You are employed as an Office Manager in a company based in the centre of London.

You are employed as an Office Manager in a company based in
the centre of London.

You are employed as an Office Manager in a company based in
the centre of London. The company provides consultancy services to businesses around the
world, particularly in the area of management development. All of the consultants work
remotely from home and the office function, with a team of 10 people, is purely administrative.
The Managing Director has announced that the offices will be relocated to the area around
Banbury, Oxfordshire in order to reduce costs. She has asked you to lead a small team from
the office and involve consultants to plan and execute this move.
She wishes to retain the same size administrative team.
In her announcement, she also conrmed the current business objectives and the specic
objectives associated with the move. These include:
Continuing to grow business income by 10% annually
Enhancing protability partially by reducing the physical costs associated with accommodation
Retaining the business earning capacity
Improving the quality of support the office provides to the consultants and clients
Improving the IT systems for the business
Minimising the human resource costs associated with the move particularly associated with
redundancy, recruitment and training
Task 1 – 750 words
The Managing Director wishes to understand the full implications of the office move. She has asked
you to prepare an initial report, which considers the various projects needed to deliver the move to
new premises.
● Appraise the business objectives listed above and identify the projects which will be needed
to successfully carry out the relocation.
● Considering your list of projects, develop the necessary project sub divisions and
produce high level estimates of the resources needed to complete one of these projects
including time and costs.
Assessment Criteria: divide the tasks as follow and divide each point properly
1.1 Identify projects required from an appraisal of established business objectives
1.2 Produce project sub-divisions and high-level estimates of time, resources and costs
This is a project management essay, I need you to evaluate properly the project and sub
projects in the first phase and then pick the case and evaluate it in details adopting project
management approaches.
Is vital that you go through the slides and ppt to understand how to structure the project.
Task 2 – 1300 words
The MD has read your report and agreed with the work completed to date. She now wishes to get an insight
into the way in which you believe the projects should be planned and delivered. She has also made it clear that
all members of the team need to have the same shared understanding. She has asked you to use your selected
project and produce a handbook on The Project Management Approach, for use by all members of the team.
The first section of this Handbook must:
● describe and evaluate a suitable methodology for your chosen project
● assess the feasibility of this project
● include a structure for the management and administration of the project
● define the roles and responsibilities of staff who will manage this project, producing a job description
and person specification for a Project Manager. This person specification must include the
interpersonal skills required for effective project management
Assessment Criteria: divide the tasks as follow and divide each point properly
1.3 Evaluate a project methodology suitable for the specific project
1.4 Assess the feasibility of a proposed project
2.1 Devise a structure for the management and administration of the project
2.2 Define the roles and responsibilities of the project manager
3.2 Demonstrate the interpersonal skills required for effective project management
Task 3 – 1250 words
In the second section of the Handbook you must prepare and describe a detailed project plan
Assessment Criteria: divide the tasks as follow and divide each point properly
Assessment Criteria:
2.3 Prepare a detailed project plan
Use Project management methodology at this stage (see slides attached) and also tables if you
think are needed, please be clear and consider all the aspects to implement the project, on top
of that consider also external consultant if needed and estimate a a feasable cost as well.

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