PROJECT MANAGEMENT

ASSIGNMENT

ABU TALHA FAROOQI

M. Arch. Medical Architecture

Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics

Jamia Millia Islamia

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Q1. Explain in detail the product scope and project scope. How the project scope

management is documented on the basis of various stages of project development.

PRODUCT SCOPE

The scope and functions that characterise the product, service or result comes under Product

Scope. Product scope is the main motive and objective behind any business activity. The drafting

and designing of Product scope will decide how successful the product is. Product scoping requires

extensive and exhaustive research on different fronts like market research, product need, feasibility

and viability study, market reach, cost benefit analysis etc etc. To create or plan to create any

product for the users, a product scope study is quintessential.

PROJECT SCOPE

Project scope is the work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product, service or result with

the specified features and functions. It includes the processes required to ensure that the project

includes all the work required, and only the work required in order to successfully complete the

project.

PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

1. Collect requirements:

It is the process of collecting and meeting the stakeholders needs to meet the project

objectives. These requirements must be analysed and documented in a detailed way so that

they can be measured.

2. Define Scope.

The process of developing a detailed description of a project. The inputs shall be in the form

of a Project Charter, Requirements Documentation, and Organisational Process Assets. The

outputs shall be in the form of a Project Scope Statement and Project Document Updates.

3. Create Work Breakdown Structure

It is about sub-dividing the project deliverables and work into smaller manageable components.

WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work.

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4. Verify Scope

This is about formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. Scope verification

is concerned with the acceptance of deliverables while quality control is concerned with

correctness of the deliverables and meeting quality requirements.

5. Control Scope

It is about monitoring the status of the project.

Managing changes to scope baseline.

Ensuring all requested changes and corrective measures are processed and

implemented.

Q2. What do you mean by total quality management in construction industry? Explain

various quality tools to achieve quality product.

Quality Management in construction industry is about conformance of the built reality with the

planned levels of quality in terms of material, workmanship and service. It is about creating

and following policies and procedures in order to ensure that the project meets the defined needs

and levels of quality it was intended for.

Since in a construction project there are numerous works and tasks to be accomplished, and

every work has to conform to a particular quality which has been decided, so it becomes

extremely important to plan, monitor and ensure that every subset of every task is carried out the

way it ought to be and this all should be in detailed documented form for an easy compliance.

VARIOUS QUALITY TOOLS:

1. Cost benefit Analysis

It is about understanding the relationship and connection between the cost undergoing in

achieving the quality and the benefit is giving back, so it boils down to higher productivity,

lower costs and increased stakeholder satisfaction.

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2. Cost of Quality

CoQ is the cost of conformance plus the cost of non-conformance. Conformance means

delivering products that meet requirements and fitness for use. Non-conformance means not

meeting quality expectations.

3. Basic Quality Tools:

o Cause & Effect Diagram

Tracing the problems source back to its actionable root cause.

o Flowcharts

A graphical representation of a process showing the relationship among process steps.

o Pareto Diagram

These are histograms or column charts representing a frequency distribution that help identify

and prioritise problem areas.

4. Benchmarking

Benchmarking involves comparing actual or planned project practices to those of other projects

in order to generate ideas for improvement and to provide a standard by which to measure

performance.

5. Design of Experiments

Design of experiment is a statistical method that helps identify which factors might influence

specific variables.

6. Statistical Sampling

Statistical sampling involves choosing part of a population of interest for introspection.

Appropriate sampling often reduces the cost of quality control.

7. Brainstorming

One of the most important tools in quality management is brainstorming. It is about discussing

a problem with the team, stakeholders. When every team member collectively discusses and

strives for the solution, then the best and most optimum opinion comes out as a result which is

most suitable under the circumstances and which can be applied as a corrective measure.

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8. Meetings.

Meetings are also an inherent part of quality control wherein the team members and

stakeholders meet, discuss and arrive at the solution of a particular problem or challenge.