...PM586 SEC H PROJECT PART 1 SEITZ HUNTSVILLE PROJECT PROJECT REPORT Introduction Project Planning is the key to the success of a Project. Seitz Huntsville Project is a very large project with a budget of $2,750,000 to be completed in only 18 months. Janis Clark, the Project Manager for Seitz Huntsville Project seems very determined in implementing this Project, having all the support from board of directors and access to functional elements at the corporate plant. Steve Pokorski, the Vice President of Operations, and Joe Downs (was also a Project Manager candidate for this project), the Director of Plant Engineering, were also asked to help Janis in anyway, even if they had to go out of the way. 2 Janis Strategy Mark Green, the Project Sponsor asked Janis to furnish the Project artifacts before proceeding further and Janiss approach was to convert her task list to Project Charter, Scope Statement and WBS. Since she had already created a task list, it was easier for her to build a WBS but that certainly is correct path. Janis, to the best of my knowledge, should have created a Project Charter first with the help of her assistants. A charter document is the WHAT of a project and if not planning properly, the Project is destined to fail. Charter document is used to communicate between the Project Teams, Stake holders and the rest of the company about the Project. This document is the foundation of the Project. It authorizes the project manager to proceed with the project. After creating...
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...com | SEITZ HUNTSVILLE plant Development Project Our Opportunity for Southern Region Expansion Project Introduction Project planning is a key component to the success of any project. The Seitz Huntsville Plant Expansion project is a large project with a budget of $2.75M and an aggressive timeline of eighteen months. Janet Clark, the PM for Seitz Huntsville project seems very committed to the project success. She has the support of the board of directors, the company and the project sponsor. Additionally she has access to resources and technology (including others strategy plans) to get the south plant completed. Steve Pokorski, the VP of Operations, and Joe Downs, the Director of Plant Engineering, were also asked to help Janet make the project a success. Janet’s Strategy Mark Green, the project sponsor, has asked Janet to form the project articles before proceeding with the project. Janet’s approach is to convert her task list to the following: * Project Charter * Scope Statement * WBS Janet had already created a task list so this was easy to build a WBS. However, Janet should have first created a project charter with the help of the project assistants. This is the most basic initiation of any project. When the steps of project creation are skipped, it puts the whole project in jeopardy. A charter document is used to communicate between the project team, the stakeholder, and the company about the project. It is the groundwork of the project and basically...
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...com | SEITZ HUNTSVILLE plant Development Project Our Opportunity for Southern Region Expansion Project Introduction Project planning is a key component to the success of any project. The Seitz Huntsville Plant Expansion project is a large project with a budget of $2.75M and an aggressive timeline of eighteen months. Janet Clark, the PM for Seitz Huntsville project seems very committed to the project success. She has the support of the board of directors, the company and the project sponsor. Additionally she has access to resources and technology (including others strategy plans) to get the south plant completed. Steve Pokorski, the VP of Operations, and Joe Downs, the Director of Plant Engineering, were also asked to help Janet make the project a success. Janet’s Strategy Mark Green, the project sponsor, has asked Janet to form the project articles before proceeding with the project. Janet’s approach is to convert her task list to the following: * Project Charter * Scope Statement * WBS Janet had already created a task list so this was easy to build a WBS. However, Janet should have first created a project charter with the help of the project assistants. This is the most basic initiation of any project. When the steps of project creation are skipped, it puts the whole project in jeopardy. A charter document is used to communicate between the project team, the stakeholder, and the company about the project. It is the groundwork of the project and basically...
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...Project Planning 1 Seitz Corp Scott T. Walker Keller Graduate School PM586: Project Management Professor Gary Gross Introduction In January 2008 the board of directors of SEITZ Corporation authorized the expenditure of $2,750,000 to construct a new plant in Huntsville Alabama that was to be completed and delivering product by 2010. Janis Clark was selected to be the project manager. Janice was given access to several key resources within the company including functional elements of the corporations Midwest plant and headquarters. She was also assigned key individuals Steve Pokorski, the Vice President of Operations, and Joe Downs, the Director of Plant Engineering. It must also be noted the Steve and Joe had submitted alternate proposals that were rejected. Clark immediately called her team together and set forth with plans to kick off the project. They first started by establishing and organizations structure and placing internal and external requisitions for employees with technical skills. Based on the posturing of Clark and her team there appeared to be some arrogance in their attitude in regard to promotion and location of the project. A preliminary list of task was established; a preliminary product line was established. Also expectations for an early completion of the plant were set in place. And it appeared all activities were set in place or in motion. Janice and her team were just about to schedule their kick off meeting...
