Operations and Project Management

Operations Management

19-5BO4-01S

Deborah Fitzgerald-Moore

Callum Ruffman

19015894

16th December

Word Count: 1451

Contents

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Operations and Project Management

3.1 Role of the Project Manager

3.2 Project Planning

3.0 Tools and Techniques

4.3 Critical Path Analysis

4.4 Network Diagrams

4.5 Scheduling of Work

4.6 Gantt Charts

4.0 Project Closure

5.0 Case Study

6.0 Conclusion

7.0 References

1.0 Introduction

This report is going to focus on operations and project management in the events sector. It will look at the tools and techniques used and how they are applied in the industry

It will show and explain how tools like Microsoft project and Excel are usefull in project management.

2.0 Operations and project management

Operations management is the production, production is the creation of goods and services. No company will produce only ‘goods’. Service is a greater or lesser part of and production. It is the set of activities that created value in the form of goods and services by transforming inputs into out puts. Any activity is classed as a ‘operation’.

Project management is and approach of the planning, organizing and managing specific resources to achieve specific set goals. Gary and Larson define a project as a ‘complex non-routine one-time effort limited by time, resources and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs.’ Another definition by Krajewski is a project is ‘an interrelated set of activities with definite starting and ending points.’

Understanding what a project is truly you need to see how it is used in the events sector. I am using Glastonbury as the example. Glastonbury festival is the biggest music festival in the Uk, which is held once a year. Every year they manage to fill a area the size of oxford with camping, music and attendees.

According to Bowdin(2011) the 5 main stages of...