Consider the following scenario: You are a member of a youth soccer club that he
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Consider the following scenario:
You are a member of a youth soccer club that helps bring recreational players to a higher level of competition and preparing them for the Olympic Development Program and/or A-League tournaments. The club currently has 123 boys and girls (ranging in age from 5 to 16).
The club’s board of directors decided to sponsor a winter invitational soccer tournament to generate revenue. Given the boom in youth soccer, hosting winter tournaments has become a popular method for raising funds. The club needs funds to refurbish and expand the number of soccer fields in their home ground. Funds would also be used to provide partial or full scholarships to youths who need financial assistance in paying the annual club membership fee of $450.
You are a soccer enthusiast and a long-time associate of the club who had been elected as the tournament director and is responsible for organising the club’s first winter tournament. A committee meeting planned for a two-hour duration, was held on a Thursday evening at 6 pm, after you election to gather the members’ opinion.
You started the meeting by having everyone introduce themselves and by proclaiming how excited you were that the club was going to sponsor its own tournament. You then suggested that the committee brainstorm what needed to be done to pull off the event; you would record their ideas on a flipchart.
What emerged was a free-for-all of ideas and suggestions. One member immediately stressed the importance of having qualified referees and spent several minutes describing in detail how his son’s team was robbed in a poorly officiated championship game. This was followed by other stories of injustice on the soccer field. Another member suggested that they needed to quickly contact the local colleges to see if they could use their fields.
The committee spent more than 30 minutes talking about how they should screen teams and how much they should charge as an entry fee. An argument broke out over whether they should reward the winning teams in each age bracket with medals or trophies. Many members felt that medals were too cheap, while others thought the trophies would be too expensive. Someone suggested that they seek local corporate sponsors to help fund the tournament.
The proposed sale of tournament T-shirts and sweatshirts was followed by a general critique of the different shirts parents had acquired at different tournaments. One member advocated that they recruit an artist he knew to develop a unique silk-screen design for the tournament. The meeting adjourned 30 minutes late with only half of the members remaining until the end. Jane drove home with seven sheets of ideas and a headache.
You realised that organising this tournament would be a big project and will need proper planning. The first thing you wanted to do was to develop a WBS for the project.
Answer the questions below ( in details) with regards to the scenario and WBS provided:
Question A:
How would developing a WBS alleviate some of the problems that occurred during the first meeting and help you organise and plan the project?
Short answer –½ page max
Question B:
Where can you find additional information to help you develop a WBS for the tournament?
Short answer –½ page max
Question C:
How could you and your committee members use the WBS to generate cost estimates for the tournament? Why would this be useful information?
Short answer –½ page max
Explanation / Answer
- all the tasks on priority can be discussed first before people leave, and trivial can be discussed later.
- if this is shared with people before meeting, they will be ready with their views and insights and nor time will be wasted.
- everybody has some or the expertise, with the help o WBS everyveve can be allocated their roles and they can focus on their part rather than interfere in what others are doing
- I will have a clear idea as to who is reponsrespo for what...and supervision will be much easy.
- no duplication or repeatation of work and effort. And no unnecessary agruments.
- clear idea of what is done, what is left and last minute check list.
- create and additional directory or hand book : this document will have in detail description about everything you need to know about the tournament such as flow, people involved in a particular task, additional information etc.
- we will first figure out what all operations need funds based on the WBS, and prepare a complete aggregate.
- then segregate which require huge funds and which require small funds.
- then we can work on getting sponsors and donations for the expensive operations.
- and can plan for other operations do you charge fees from the clubs coming to play or fond out other ways.
- the estimate will also help us understand if we are spending extra for any of the operations, which could be used for some other operation.