Project cost management assignment 1
1) Introduction
Curtin University wants to provide an international conference on the project management in Sydney. This conference will start in 15th of January in 2015 in Sydney with 2 major objectives. Moreover, the conference’s duration will be two business days.
Showing the university’s commitment profile to project management education.
Provide the university’s community for extending knowledge in the project management field.
Curtin University can enhance the university’s project management community by providing this international conference in comparison with the other universities. Professor Jefferson is the sponsor of this project who is one of the Curtin University’s academic staff members.
During the first initiate session with Professor Jefferson he provided the project scope as;
2 day conference in Sydney to be run in January 2015.
2 high profile international key speaker for each day.
Local high profile key speaker from Sydney for the rest of the conference.
The conference representative accommodation is going to be on their arrangement and cost.
The conference dinner followed by some entertainment programs should be organised on the first day’s evening.
Costs are based on an expected attendance of 200 representatives.
The costs are based on the assumption which:
The scope limitation which described by Professor Jefferson.
10% accurate in considered for preparing this statistics
The statistics are basically calculated in April 2014 and the future inflation may affect these figures.
2) A brief explanation of how the data required for the estimate was collected/source
The whole information and data for this estimate was done via a combination of the following links;
Telephone and E-mail communication individually with certain companies and people
Searching various websites for finding exact prices like chepoair.com which provides online booking
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