ASSIGNMENT # 1

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SUBMITTED TO
SIR. AHSEN KHAN

SUBMITTED BY
Hafiza Huma Tariq 016
SyedaFizza Shah 022
Tayyaba Fahad 015
Mudassar Shakoor 024

Quaid-i-Azam School of Management Sciences,

Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad
 UP IN THE AIR
Project Report

Q:Define the following.

What was the project?
The project was about firing employees. The main project was to use a WebChatfor this
purpose. This is kind of in-sourcing,by the organization, hiring the resources to make the job
done. It may not be warmer than firing someone in person, but it saves a lot of money on
airfare. The thing to notice is how Reitman the director of the film, likes to start with the way
corporations justify immoral behaviour and then apply their rationalizations with perfect
logic. That method was at the core of this project.

How was it initiated and who initiated the project?

The project initiated when the corporate wants to fire employees and looking for a
Termination Facilitator. Like Bingham in the movie who fires people for a living. When
corporations need to downsize quickly but hate the mess, he flies in and breaks the news to
the new former employees. In hard times, his business is great for him.
The Bingham’s company hire a girl name Natalie Keener who is a very bright and ambitious
girl who takes this job of firing, on web chat. Bingham teaches her the way on this road.

Discuss the planning of it.

Craig is laughing that the monetary downturn has made a magnificent open door for their
firm, and presents Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), a crisp youthful comer who has as of late
graduated at the highest point of her class at Cornell. Natalie presents an on-line screen that
will be utilized to flame individuals from a remote area over the web, taking out the
requirement for human asset experts, for example, Ryan to travel. Ryan is dismayed at the
unoriginality of the procedure - and, we think, at the loss of his movement benefits. After the
gathering, he goes to Craig's office to dissent. Natalie goes along with them, and Ryan
discloses to her that she remains unaware of the substances of terminating a man. She
splendidly reveals to him that she studied brain research, and Ryan provokes her to flame
him. She goes up against the test, and attempts to flame him, bombing hopelessly. Afterward,
Craig blames him for not being a cooperative person and turning into a dinosaur. Craig
reveals to Ryan that Natalie will go with him out and about for the following couple of days
to take in the ropes, much to Ryan's mortification. At home, Ryan packs for another
excursion - his racks are as scanty as his loft, utilitarian, containing nothing that isn't
voyaging business clothing. He is chagrined when he understands that he needs to do the cut,
which does not exactly fit into his gear. At the airplane terminal, he checks in with his typical
proficiency, and after that murmurs when he sees Natalie touching base with a vast, illogical
bag. He compels her to purchase a bag that will fit in the overhead compartment, revealing to
her that he flies more than 370 days a year, and that not processing gear spares him what
might as well be called seven days a year. He mercilessly pares her pressing, hurling things
he esteems superfluous into the junk. In the security line, he gives her the advantage of his
voyaging background: Never get behind families or old individuals and endeavor to locate an
Asian, since Asians travel light, wear slip-on shoes, and in this manner travel through
security quicker. St. Louis: Alex calls Ryan as Ryan and Natalie are setting out toward the
auto rental. She's in Atlanta, and they attempt to coordinate covering time some place. They
consent to meet at SDF (Louisville). Ryan and Natalie enter another office and start their
activity of terminating individuals. Natalie is told to remain calm and just give them their
advantages bundle, yet she can't avoid speaking up with a stupidity when a man called Bob
(J.K. Simmons) asks what his family should do when he is on joblessness. Ryan, who has set
aside the opportunity to peruse Bob's resume, saves the meeting by helping him understand
this is an open door for him to pursue his fantasy of being a culinary expert. Weave leaves,
surrendered however less furious.-
How was it executed?
Combination between the issues influencing Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) by and by and
the issues influencing everybody in the story. In a story organized like this a similar sort of
issue that influences everybody will likewise be a similar thing that the Main Character is
battling with by and by. Why? Since it enables a crowd of people to encounter the aftermath
from an issue both unbiasedly and emotionally. Finish Stories dependably do this as it leaves
a crowd of people with a more noteworthy importance they can't achieve in their reality. In
Up In The Air, issues exist on the grounds that there are endeavors being made to lessen the
workforces of a few unique organizations, i.e. huge across the nation cutbacks. Also, there is
an endeavor by Ryan's organization, CTC, to utilize video-conferencing as a way to bring
down their costs. The two models are issues caused by the endeavors to lessen an
organization's dependence on individuals for profits.The same thing is going ahead inside
Ryan by and by as exemplified by his rucksack discourse. This is accurately what Up In The
Air was endeavoring to convey. Ryan's transformational change of character, while at first
look the proper activity, really conveyed him to a position of significantly more noteworthy
apprehension. Edification doesn't generally need to be a positive thing and there is nothing
amiss with a story that adopts this strategy. Actually, some may state that a story like this is
more genuine as it all the more intently takes after what occurs, all things considered. The
self-contradicting feeling this film has toward the end is because of the way that it was
organized as a Personal Tragedy. Ryan, as the Protagonist in the bigger story, is fruitful in his
endeavors to demonstrate what a terrible thought terminating individuals over the Internet is.

How was it monitored and controlled?

One last idea concerning the core of this story. Many would consequently expect that the
connection between Alex (Vera Farmiga) and Ryan speak to the enthusiastic center. All
things considered, they do invest a ton of energy in informal lodging in the long run
experiences passionate feelings for her. The issue with this is Alex has the equivalent
perspective that Ryan has. Presenting a character to somebody who figures simply like them
will do nothing for their advancement. It is just through elective perspectives on how the
world ought to be that characters are compelled to reconsider their partialities and
convictions. My better half had it right. On the off chance that Ryan had never met Natalie
(Anna Kendrick), his association with Alex would in any case be going. That is actually the
job an Influence Character should play on the Main Character of a story. Impact Characters
speak to the fourth wellspring of contention that numerous foolishly mix with the
Relationship Story. They enter the story and sparkle a light on whatever defenses the Main
Character experiences.Natalie's apparently guileless evaluations of how life ought to be are in
reality ground-breaking impetuses for Ryan's development. They contend forward and
backward over it, however in the end she starts to get through his tenacious state of mind. It is
exactly his association with her that powers him to develop to a point where he at long last
changes and discard his gathering for Alex.