Project Budget
Team C
What is the total budget for this project?
The total budget set for Empire Island Convention Center is $300,000
Variable Costs are at the following
Utilities:
Electrical $3,500 -$6,000
Gas $4,500 - $7,200
Labor:
Hourly Workers (Wages) $10,000 – 15,000
Commissions:
Sales Department $2,000 - $10,000
Materials:
Brochures $450 - $600
Delivery Costs $1,500 - 2,800
Food Services $25,000 - $50,000
Miscellaneous materials:
Building Materials (Raw) $30,000 - $100,000
Fixed Costs set at the following:
Advertisement $1,600
Phone bill $5,400
Salaries ( Executive and Non-Executive) $60,000
Insurance $7,800
Accounting Services (external) $3,500
Property taxes $5,650
Does this budget make sense?
Empire Island Convention
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Per use Costs (Variable Costs) are the single amounts that it costs each time we use specific resources.
What can be done to lower the budget and reduce the project’s duration?
There are many things that we, Empire Island Convention Center, can do to lower costs to help bring the bar of the budget lower. One way is to cut back in the human resource sector. We can assure that all work is done within an eight-hour day to reduce the costs of over time. Also, we can hire seasonal or temporary workers to reduce our work force numbers.
As far as lowering the costs in regard to our Utility services, we can install light switches that are motion sensored. Each unit (conference room) can have its on power source so that when rooms are not in use, electricity is not overburdened.
Reducing the duration of the project may prove to be difficult. Each Seminar (Convention) is based on a case-by-case basis as stated previously. Each client may entail variations in timing. Each client is totally independent of any other scenario or case that is transpiring at the
The period of the project is one of the most reason that directly affects to the result. Some parts of the project need a plenty of time to expertise and complete. For example, the calculations of the project need to send to the manager of the project as well as costing a lot of time for adjustments and approval. Normally, this project need more than 6 months to complete the designs and 6 months for the installations.
Describe common practices to estimate the duration of project activities as well as real reasons that cause project delays.
The amount of time that will be required to complete each work package will be estimated by recommending the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with the estimated resources. All estimated duration times will be reported in whole hours, rounding any partial hours up to the next whole hour. Partial days will be rounded up to the next whole day. The estimated duration times will be reviewed and must fall in line with the scheduled Project completion date.
Hamilton is reasonably big, with tons of three-story buildings, classrooms, and many more lights. I have noticed that, during different times of the day, even when almost all the teachers and students have left, all the lights in our two main three-story buildings stay on. Tons of money and energy is wasted from simply not turning off lights when they are not needed. Another problem is that my school offers many programs such as graphic design and digital imaging, where computers are in use, however are not being conserved of their power well enough. Not only are rows of computers used in classrooms, but also in our school library, and other devices such as printers and copiers are used similarly. My final example is the huge amount of water my school wastes in our bathrooms. There are so many solutions to fix all of these problems Hamilton faces, and with these ideas of how to solve and reduce them, I hope and believe one day they will take advantage of
This chapter a study of literature on the topic of delay causes and objectives of project time, cost, and quality.
Cut overhead expenses by reviewing the expense reports and advised the department heads to control the spending according to budget. Slashed the payroll and benefits administration cost 30% by negotiating prices and fee while ensuring an enhancement of services.
One way project teams add safety to duration estimates is to overestimate the time to complete individual activities. Team members may pad the activity time to ensure that they will be able to meet the promised deadline. This padding is augmented by the
One of the main concerns during the meeting was the impact of cost and time constraints on networking techniques and project schedules. Under the ideal situation, the project start and end dates are fixed. Adding resources is not usually feasible as it increases cost. There should be a balance between time and cost constraints as it avoids wasting of resources. Also most people are willing to accept that costs could exceed expectations, and might even take a perverse delight in recounting past examples, the same is not true for time constraints. This is probably due to the fact that cost over runs are resolved in-house, while schedule issues are open and visible to the customer. A company has a lot of useful, desirable work that could be done, but has limited and finite resources available with which to do that work. Choices have to be made about which work to do and how to allocate resources. This leads to constraints especially, the time constraint and the cost constraint. Time, in project management, is analyzed down to its smallest detail. Each and every component of the project is analyzed with respect to the time required for completion. After completion of this analysis these components are broken down even further into the time required to do each task.
In field of project management, there are a plethora of mechanisms under perpetual reevaluation. One specific segmentation of project management under such scrutiny pertains to cost duration, which is the time and monetary costs of completing individual tasks within the project’s critical path (IBM Knowledge Center, 2016). The process of monitoring and evaluating the time and financial impacts of each task is referred to as cost duration analysis (IBM Knowledge Center, 2016). A chief concern of cost duration analysis is identifying tasks within the project’s critical path which can reduce project duration (PMI, 2013). A common approach to reducing a project’s duration is task “crashing” (PMI, p.181). According to The Project Management Institute (2013) crashing refers to the process of methodical determining the financial value of increasing a critical path task’s resources in order to decrease project duration (p.181).
A cost is fixed if, within a specified period of time, it does not change in response to changes in the level of activity. A variable cost is one that changes in response to changes in the level of activity, it changes in direct proportion to the volume of activity, that is, doubling the level of activity will double the total variable cost total cost over a period of time for the variable inputs. Any increase in the volume of production results in an increase in the variable cost and vice versa. For example, of variable costs is the cost of raw material.
In such a setting, the project has to be rethought so that it is best completed within the initial delivery time, but with consideration to the new challenges. At a more specific level, the time allocated to drywall and framing would be doubled. With this objective in mind, the proposed schedule is as follows:
“Time” is another challenge facing stakeholder management. Time is a challenge in different aspects as explained. Some stakeholders especially the client will increase the scope and still want the project to be delivered on the initial time frame and are not ready to understand and accept the revised schedule. In another setting time is a challenge because sometimes due to limited time available, not all stakeholder claims and expectation can be fulfilled. Expanding on this one
Reducing the duration a project can be managed by reducing the duration of an activity/activities almost always results in higher direct cost. When the duration of a critical activity is reduced, the project’s critical path can be change with other activities and that new path will determine the new project completion date. Following are three options to reducing project duration.
Having 3 days of delay in electrical can affect the whole project. Therefore, the negotiation of 15 working days would exceed up to 18 days, which could cause the penalty of $300 ($100 per extra day). In order to minimise a project’s critical path, sequencing of tasks should be changed. On the off chance that one can do a project’s tasks in alternate grouping to that initially proposed, one might have the capacity to shorten the critical path. A level of intricacy by striving for shortening the critical path, which is primarily hazardous, is unavoidably acquainted with the task. (Aydar, 2014) With a specific end goal to convey this shorter timescale, the critical path should be controlled
In other words, variable cost per unit is equal to the slope of the cost volume line (i.e. change in total cost ÷ change in number of units produced).