existing facilities for the local community and park visitors;
• Integrate the user groups’ activities within Wireless Hill and maintain the social amenity of Wireless Hill as a learning and recreational destination.

• Provide and ensure safe community access with major focus on universal access for all transport modes;
• Manage and control ready access for vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and other park users, particularly in evenings for anti-social behaviour and vandalism prevention.

• Determine the commercial opportunities and external funding sources to ensure the viability of Wireless Hill in the long term as well as to find other funding opportunities to offset the costs of Park management and maintenance;
• Implement logical and well-organized management for the future.

Within project scope the following items are considered.

• Develop interpretation plan for Wireless Hill with stakeholder input;
• Develop the concept and museum plan presentations along with information sessions for Wireless Hill to EMT/OMT and elected member with feedback;
• Develop the business case of the project for council approval.

The relationship between projects outcomes and Wireless Hill are shown in table below.

 

Contribute to a safe, healthy and active community	The project ensures that Wireless Hill will have appropriate facilities to relax, recreate, communicate, socialize and learn. In addition, the project provides visual access to parked vehicles as well as community security services access. All these make the community vivid and connected.
Provide public places of high quality	The site’s implementation plan development helps to develop strategies, which raise the community experience and viability of museum space.
Maintain positive image	The site will timely provide the integrated visitor’s experience for the centenary celebration and hence maximise the site’s potential at time and in future.
Preserve natural areas	The project aligns with Wireless Hill reserve management plan to enhance and preserve natural areas.
Reduce ecological footprint	The improvement and integration of the imperative and informational signage across the site will educate the park visitor about the environment.
Sustainability of long term asset	Make the museum building available as multi-use educational and exhibition space.

Project cost and Cost-benefits: It consists of the following.

• Project phases and staging costs;
• Overall total project costs;
• Funding required for project implementation;
• Wireless Hill Income and maintenance.

• Strategic risk assessment:- It covers the risks that is related to decision for project proceedings.
• Project risk assessment:- It gives a preliminary assessment of foreseen risks throughout the project.

It is done to determine each stakeholder’s indicative engagement level and relevant communication methods.

• Preparing the site for centenary celebration of the Wireless Hill.
• Realising Wireless Hill’s 2020 vision.
• Connecting and appreciating the cultural, environmental, indigenous heritage of the site.
• Development of the museum into a multi-use exhibition and learning space for the future.

The project considered as an organizational impact and the project team consists of people from strategic community development, technical services, and management services.

A personal work plan outlines the set of goals and methods to achieve those goals by a professional and offers a better understanding of project’s scope. The following is the personal work plan of project manager of John Readings Pty Ltd. As per project manager’s work plan, Wireless Hill project is approached in stages for preparation of the centenary celebration of the Wireless Hill and realisation of the Wireless Hill 2020 Vision (Heagney 2016).

 

· Full expansion of store market in Asia · Global expansion of online market. · Take-over of two primary market competitors	· Conduct business analysis according to the market research report. Offering the book stock in local languages. · Procuring, selling and delivering range of online products.	· A  community workshop is conducted to identify the key considerations, outline the strategic objectives, identify any additional issues /opportunities, and develop a vision for the sustainable future of John Readings Pty Ltd. · Design, implementation, evaluation of new coordinated work/life program to align to the corporate goal to attract and keep innovative, customer-focused employee in order to expand business. · Inclusion of service level agreement to provide appropriate advice, assistance support to managers implementing  the program.	Within 4 months.
Within 6 months

They are measurable indicators for tracking one’s performance progress as well as highlighting areas where help and support is required.

 

Develop and implement a master plan for the implementation of communication strategy and issues of concern to the external community.	· Assemble a working party to brainstorm the process. ·  Develop a plan. · Develop survey to gauge success of new process	Survey results showing 97% or higher satisfaction with new process.
Introduction of IT system for sales order, inventory management	Develop enhanced IT functionality and capability as well as ecommerce strategy and action plan.	50% increase in sales.

References:

Heagney, J., 2016. Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.

Jeston, J., 2014. Business process management. Routledge.