Manchester united soccer club case study
MGMT2102 Project Management:Manchester United Soccer Club Case Study
Questions:
Manchester United Soccer Club Case Study
Nicolette Larson was loading the dishwasher with her husband, Kevin, and telling him about the first meeting of the Manchester United Tournament Organizing Committee. Nicolette, a self-confessed “soccer mom,” had been elected tournament director and was responsible for organizing the club's first summer tournament.
Manchester United Soccer Club (MUSC) located in Manchester, New Hampshire, was formed in 1992 as a way of bringing recreational players to a higher level of competition and preparing them for the State Olympic Development Program and/or high school teams. The club currently has 24 boys and girls (ranging in age from under 9 to 16) on teams affiliated with the Hampshire Soccer Association and the Granite State Girls Soccer League. The club's board of directors decided in the fall to sponsor a summer invitational soccer tournament to generate revenue. Given the boom in youth soccer, hosting summer tournaments has become a popular method for raising funds. MUSC teams regularly compete in three to four tournaments each summer at different locales in New England. These tournaments have been reported to generate between $50,000 and $70,000 for the host club.
Section 1:
After reading the case study, Manchester United Soccer Club, answer the following questions.
- What are five characteristics which help differentiate projects from other functions carried out in the daily operations of the organization?
- Why is the implementation of projects important to strategic planning and the project manager?
- The technical and sociocultural dimensions of project management are two sides to the same coin. Explain.
- What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of the functional, matrix, and dedicated team approaches to managing projects?
- How are projects linked to the strategic plan?
- What are the six elements of a typical scope statement?
- What questions does a project objective answer? What would be an example of a good project objective?
- What does it mean if the priorities of a project include: Time–constrain, Scope-accept, and Cost–enhance?
- List three kinds of information that are included in a work package?
- When would it be appropriate to create a responsibility matrix rather than a full-blown WBS?
Section 2:
After reading the case study entitled, Manchester United Soccer Club, and completing Section 1 of this assignment. Write up report using the Reporting Guidelines.
- Project Background and Description
- Project Scope
- High-Level Requirements
- Deliverables and Milestones
- Stakeholders
- High-Level Timeline/Schedule
Answers:
Section 1:
Q 1.
Project life cycle: The entire life cycle of the project must include the entire period of project execution from initiation.
Specific cost, time as well as performance requirements: The cost, time as well as various performance requirements that are required in the project is very much different from other functions that are carried out in daily operations.
Q 2.
Q 3.
Q 4.
| Advantages | ||
| Functional | Matrix | Dedicated |
| It is a radical alteration in basic structure of the parent organization | It utilizes resources across functional as well as project duties | It do not disrupt the structure of the parent organization. |
| It helps in providing maximum flexibility within different functional units | The project mainly focuses on the designated project manager | It mainly focuses on the project. |
Q 5
It is identified that projects are mainly linked with the strategic planning as projects helps in representing the method through which the strategy is mainly implemented. It is found that as project are quite important, the best way of maximizing the scare resources of the project is by using proper as well as effective priority scheme which helps in allocating various types of resources within the portfolio of the project that helps in balancing risk and contributes properly within the strategic plan.
Q 6
The various elements of typical scope statement are elaborated below:
Limits and exclusions: The limits or risks that obstruct the project progress are also illustrated with the help of limits and exclusions.
Reviews with customer: The reviews of the customer are also incorporated with the scope statement of the project.
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Q 8
Q 9
- Work for accomplishing the project segment
- Time for accomplishing the work package
- Time phased budget for the entire work package and the entire cost that is needed for total work package
- Resources needed for completing the work package successfully
- Monitoring various points for measuring the entire project progress during implementation of work package
Q 10
It is quite appropriate to create proper responsibility matrix rather than full blown WBS when is project is quite small. It is identified that when the project have very much limited scope then it is analyzed that work breakdown package enhances both the time as well as cost of the entire project. It is found that full-blown WBs is generally designed to be utilized in large projects.
