Marketing
Small Scale Facility Project Risk Management
The Small scale facility project requires a serious risk management to success. In first place, the financial department will classify the project as non priority project for Petco due the low rate of return expected. Secondly, the top management is not very convinced of the success of the project. They argue that the cost of adding the four reactors is as expensive as installing the two production reactors. And finally, the priorities in the company change every day to cope with activities of many other projects that are executed simultaneously at Petco. These disadvantages lead to consider a series of event that can jeopardize the successful completion of the project. In this paper, a risk assessment will be developed for the small scale facility project to be implemented in Petco.
Project execution plan
Petco's project department has completed more than three hundred important process projects during the last twenty years. According to Petco's chief project manager, Alvaro Bermudez, the company has established standards for project development using outsourced resources. He states that more than one hundred people work every year on the different projects. Process, operation, mechanical, electrical, Instrumentation, and automation discipline constitute the work breakdown structure (WBS) of any project in Petco. Every one of those disciplines exist a designated leader who report to the overall chief project manager.
The small scale facility project would be scheduled and planned under Petco's project development standards to take advantage of the huge experience of the personnel involved their projects. The main stages of Petco's standard procedures for project developing are (1) definitions, (2) detailed design, (3) bidding and purchase, (4) execution, (5) testing, (6) start up, (7) training. The first six stages run in sequence. Overlapping is common between some of the stages, i.e. one...
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