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...Course Project Introduction | | In this course, you will have one course project and will require two different assignments – Course Project Part I and Course Project Part II. This project will test your knowledge of all of the project management tools and techniques that we'll cover in this course. Before you begin, please review the PM 586 Course Project Tour. [You'll find the link above.] This audio/visual tool will take you on a "tour" of the project and will highlight many of the logistics and "need to know" information to successfully complete the two parts of the project. In addition, this course project does require use of Microsoft Project. If you are not familiar with the software or just need a "refresher," please run through the tutorials above or look at the end of the chapters in the textbook for a mini-lesson of the software. Course Project Description | | Johann Seitz founded the SEITZ Corporation in 1982. The main products of the firm were small- to medium-sized plastic bottles and containers, used mainly in the food and dairy industries. By 1985, the annual sales of the corporation had reached $31 million and the firm enjoyed a dominant market position in the upper Midwest. In 1998, Walter and Teri Seitz, Johann’s grandchildren, assumed the day-to-day operation of the business. Teri Seitz was a somewhat unstructured, but diligent, student of the latest business school theory and decided that in order to meet increased competition, especially...
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...Overview A student project is required in PROJ586 and is to be completed on an individual basis. Use of Microsoft Project software is required. The project will consist of the Huntsville plant construction effort, the details of which are in the "project tabs" in the course shell for each week's assignment This course project assignment follows the Huntsville project from a Project Charter (where the effort is initially approved), through the Project Scope Statement (where the scope is elaborated in more detail), through the WBS (where the major tasks and sub-tasks are documented), and finally to a completed project schedule in Microsoft Project, with resources and costs added in. Along the way we also complete a Risk Plan and a Communications Plan for the Huntsville project, and deal with scheduling and resource issues, all normal and customary actives in most project environments. However all a bit mysterious to the uninitiated! So I'm going to try and walk you through all of that with these Part-1 through Part-5 instruction documents. Please do listen to the Course Project Tour Video (in the Course Home/Course Project tab). It lays out in summary all the deliverables for the Course Project. Since the effort is worth 25% of your grade, you really need to understand what we are asking for and when all the pieces are due! As you complete this course project effort, remember; think of this as a set of business communications as well as a class assignment. In part this...
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...Project Scope Statement Project Name Huntsville Plant Project Number #1 Project Manager Prioritization Top priority Owner(s) Johann & Walter Seitz Project Description In January 2010, the board of directors of SEITZ Corporation decided to select an investment project that would best achieve the strategic goals in the next fiscal year. The project that was selected is the construction of a new plant in Huntsville, Alabama. Walter Seitz is the Project Sponsor. $2,750,000 has been budgeted for this effort, and it should begin by April 18, 2011 and should be fully operating by June 30, 2012. Project Product This section is typically an amplification of the product description from the Project Charter. Project Deliverables 1) Select resources such as: Architect, Real Estate Consultant, and General Contractor. 2) Recruit and Train Managers for Huntsville Plant. 3) Create a Pre-Production and Production Plan. 4) Create a Building Concept and Design. 5) Procure Building Site, Permits, and Appropriate Approvals. 6) Construct the Huntsville Plant Building. 7) Landscaping on Site. 8) Personnel Recruiting for Plant Operations. 9) Procure Equipment, Raw Material and Truck Fleet 10) Install Equipment. 11) Create Product Distribution Plan and Pre-Production Plan. 12) Start Up Production and Distribution Project Objectives To expand Seitz Corporation in accordance with the Company’s Strategic plan set by the Board of Directors by construction of a...
