Dubai Metro Case Study

Steve Kaffen stated that he is a resident of D.C. living in the Dupont Circle area. He stated that Metro has a credibility problem. The outreach from the Board and the GM are extremely important to addressing this issue. To compensate for the possible change in service hours on the Metrorail, Mr. Kaffen suggest that Metro run a heavy bus system throughout major section of each jurisdiction in order to give customers ample transportation. Mr. Evans indicated that Metro has been working on such a proposal to run Metrobus everywhere there is a rail line. This will ensure that all customers are served.

592 Week 1 DQ 1 WBS Construction PROJ 592 Week 1 DQ 2 Project Cost Estimates and Assumptions PROJ 592 Week 2 DQ 1 Cost Components PROJ 592 Week 2 DQ 2 Estimating Processes PROJ 592 Week 3 DQ 1 Project Schedules PROJ 592 Week 3 DQ 2 Sensitivity Analysis PROJ 592 Week 4 DQ 1 Resource Allocation and Leveling PROJ 592 Week 4 DQ 2 Advanced Schedule Techniques PROJ 592 Week 5 DQ 1 Earned Value Calculation PROJ 592 Week 5 DQ 2 Project Monitoring and Control & EV PROJ 592 Week 6 DQ 1 Forecasting Project Completion Cost PROJ 592 Week 6 DQ 2 Project Control PROJ 592

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After setting the entire project to 40% complete on Oct 1, 2008 we can see that the project is behind schedule. The schedule variance of the entire project is $ (736,599) and Schedule performance index is at 0.68, which indicates that for every $1.00 spent in the project we are only getting $0.68 worth of work done. Since we do not have actual cost data, the MS Project calculates the budget is under budget by a negligible $80.

When considering factors that didn’t go well as far as schedule the project took a steep hit. While the initial item started on time, it ended two days later than was initially planned. This meant that “Set product Specs” was 2 days late starting. With this project each line item has a predecessor. This means that they cannot start until the previous item is finished. With this every portion of the project was late starting and threw the entire project off. With regards to the cost “Need Survey” was over budgeted by $6,400 and “Set product spec” was over budgeted by $11,520.

The textbook seems to focus more on the negative aspects or all that went wrong with the project whereas the video, although speaking extensively on the many challenges faced, still paint the project as an overall success. I’m not sure if was because I watched the film, with all the visuals, before reading the text, nevertheless, I found myself seeing the project more optimistically even with the new learned facts from the text. Our text raised the question of whether the original cost estimates given were in good faith or “turned” to meet political realities, and I believe the answer to be the latter. It is extremely hard to comprehend how anyone, much less the government, believed a project of this magnitude and enormous would come close to 2 billion and take just a couple years to complete. I mean even I thought it would take at least a decade to complete. Project Managers have been known to deliberately understate the cost involved to secure a bid however, this seems overly extreme besides I think officials tried to keep the factual cost estimates under wraps for the sake of this very much needed new transportation system. Nonetheless, costs increased across all contracts throughout the project’s life cycle despite enormous efforts to transfer, mitigate, or avoid risk and contain

The political factor is the main role in the development of any company. Emirates play an active role in public international aviation policy analysis which has a key impact on the aviation industry. In addition emirates airline play a major role as well in in helping Dubai government achieving its objective of raise the city as a promote tourists destination. The political environment returns on how the government policies are made their regulation like, Current taxation policy, Future taxation policy the current and future political support, donation, exchequer, and

Total Transit’s first core value is Be Safe. Providing a safe environment for our employees, partners and customers is our top priority. Total Transit utilizes the guidance from the FTA to operate under a System Safety and System Security plan to ensure that all hazards are identified an acted upon. Every Total Transit employee and partner are empowered and encourage to identify and report any potential safety or security concern.

Complexity could another reason for bad cost performance. The most of mega project, such as project Comanche, could be defined as complexity. When estimating mega project, it always will be affected by some errors, for instance inflation, exchange rates, change

Today’s experience was pretty much a unique one. Probably because it was not done individually but it was required to be done in groups. It was amazing to do a community investigation and have four completely different people jump on a Metrorail together. I was amazed of what everyone had to say, the differences in opinions and the type of discussions that we were having between one another. To begin with I knew I was going to be one of the few to be excited to hop on the Metrorail and explore the different areas of Houston which my hypothesis was right. I can still recall how everyone followed me to the station when they found out I have used the Metrorail before. To be honest I thought it was pretty funny to the point, I walked around campus

The success of Emirates can be attributed through a combination of marketing mix which emphasize on excellent customer service, product and equipment. In addition, Emirates is known for its commitment to the highest standards of quality in every aspect of their business, providing premium service be it in first, business or economy class. We will look into a few P’s of the marketing mix that Emirates currently employ to become one of the most profitable

ABI is using a top-down process in this project, meaning that determination of the final budget comes almost strictly from a compilation of experiences and judgments of the top and mid-level managers in the company. The higher-level managers break down costs into major categories, pass down their cost estimates to the next lowest level, lower-level managers break the major categories down into subcategories and so on until the estimation process reaches the lowest level of the company. By the end, each level knows the specific amount of money that it is allotted to complete the project tasks required at that level. Because the project is so extensive in price and risk, it would have been smarter for them use a bottom-up process which would have involved the employees who would actually be part of the work team so that management could get a more accurate estimate of the time and money that would be required to complete the project.

7.0 Budget Estimate and Financial AnalysisA preliminary estimate of the cost for the entire project is $200,000. This includes the hire of a temporary project manager, and the hours used by current employees to work on the project. Project savings comes in the form of reduced health insurance cost due to a healthier workforce that makes fewer claims.

Was the project scope defined clearly at early stage? Identify one major scope change throughout the project life and discuss the effects of scope changes on project performance?

Even with prior planning uncertainties will happen. In this case, the contractor decided to outsource the concreted for the paid. The problem is that the concrete was not with codes and had to be removed and repoured. This delay caused budget overruns. This goes back to the quality not being measured in the earned value management (EVM) system. The 30 day project turned into 60 days and was ultimately over budget but the difference was paid by the contractor. Even