The Idea Case

The idea

Being a house owner  Building up a family house based on the following requirements:

- Owning land where to build-up the house

- Choosing the right construction partner who is able to support not only during the construction phase but also in terms of a lot of relevant policies

- Choosing the 'right' prefabricated house (this should be simplify the building-up process as 1 part of the comprehensive project)

- In order to meet sustainable energy policy standards a roof usable for solar energy should be constructed

- After no more than 25 years the financial benefit to own property shall have positive affect

- The deadline to finish the project = to be able to move in and having a workable heating, energy, water and dry basement is Xmas which means the duration of the project shall not exceed 18 months

Why is it a project?

The final product and the way how to get/produce it is unique. There might be many houses to be build up anywhere - but it always is a house and not the house. The undertaken adventure of the project will remain unrepeatable in its comprehensive view.

Additionally the second requirement for the project definition has been fulfilled: the adventure has been temporarily which means it had a defined time of start and end.

What is the project scope?

The project scope in general has been defined in the idea above and can be visualized as follows:

Time: Xmas

Cost: Deliverable:

According financial plan The house available as planned

During the project there has been several problems where we had to decide how to go on as there are always more than one option, for instance at the expense of

Time: moving in later than planned if reducing the project team

Cost: moving in earlier than planned if hiring an additional project team

Deliverable: saving time and cost if no construction of solar energy roof  reducing quality

Whenever we adjusted the plan we had to consider requirements out of options, for instance certain state policies.

How can the project be classified?

According the classification structure given in the script, I would go to name it a 'hard project' due to the fact that the final