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...| Huntsville Plant Project | Erika Moore Project Management 586 | Erika Moore 9/22/2013 | First, let’s start with a simple question. What is a critical path? According to Gido (2015), “In large network diagrams, there may be many paths of activities from the project start to the project completion. The Critical Path is the longest containing the most time consuming activities” (p. 157). Now that we have an understanding of what the Critical Path is, let’s move on to the next question. That question is what is the Huntsville Plant’s critical path? The Huntsville Plant’s critical path is as follows. Step one is to prepare the site. This first step would include any ground preparation that may be required to accommodate a building such as the Huntsville Plant. Step two is to construct the building. This would include pouring concrete, putting up drywall, etc. The third step in the Critical Path is to install the equipment. This would include installing all technologies required for the safe operation of the facility. The fourth step in the Plant’s path is to perform a pre-production run. Now every company has their own definition of a pre-production run, so I’ll let you form your own conclusions regarding this aspect of the critical path. The next step is to perform production start up. Production start up usually means setting things in motion to begin distributing your product or service. In the case of the Huntsville Plant the production of plastic...
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... obstacle, and a goal can all be found inside every business, but it is how they |Huntsville Plant | |are seen, defeated, and achieved that sets them apart. SEITZ promises that each and every day,| | |whether or not our doors are open or shut, we will stick to our mission and complete it to its| | |full potential. We will conquer the difficulties that are faced in our path, to ensure that we| | |are fair to customers, guests, employees and business. Relationships with our guests and | | |employees are our number one priority since SEITZ bases their success on the happiness of | | |their clients and employees. Service is an action that we will hold to its best and is | | |completely complimentary to everyone who steps inside our institution. | | Tables of Content: Essay Responses to the Questions....................................................….. 3 Project Charter …………………………………………………………. 6 Scope Statement………………………………………………………… 11 WBS – Outline Chart Style……………………………………………. 13 MS Project File…………………………………………......................... 14 MS Project File Essay Answer………………………………………… 15 Resources…………………………………………........................
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...Huntsville Project Organizational Structure Essay James M. Reska Keller-PM 586 – Project Management August 19, 2012 Huntsville Project Organizational Structure Essay The success of an organization relies primarily on its organizational structure. There are three basic organizational structures; of course, there exists organizational structures that combine pieces of these three. It is my belief that no two organizations are perfectly identical. Each one requires fine tuning specifically tailored to the needs of that company. The matrix structure is used primarily for “project driven” companies, especially construction companies it combines both functional and pure project structures, each team member has two bosses; the project manager and the functional manager. The SEITZ Corporation has chosen to invest in the construction of a new plant in the next fiscal year believing that this investment is the best way to achieve the strategic goals outlined in their Project Charter. Therefore, the most feasible way for them to achieve success in this endeavor is to establish their construction/investment project as a matrix organization. Within a matrix organization there are certain ground rules that must be adhered to; participants must spend full time on projects, there must exist vertical and horizontal channels in place for making...
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...Deliverables | | In Week 1, you reviewed the Course Project background. Using the project background information and the information below, there are three deliverables due this week: * Create Project Charter – 15 points * Create Scope Statement – 15 points * Create Two-Level Work Breakdown Structure – 15 points Please provide these three deliverables to the Week 2 Drop Box. Please refer to the course syllabus for your due date. | | Project Background | | It is February 1, 2010, and you have been selected to be the project manager of the Huntsville Plant project. You have just received a memo providing authorization to begin this project. The first thing you noticed was that the project charter has not been completed, so you utilized the information that you know through the project background, and then you scheduled a meeting with Walter Seitz, your project sponsor to obtain additional project details. | | Instructions | | Project Charter Using the Project Background information and the theoretical information you learned from your discussion with Walter, create a Project Charter using the template provided in Doc Sharing. Project Scope Statement Using the information established in the Project Charter, create the Project Scope Statement using the template provided in Doc Sharing. Two-Level Work Breakdown Structure Now that you have your charter and scope statement created, you engaged your team members to begin discussing what...
