Theory On Old Farm House Project Management

Evaluation

Discuss about the Theory on Old Farm House Project Management .

In this report, I would discuss the project management theory for the old farmhouse project. An evaluation will be done on the events or scenario that will describe each phase of the project management that has five process group starting with the phase of Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. The project also will focus on the ten knowledge area of PMBoK whichever is implemented in planning the project (Sanchez and Terlizzi 2017). An analysis of the event can modify the outcomes that can manage a project.

The old farmhouse is in the rural area which is situated 24 km distance from our hometown. I have visited and inspected the site and understood that it needs a lot of repairing as the house is in rough condition (Congedo et al. 2017). It needs extensive remodelling.  The most important things have itemised as per the requirements and given an estimated time to it. The house will be used for vacations and as a property to rent (Falkiner et al. 2017). The planning of the budget has been estimated for the project to be around $20,000. Over the vacations, I have decided to work for 80 hours to fix all the repairing to be done for the house. Per day the working hours will be for 8 hours per day and five days per week.

While starting the project, a lot of planning is done to complete the project at the right time. Handling the project details in the right order is easy. The stakeholder that are relevant to ensure the successful outcome of the project. However, the efforts of managing the project will be made in the five-phase through which the efforts will be given to the structure were manageable, and logical steps are simplified within a series.

Phase 1: Initiation of the project: In the initiation phase of the project life cycle the feasibility and value have been measured. In this phase, two tools of the evaluation were used to decide whether to pursue the project.

• Document for Business Case: Justifying the project needs. Understanding the item that is needed to consider in undertaking the project and fix the issues. The project charter has been developing to initiate the project and agreed with the contractor. The contractor is then hired to make the job done quickly.
• Feasibility Study: Project goals, timeline and costs are evaluated through which it will determine whether to execute the project. Financing is needed to start the project taking into consideration that the price does not go out of range. Sufficient time and money have been spending to determine a range of value.

Phase 2: Planning of the project: In the planning phase a group of the team were guided about the old farmhouse project with the given time and budget (Zaytoon, 2017). The planning of the project is written-well based on the guidance to obtain the resources, procuring the materials that are required and acquiring financing. The team is directed about the planning of the project to produce quality outputs, create an acceptance, handle the risk, stakeholders’ communication benefits and manage the supplier. Checking through the contractors and asking about the remodelling of the house and written description is being asked to complete the work. There is a list of item and the labour time has been distributed as per the item list through which the number of hours per item is known. The table below will give the list of item in which work will be done, the list of most important fixes that need to be done and the resources and cost of work done by each.

List of items

Home Style

Identify Rooms

Room Adjacencies

Interior Dimensions

Foundation

Framing

Roofing

Doors

Windows

Plumbing

Electrical wiring

Exterior Home

Wall

Ceiling and Trim

Kitchen

Bath

Cleaning Closet

Flooring

Lighting

Garage

Water

Garden Design

Garden Elements

Analysis

List of Most Important Fixes
1	Hanging new curtains
2	Repair wooden porch
3	Repair wooden floor
4	Repair wooden shutters
5	Purchase supplies
6	Wash interior windows
7	Wash external windows
8	Paints doors
9	Paints porch
10	Paint shutters
11	Paint interior walls
12	Paint exterior walls
13	Paints ceilings
14	Sand floor
15	Hang Shutters
16	Refinish floor

Resources	Cost
Supplies needed	$5,000
Contractor	$125 per hour
Apprentice I	$60 per hour
Apprentice II	$40 per hour

 

Phase 3: Execution of the project: For managing any project, the execution phase is commonly associated with the project. In the execution phase, deliverables are built to satisfy the needs of the contractor (Kerzner, 2017). Resources are allocated by the team contractor and help keep focused them on their tasks so that labour do their work properly. The contractor will be managing the whole project. After planning the execution is done. The labour addressed the need and kept open the communication lines (Ragbir and Punb 2018). The labor put their full efforts and work done during the phase of execution and is done throughout the planning of the project.

Phase 4: Monitoring and Control of the project: After execution, the project plan is constantly monitored by the team to understand the progress of the plan (Kivilä, Martinsuo and Vuorinen, 2017). The team has to manage and deliver as per the planning of the project. The contract is monitored by the contractor as it may provide changes if required. This will prevent from scope creep when monitoring, track the variations of cost and time and calculate the performance of the key indicator. In this way, the project will keep on moving ahead smoothly with constant vigilance. The status of the project reports is monitored and identify potential changes in the project.

