17 Aug The World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia
Scenario: The World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia
You have been hired as a consultant by the World Cup Soccer Project in Ethiopia Committee to manage the planning, execution, and closeout of all World Cup Soccer games in Ethiopia-East Africa.
The assignment is known as the “World Cup Soccer Games in Ethiopia Project” and the goal is to produce a report addressing project management activities and tasks that will be handled by the team that you will lead. There are a total of 20 teams and although all travel (flights, bus, etc.) into Ethiopia will be handled by participating countries, your team is responsible to coordinate the following:
- Hotel stay
- Food
- Transportation to the games
- Medical personnel
- Security
- Other
In your report, you should provide information on how your company plans to coordinate the activities during the game. This includes everything from choosing the venues to what time the activities should start/end. Your Project Management proposal execution report should also discuss the challenges and mitigation strategies that you and your team will implement for the World Cup Soccer Games in Ethiopia that will take place for 20 days in Ethiopia in 2026.
Connect your report to what you have learned in the textbooks by Gido, Clements, and Harold Kerzner by including, at minimum, the following topics:
- Project initiation (project selection)
- Effective project management
- Project planning
- Work breakdown structures (WBS)
- Managing risks
- Costs and budgets
- Schedules (time/delivery)
- Internal and external resource utilization (team)
- Project communications
- Performance and monitoring of the World Cup Soccer Games project
- Project closure
- Lessons learned
