Project Plan For Whitbread World Sailboat Race
Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race
Bjorn Erickson was selected as the project manager to design and equip his country’s sailboat entry into the Whitbread Sailboat race due to his past experience as a master helmsman and his recent fame as the “best designer of racing sailboats in the world” (Gray and Larson, 2005, p. 305). The Whitbread Sailboat race will start in 45 weeks and Bjorn must use his time wisely to build a new vessel and test it, and to recruit the racing team and train them. With the kickoff meeting, initial projections show that the current schedule will take 50 weeks to finish with a final budget estimate of $3 million. Although the project estimate comes in under budget, the time frame for completion extends beyond the acceptable 45 weeks. Therefore, the following analysis takes a closer look at the project’s conditions by developing a project priority matrix, project network, and a Gantt chart to help Bjorn Ericksen and his team reduce the project duration. Reducing the project timeline without budget is a difficult matter as usually decreasing the timeline costs money. This paper will describe Bjorn’s strategy analysis, the plan to reduce project duration, and project closure to complete the project. To begin the analysis, Bjorn’s strategy for this project will be discussed.
Bjorn Ericksen Project Strategy Analysis
Bjorn Ericksen was selected as the project manager for his country to get a new sailboat ready for the Whitbread World Sail Boat race. The race is a nine month race around the world. In the last few years, about 14 countries entered sailboats in the race. The sailboats in the race represent the latest technologies and human skill each country has to offer. To get the project off the ground, Bjorn picked two team leaders, Karin Knutsen (chief design engineer) and Trygve Wallvik (master helmsman) to be responsible for preparing next year’s entry into the race. Bjorn tasked Karin and Trygve...
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