Individual Report « Inde Espoir »

Tuesday, April 22nd 2011
Camille Naudin 10205560
The PM Lifecycle, MSc Elective, Jan 2011 semester, BMGT43700
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Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 1. Planning 4 2. Distributed Team Management 7 3. Stakeholder Management 8 4. Risk Management 10 5. Strengths and Weaknesses 13 6. Learning and take-aways 13 Conclusion 15 Appendices 16 Endnotes 17

Executive Summary

The Shorapur project main objective was to support the building of a school and of a social centre in close cooperation with the Indian Ursulines Community and the French association Inde Espoir. The project was to be located in South West India in the region of Karnataka, known to be one of the poorest and the most rural region of the country. Selected by the French association Inde Espoir, the project was then to be managed by a group of students and the Ursulines Community who would take care of the school and the social centre once they are built. The students would be in charge of fund raising to finance the project and would come during a month and a half in India to work with the local workers and help the project move on faster. The Ursulines Community would be in charge of managing the school and the social centre.
The Shorapur project is a telling example of a humanitarian project at a small scale, supported by volunteered students and expected to last on the long run thanks to various students team who would take care of the project in the following years. The project will be analysed on four major fields: planning, team management, stakeholder management and risk management. In the framework of a student