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...Huntsville Plant Project Project Resource Allocation & Findings Within the scope of our new project for SEITZ Corporation we are scheduling resources currently, and crunching raw data to establish a timeline of trying to meet the June 30, 2012 deadline. 2011 Rego Hurtado Project Management, Inc. 5/1/2011 Huntsville Plant Project Project Resource Allocation & Findings Within the scope of our new project for SEITZ Corporation we are scheduling resources currently, and crunching raw data to establish a timeline of trying to meet the June 30, 2012 deadline. 2011 Rego Hurtado Project Management, Inc. 5/1/2011 Introduction The following analysis is based on raw input data utilizing Microsoft Project 2010 scheduling for the new building in Huntsville Alabama. As you know we are focusing on providing an efficient project schedule to meet the current deadline set for June 30, 2012. It is established that a new building will be built upon the idea that SEITZ Corporation will become launched straight to the top of the industry. In this analysis you will find a critical path within our scheduling that establishes the shortest amount of time it would take to complete mandatory tasks; a rundown of the current scheduling along with resource allocation and any changes that need to be made. If you have any questions feel free to send me an email, or for the quickest reply please give me a call. Resource Allocation What is resource allocation? As project managers...
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...HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA PROJECT: Organizational Structure Angel Menchaca Professor Yates Keller Graduate School of Management 8/17/12 Once an organization finds its organization structure, it will help put them on the road to success. There are three primary project management organizational structures to choose from, which include: functional, matrix, and pure project. Every organizational structure has advantages as well as disadvantages, but choosing the correct structure can help implement a successful project. The Seitz Corporation has allocated funding for a structured project team to develop a plastics plant in Huntsville, Alabama. The board of directors has employed their ideal matrix style-organizational structure in order to create a distributing plant in a relatively short time frame. Although there could possibly be dilemmas and shortcomings of this type of leadership, the benefits could save the team and the project as it comes across risks and other events that could halt progress entirely. As it appears, the Board of Directors has chosen to run with a combination of functional and project style leadership. Taking the benefits of these two styles, they have developed a matrix style structure that envelopes the sole leadership of a project manager, and a multifaceted group of functional experts that are specialists in their related job tasks. There are some indications that the project team is not utilized anywhere else other than the project; in addition, most...
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...need to handle such dramatic increases in traffic. This will have far-reaching consequences. Commercial airports are powerful economic engines, generating 10.5 million jobs and $1.2 trillion for the U.S. economy, according to a new Airports Council International-North America study. Across the country, workers and businesses count on local airports to attract investment and move people and goods around the world. Since 2001, the total number of jobs associated with airports has increased by more than 50 percent. Despite unprecedented growth and clear evidence of the economic benefits of infrastructure investments, airports expect to have $80 billion in unmet needs through 2015 because of the flawed system used to pay for infrastructure projects. That has not always been the case. Airports generated millions of jobs and trillions of dollars for local communities between 2001 and 2010 because President Bill Clinton and Congress made two decisions to improve airport infrastructure planning and investment in 2000. The first decision allowed local communities to raise more money to finance...
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...CONTENTS Section 1 - Industry Profile Overview Future Outlook European Industry Overview North America Overview Asia & Pacific Industry Overview India & Middle East Industry Overview Development of World Scheduled Air Traffic World Economic Growth and Airline Profits Rankings - Passenger services Rankings – Freight services Section 2 - British Airways Profile Overview Alliances LHR Air Transport Movements LGW Air Transport Movements Awards History Key Events (1987-2005) Board Members Leadership Team British Airways Management Team Employees Brands Departmental Analysis Section 3 - British Airways Fleet Aircraft Fleet Aircraft Delivery Schedule Mainline Fleet Profiles Regional Aircraft Fleet Maintenance Section 4 - British Airways Performance Summary Strategy Social and Environmental Performance Incentive Plans Summary Financial / Operating Statistics Principal Investments Shareholder Information Share Price History Section 5 - Global Partners Overview BA Connect Franchisees oneworld Aer Lingus American Airlines Cathay Pacific Finnair Iberia LanChile Qantas oneworld At A Glance Section 6 - Route Network British Airways Franchisees Section 7 - General Information Airport Three Letter Decodes Outside Advisors Abbreviations & Specialist Terms How To Contact Us 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 8 89 91 92 93 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 9 9 10 10 11 12 13 38 39 40 41 44 47 105 109 110 115 116 118 56 56 57 69 72 73 74 75 75 77 86 87 88 This document has been prepared solely...
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