Some friends of yours are keen soccer players and often play…

Question Answered step-by-step Some friends of yours are keen soccer players and often play… Some friends of yours are keen soccer players and often play informal games on the weekend at the local community sports ground. They’d like to form an amateur soccer club and have about 15 members they reckon they can pull together, enough to play in amateur soccer matches against other teams in Melbourne. They are good at kicking a ball but not so good at planning, and they know you are a boffin when it comes to project management. They have some scrappy equipment that they use, but for a real soccer club they’d need some proper equipment, a venue with change-rooms, plus all the paraphernalia that goes into playing a proper soccer match as a team. This of course costs money, and they’ve managed to secure a local sponsor, plus they have an agreement from the council that they can have the soccer field (and the key to the changerooms) on Sundays. The first thing their sponsor asked is “how much?” and of course foremost in your friends’ minds is “when can we have our first kick-off as a real team?” – and that’s where you come in. The players are happy to provide you the details of what they need, but they want you to come up with the activities and tasks they’ll need to complete before they can invite their first neighbouring soccer team to play in an amateur match. (for this, you’ll need to rely on an internet search to get the soccer-specific details). Your project is therefore to provide them a set of planning documents that will answer both of the key questions above – how much, and by when? Your project ends when that first invited soccer team arrives to play against your friends’ team at their venue. You’ll need to draw on your background in Scheduling & Control, and basically your deliverables are:  • Make a list of 5 to 10 high-level activities that they will need to complete, to properly prepare for their first real match.  • After that, break these activities down into at least another two levels of sub-tasks in a WBS, to make it easier to estimate the time and cost of these sub-tasks.  • Finally, use the high-level activities to form a network/ schedule for this project.  • Use these tools to give you answers to the key questions below, and make sure these answers are included in your report.  Your Planning should give you answers to a number of key questions: – how long will it take before they can invite another team to play against their team? – how much will all of this cost, and how will the money be paid out over time? – what equipment will they need to buy/hire? – the sponsor wants an update halfway through, to check everything is on track – how will that update be presented? – are there other aspects that should be included in the planning? NB: this is an amateur soccer club, not a professional team – keep your assumptions simple and down-to-earth Business Management Project Management MAST 90048 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)