Phase 5: Closing of the project:  Once the project is complete, I wish the team to close the project and deliver it and communicating about it with the stakeholders. The closing of the project is the vital step in the lifecycle of the project. It was easier for our team to evaluate and document the project.  With the closing of the project, the cost and time have been indicated by calculation.

Pros:

Modernization: With the renovation of the older home, technologies or dated materials are upgraded (Mlecnik et al. 2017). The house has now been equipped with insulation and piping.

Added Value: Renovation adds value to a house that update or refurbishing or add some resale value to the home (Serghides et al. 2017).

Cons:

Expensive: Renovation was becoming expensive as it was upgrading from dated technologies. It is easier to apply compatible materials to modernise the home.

Attractive: The house needs to look spectacular from both inside and outside. It becomes very costly to renovate the house, and the damage to the foundation may not be visible.

Pros and Cons of the project

While analysing the plan, it was found that the old house needs to get into lots of wiring. In the house no running water or electricity was built, over time there was a lot of electrical things to be done throughout. The roof of our farmhouse was too old, and there was leakage in multiple places over the house. The roof was replaced with new steel roof which supposed to be last for at least the end. Unfortunately, the roof was leaking, and cement board pieces had fallen out. Over the time all these things were added with different ways. The room has a completely modernise kitchen and a master bedroom which is up to code. We are now trying to slowly update the house through the renovation of different rooms.

The 5Rs of reflective practice will be discussed below which will relate to the planning of the project (Hughes, Mylonas and Ballantyne 2017).

While working on the project I had an agreement with the contractor were the whole planning of the project was handed over to the contractor. The contractor was even informed that if there is an issue while working with the plan than the payment will not be given the contractor as he has not fulfilled the requirement that was done with the agreement. I tried to make understand the contractor about the plan. At the beginning of the project, it was really difficult to convince with the deal made in the agreement. But finally, he has agreed with it.

As per the observation, the contractor had fulfilled all the requirement that was needed, and the labour that he had hired had properly remodelled the whole house. The contractor positively responded to the deal and planned to arrange labour for the construction (Ward, Azhar and Khalfan 2017). He arranges carpenter, labour for the ceiling, flooring, plastering and many more.

As per my experience, the time and budget that was estimated for the project were very well utilised. There planning was completed within the mentioned time and within the limited budget. The understanding between the labour and the contractor was very responsive. Without proper connection or communication, this could not have been a successful one. If I see the ten knowledge area of project management theory. It is mostly related to the project cost management and project quality management (Oppong, Chan and Dansoh 2017). In project cost management, the budget of the project is comfortably managed through estimating techniques. The analysis of the budget could be control by performing the earned value. In the project quality management, the triple constraints concept is used for Time, Cost and Quality (Barbalho, da Silva and de Toledo 2017). The other knowledge process that was used is the Project Communication Management. The communication between the contractor and the labour is the key factor for the project success as they need to communicate early often or any unexpected situation comes.

When dealing about the agreement the contractor was not familiar with the planning. It was a risk to manage the things that were itemised, prioritised and categorised. The risk that has occurred during the work was while painting the ceiling and plastering the wall (Batselier and Vanhoucke 2017). As it was becoming difficult to analyse whether those painting is going to last longer or not. The response plan was drafted for each who was involved in the project and made aware of the responses that occur with the risk (Furlong et al. 2017).

The construction has been done taking into account that the ceiling, plastering, flooring much at least last for five years and then later as per the requirement the plan might get change. I also think it is important that the house needs some basic changes Wu, G., Zhao, X. and Zuo, J., 2017). Thus, this changes can be the future work of the project manager. I have also decided to plan for the floor that works for a family uniquely. The kitchen and the laundry room will be shut off from the rest of the houses. The flooded basement would be recovered and will be cemented to avoid the underwater running inside the house. In the kitchen the smell will be recover over every 5 years.

Conclusion

From the above study, it is concluded that the theory of project management is essential for planning any project and build a record for personal preference for future use. With the whole process, it was easy to break the plan into phases or stages. A set of the milestone is a plan in the project which has a sequence of actions to achieve with the goals of the project. Depending on the complexity of the project the planning was done to achieve the milestone. It has been ensuring that in each of the plan, the deliverable is defined properly to complete the task. The project has formally closed ensuring that the operating procedures and staff are in place and has been completed. In the final phase, the details are monitored and reviewing the strategic objectives ensuring the project to obtain the desired outcomes. With the end of the project, the plan is handed over to carry out normal operations. The project success is dependent more on the quality of dissemination and knowledge management. 

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