Manchester United
Yousef Jaafar
ENT 419
Ch. 4 Assignment
September 16, 2014
Nicolette Larson is the tournament director of the Manchester United Soccer Club, MUSC, and she is responsible for organizing the clubs first summer tournament. MUSC needs additional revenue to expand the number of soccer fields and to augment soccer scholarship programs. Nicolette needs to define her project scope, which is the end result or mission of your service-a service for your customer, pg. 102. When Nicolette had the committee meeting, she came unprepared with no agenda. The project manager is responsible for seeing that there is agreement with the owner on project objectives, deliverables at each stage of the project, pg. 102.This resulted in an inefficient meeting that had committee members complaining about the service rather than trying to improve it. Nicolette’s husband, Kevin, suggested that the first thing they needed to do was to develop a WBS.
1.
Work Structure Breakdown
Major Deliverables
a. List of sponsors with the amount sponsored
b. List of local college fields that can be used for the tournaments
c. List of teams playing in the event along with schedule of matches
d. Finalized rewards for the teams
e. Design of T-shirts and accessories to be manufactured for the event
f. Logistic details for the events like volunteers, soccer balls etc.
2.
WBS will provide the aggregate picture of the event and provide a structure to the activities that needs to be planned and managed. Being the first event, WBS will help them in scheduling of the soccer matches, handling the registration, cost estimations and defining logistics.
WBS will reduce, to some extent eliminate, the possibility of forgetting a task completely. All the tasks will be listed in a map, with their defined priority and sequence. This structure facilities evaluation of cost, time and technical performance at all levels in the organization over the life
ENT 419
Ch. 4 Assignment
September 16, 2014
Nicolette Larson is the tournament director of the Manchester United Soccer Club, MUSC, and she is responsible for organizing the clubs first summer tournament. MUSC needs additional revenue to expand the number of soccer fields and to augment soccer scholarship programs. Nicolette needs to define her project scope, which is the end result or mission of your service-a service for your customer, pg. 102. When Nicolette had the committee meeting, she came unprepared with no agenda. The project manager is responsible for seeing that there is agreement with the owner on project objectives, deliverables at each stage of the project, pg. 102.This resulted in an inefficient meeting that had committee members complaining about the service rather than trying to improve it. Nicolette’s husband, Kevin, suggested that the first thing they needed to do was to develop a WBS.
1.
Work Structure Breakdown
Major Deliverables
a. List of sponsors with the amount sponsored
b. List of local college fields that can be used for the tournaments
c. List of teams playing in the event along with schedule of matches
d. Finalized rewards for the teams
e. Design of T-shirts and accessories to be manufactured for the event
f. Logistic details for the events like volunteers, soccer balls etc.
2.
WBS will provide the aggregate picture of the event and provide a structure to the activities that needs to be planned and managed. Being the first event, WBS will help them in scheduling of the soccer matches, handling the registration, cost estimations and defining logistics.
WBS will reduce, to some extent eliminate, the possibility of forgetting a task completely. All the tasks will be listed in a map, with their defined priority and sequence. This structure facilities evaluation of cost, time and technical performance at all levels in the organization over the life