Section 2:
Project background and description
Project scope
- Organizing tournament for Manchester United Soccer Club
- Hiring proper qualified referees
- Creating appropriate entry fees
- Sale of tournament t-shirts
- Development of silk-screen design for the tournament
- Completion of entire project within assumed budget and time
- Training session will not be arranged for the players
- Fee concession facility is also absent
High level requirements
The high level project requirements include:
- Documenting the significance of qualified referees
- Contacting local colleges
- Buying rewards
- Procedure of charging entry fee
- Sale of tournament t-shirts
- Development of silk-screen design for the tournament
Deliverables and Milestones
The project deliverables include:
- Development of document for project plan
- Documentation of project charter
- Documentation of significance of qualified referees
- Procedure of charging entry fee
- Documentation of project
| Task Name | Expected date |
| Completion of planning phase | Wed 25-10-17 |
| Completion of initiation phase | Fri 10-11-17 |
| Completion of execution phase | Wed 20-12-17 |
| Completion of closure phase | Mon 08-01-18 |
Stakeholders
High-level Timeline/schedule
| Task Name | Duration | Start | Finish |
| Organizing tournament for Manchester United Soccer Club | 74 days | Wed 27-09-17 | Mon 08-01-18 |
| Planning phase | 21 days | Wed 27-09-17 | Wed 25-10-17 |
| Creating project plan | 4 days | Wed 27-09-17 | Mon 02-10-17 |
| Creating resource plan | 3 days | Tue 03-10-17 | Thu 05-10-17 |
| Creating financials plan | 3 days | Fri 06-10-17 | Tue 10-10-17 |
| Creating quality plan | 4 days | Wed 11-10-17 | Mon 16-10-17 |
| Creating risk plan | 3 days | Tue 17-10-17 | Thu 19-10-17 |
| Creating communication plan | 4 days | Fri 20-10-17 | Wed 25-10-17 |
| Milestone: Completion of planning phase | 0 days | Wed 25-10-17 | Wed 25-10-17 |
| Initiation phase | 12 days | Thu 26-10-17 | Fri 10-11-17 |
| Developing tournament case | 4 days | Thu 26-10-17 | Tue 31-10-17 |
| Undertaking feasibility study | 3 days | Wed 01-11-17 | Fri 03-11-17 |
| Establishing project charter | 2 days | Mon 06-11-17 | Tue 07-11-17 |
| Appointing team members | 3 days | Wed 08-11-17 | Fri 10-11-17 |
| Milestone: Completion of initiation phase | 0 days | Fri 10-11-17 | Fri 10-11-17 |
| Execution phase | 28 days | Mon 13-11-17 | Wed 20-12-17 |
| Documenting the significance of qualified referees | 4 days | Mon 13-11-17 | Thu 16-11-17 |
| Contacting local colleges | 5 days | Fri 17-11-17 | Thu 23-11-17 |
| Buying rewards | 6 days | Fri 24-11-17 | Fri 01-12-17 |
| Procedure of charging entry fee | 5 days | Mon 04-12-17 | Fri 08-12-17 |
| Sale of tournament t-shirts | 4 days | Mon 11-12-17 | Thu 14-12-17 |
| Development of silk-screen design for the tournament | 4 days | Fri 15-12-17 | Wed 20-12-17 |
| Milestone: completion of execution phase | 0 days | Wed 20-12-17 | Wed 20-12-17 |
| Closure phase | 13 days | Thu 21-12-17 | Mon 08-01-18 |
| Reviewing project | 11 days | Thu 21-12-17 | Thu 04-01-18 |
| Stakeholder's sign off | 1 day | Fri 05-01-18 | Fri 05-01-18 |
| Documentation | 1 day | Mon 08-01-18 | Mon 08-01-18 |
| Milestone: completion of closure phase | 0 days | Mon 08-01-18 | Mon 08-01-18 |
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