Project Management: Define Project Success – Construction project

Project Management: Define Project Success – Construction project

Type of document           Essay    3 Pages Subject area      Management      Academic Level  Undergraduate

Style     APA       references         3

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Project Management

Please define project success for a project that is being executed in your state (California) by a governmental agency (Caltrans). Writer, I have chosen the topic for you below with references to use in the paper. Provide a three page paper of narrative that addresses the following for the project you selected:

  • In less than half a page, describe the project and its scope.
  • Identify and then assess the main project objectives and intended outcomes.
  • Provide a substantive discussion of how you define success for this project, and explain your reasoning. – Please use the three triple constraints in project management: Scope, schedule, & Project.
  • Relate your definition for project success to the discussion of project objectives and intended outcomes discussed above.
  • Identify the key challenges in achieving success and the ways to overcome these challenges, and explain why you think so.

Paper Requirements:

  • Your paper must be a minimum of three pages, not including the required title page and references page.
  • Be sure to properly organize your writing and include an introduction, headings/subheadings for the body of your work, and a conclusion.
  • Format your entire paper in accordance with the APA writing format.

 Project: Bus/Carpool Lanes Phase 1 Project

Governmental Agency: Caltrans.ca.gov

http://www.caltrans.ca.gov/d3/projects/subprojects/00165/index.html

http://www.caltrans.ca.gov/d3/projects/subprojects/00165/files/PDF/FinalEIR-EA.pdf

DESCRIPTION

The Phase 1 of this project will construct approximately 19 miles of bus/carpool lanes on I-5 in the Sacramento area, from Beach Lake Bridge to Route 50 (PM 12.9/22.5). Phase 2 will construct 6 miles of bus/carpool lanes from 1.1 mile south of Elk Grove Blvd to Beach Lake Bridge (PM 9.7 / 12.9). Both Phase 1 and Phase 2 have been environmentally cleared.

PROJECT BENEFITS

  • Improve traffic operations by reducing congestion and travel time,
    • Provide more reliable peak period travel times for commuters, transit agencies and businesses,
    • Improve efficiency of regional and interregional trips, and
    • Provide travel time incentives for commuters to use carpools, vanpools or buses in peak travel periods

FUNDING BREAKDOWN

Local – $33.2 million
State – n/a
Federal – $8.5 million
Estimated Total Project Cost – $71.7 million ($30 million unfunded)
NOTE: This estimate is based on the assumption that this project will be combined with SAC 5 Rehabilitation Project.

PROJECT SCHEDULE

Project Approval & Environmental Document …………. June 2013
Complete Design ………………………………………………… March 2018
Advertise Project (if funds are available) ………………… June 2018
Begin Construction (if funds are available) …………….. October 2018
Complete Construction (if funds are available) ……….. December 2022

PARTNERSHIP

Caltrans, SACOG, STA, FHWA