Assignment No.

4 – Team Project

Project: Organization of a Marriage

Background: You are part of a small-sized, reasonably successful Matrimonial services organization. So far, you
have been providing electronic and personalized match-making services to clients on subscription-basis. Since
the annuity revenue is not assured and the organization’s growth is not scalable in the subscription model, you
are thinking of getting into large-scale (big-time) end-to-end event organization of marriages, A prospective
client (Prospective couple and/or their parents) approaches you for organization of the marriage, in a year from
now. The proposed budget is INR 73 lakhs, but it may go up or down (!)

 Project Start: your proposal to your top management on the need to enter the big-ticket marriage
organization segment (commercial, operational, strategic and tactical)

 Project End: Event Completion, Final Payment from the Client and to the Vendor(s)

Project – what is expected

 Deliverables:
A. Project Charter (that you are assisting your Project Sponsor with) consisting of
a. Executive Summary of the Diversification Project to your top Management
b. Need – commercial, strategic, operational etc., for the Diversification and this project [why
this Prospect?]
c. Overall Scope, Time, Cost, Constraints and Assumptions

B. Executive Summary of the Proposal to the Prospect

C. Project Management Plan covering

 Detailed Project Management Plan, consisting of
1. Scope - Work, Phases, milestones and measures
2. Time – Total and phase-wise
3. Cost – Total and phase-wise
4. Risk – Total and phase-wise (with contingency plan)
5. Resources – Men, Material and Machinery
6. Quality – Exit criteria (metrics) for successful completion
7. Communication - Status Report (contents, mode, frequency and recipients)
8. Procurement – Since vendors are engaged for/in the project
9. Stakeholders - List of Stakeholders and the strategy of managing them

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Project – what is expected
 Everyone in the team to be a Project Manager
 Collective wisdom due from both the PMs
 Realistic Data (locations, cost, price, fees), obtainable from published sources and verifiable
 A nice blend of bullets and detailed, but realistic writing
 Formal documents, spell-checked and presentable
 Deliverables in not more than 15 pages
 Electronic submission
 Teams to use templates, if they do have/want
 When using templates obtained from erstwhile organizations or elsewhere, please be aware of
copyright issues

Project – assessment methodology

 Project Charter - 15 marks
 Scope, Time, Cost, Risk & Resources - 75 marks (5*15)
 Quality, Communication & Procurement - 10 marks (2*5) [2 or best 2 of 3]

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