Fundamentals Of Project Management Assessment 2 Name: Viet Hoang Nguyen ID:701333 COKKING COMPETITION CONCERT IN NEW ZEALAND Purpose of the Project The goal of this project is to make certain that every community’s traditions and customs are reserved and respected mainly the cooking approaches, recipes, and customary cooking materials. This project aims at examining the cooking methods that are attributed to given groups of people, their traditions, and recipes (Martinelli, & Milosevic, 2016). The project will involve different communities within New Zealand in the contest to embrace all the cultures within the state. Summary of the Project Scope The extent of the project, the Coking Competition Concert in New Zealand, includes providing the competitors with the chance to prepare the traditional meals and serve them. The location of the concert will be in New Zealand Town, and the same will be extended to Sydney and Australia towns in due time (Nicholas, & Steyn, 2017). The factor of the cost will be involved in the projects as finances will be needed for a lot of the activities which are included in the project. Some of these activities that will need to be funded will include construction or rent of a building where the concert will take place and purchasing instruments and the technical support team to be from the show. In addition to these, security force and hiring kitchen staff for cooking from the communities and costs regarding time through examining the recipes provided will also need to be financed. In addition to this, the scope will also cover the number of communities that should participate in the competition and the number of individuals from each community selected for the contest. Implementation Strategy and Plan The primary strategy for the project implementation involves some activities. The concert commences on May 30, 2017, with the cooking competition being on July 13, 2017. According to Kerzner, (2013), the implementation plan will only be applied if it is approved by the government of New Zealand showing that it is safe to be implemented. It is beneficial to utilize this approach to implement the project as it has broken down the available tasks and activities that need to be incorporated into the project. Also, the strategy avails the key activities that will be undertaken, and thus it is easy to plan for the same in due time. The implementation plan is divided into phases which will help the competition concert to be efficient and effective. These phases are: Project startup after the planning has been done, which is due to take one whole day, and will involve the CEO, and The New Zealand Government, The Analysis stage which involves the project cop and the requirements for the project and will involve CEO, the Project Manager, and the Government of New Zealand. Execution Phase that will account for procurement of the required materials, preparing the venue, and the conduction of the event. Closing phase, which will account for the evaluation of the project and obtaining feedback from the community. However, testing of the specialized instruments will have to be done before the Execution phase as a means of ensuring that every detail is set to work. The support team will be available for the purpose of providing that any individuals who may seek assistance for any part of the contest (Turner, 2014). Schedule Management Scheduling of the project is an important aspect as it will help to have a clear understanding and expectation of when the project can have delivered. According to Burke, (2013) tasks and activities have been scheduled to be carried twice a week, with each task will be examined and evaluated at each stage. For easier scheduling, it is important that the project leaders and team members meet up within the selected days for them to efficiently discuss matters and thus ensure that they complete the project within the speculated time. Milestones can be used in the process to ensure that each activity is recorded for future purposes. According to Heagney, (2016), the advancement of the project will be tracked with the consecutive meetings between the team involved in ensuring the success of the same, and through the milestones which will be recorded for easier follow up of the activities that are involved in the project development and implementation stages. Budget Plan: The Event Budget Plan will survey occasion choices, help build up the concert spending plan, occasion plan, and oversee seller contract transactions. The Event Budget Planner will live up to the most astounding desires. It deals with every one of the points of interest, from finding the ideal site to giving cooking, stimulation, embellishments and staff. This also gives the most elevated amount of polished methodology and will enable the authority to remain inside the financial plan. The given budget plan includes the remunerations need to be given to the human resource required for the specific activities. Activities Budget Venue rent $ 20,000.00 Stage setup $ 5,000.00 Arrangements for cooking $ 1,000.00 Ingredients $ 1,000.00 Felicitation of the guests and competitors $ 500.00 Foods and Drinks $ 2,000.00 Accommodation for the guests and competitors $ 10,000.00 Electricity $ 1,000.00 Safety Precautions $ 500.00 Prize $ 50,000.00 Total $ 91,000.00  Quality management plan: This segment depicts how to characterize and report the procedure for checking and recording the aftereffects of executing the quality exercises to survey execution and prescribe fundamental changes. Quality control applies to the venture's item rather than its procedures. It ought to incorporate the satisfactory gauges as well as execution for the item and how these estimations will be led. The accompanying activities ought to be finished as a feature of Quality Control arranging: Identify key expectations to be explored Identify quality audit models Identify fulfillment and accuracy criteria as characterized by the client Describe the Quality Control exercises and instruments Establish estimation timelines & resultant activities Identify proprietors of progressing observing and change of venture procedures Contributions to quality control may incorporate the Project Management Plan, Quality Metrics, Quality Checklists, Work Performance Measurements, Approved Change Requests, Updated Documentation Deliverables and Organizational Process Assets. Human Resource: An efficient team work is required for getting the desired level of success in the cooking competition concert. In order to achieve the high level of success, the project manager requires developing a good team, where each and every team members has specific job roles and responsibilities. The event manager or the project manager would be the head of the team who would decide the job roles of the other people in the team. There would be an assistant manager also for helping the manager in the planning, scheduling and job assigning to the other team members of the event planning project. Human Resource Quantity Event/Project Manager 1 Assistant Manager 1 Planner 2 Decorator 2 Event worker 5 Labors 10 Security Officers 2 Guards 5 Sweeper 2 Procure Management Plan: This event plan needs lot of products from different vendors. The procure plan ha to ensure that the required materials would be efficient enough for the event. The criteria for the choice and honor of acquisition contracts under this venture will be founded on the accompanying choice criteria: Comparison of outsourced cost versus in house sourcing Mandatory Requirements Vendor money related documentation General Qualifications and Experience (merchant and proposed staff) Past execution Quality Ability of the merchant to give all things by the required conveyance date Cost The manger is at last in charge of overseeing merchants. Keeping in mind the end goal to guarantee the convenient conveyance and high caliber of items from sellers, the Project Director or his/her designee will meet week by week with the buying and contracts division alongside every merchant to examine the advance for each obtained thing. The motivation behind these gatherings is to audit every single recorded determination for every item and to survey the quality test discoveries. 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