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FEDERAL URDU UNIVERSITY OF ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ISLAMABAD PROJECT MANAGEMENT: SMALL AND MEGA PROJECT Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limilted Submitted to: Mr M Waseem Submitted by: Hassan Ahmad Atif Mehmood BBA 7 th

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FEDERAL URDU UNIVERSITY OF ARTS, SCIENCE

AND TECHNOLOGY, ISLAMABAD

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: SMALL AND MEGA

PROJECT

Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limilted

Submitted to:

Mr M Waseem

Submitted by:

Hassan Ahmad

Atif Mehmood

BBA 7th

Date of Submission: 14th January 2013

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Preface

This report holds some basic information on the given topic ‘project management: small and

mega project. I had to go through some organizational study, surf through the internet to get this

project done and going through these stuffs was really interesting and informative. I have tried to

include much information about the topic.    

This report consists of an introduction to small and mega projects, their issues and

implementation in real life projects. I hope the contents of this report will give the readers a

quick look of the small and mega project and will be informative to them.

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Acknowledgement

This report has only been successful because of the help of some people. First and foremost, I

would like to thank my teacher, Mr. M Waseem, for giving me this task from which I could learn many

things and also for guiding me whenever his guidance was necessary. This project would not

even have been started without his help and support.

Next, I would like to thank the following without whose help and support this project would not

have been possible.

AVP Abdul Qadeer Javaid (credit policy department)

SVP Ali Hasan (research and planning department)

SVP Naveed Ahmad (data bank)

AVP Mujahid (project manager)

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Junior Manager Atif Ranjha (accounts)

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CONTENTS

Small Project Management..............................................................................................................2

Managing Small Projects Resources:..........................................................................................2

Project Proposal Template.......................................................................................................2

Project Business Plan Template...............................................................................................2

Review & Closure Report Template........................................................................................2

Accept the Project Manager Role................................................................................................2

Methodologies.............................................................................................................................3

Defining objectives and scope.................................................................................................3

Defining deliverables...............................................................................................................4

Project Planning...........................................................................................................................4

Instructions for Project Plan............................................................................................................5

Identify all the players or stakeholders........................................................................................5

The sponsor..............................................................................................................................5

The customer...........................................................................................................................6

Other executives......................................................................................................................6

The end users...........................................................................................................................6

Team Members........................................................................................................................6

Communication............................................................................................................................7

Instructions for Communication Management:.......................................................................7

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Tracking and reporting progres...................................................................................................8

Change management....................................................................................................................8

Risk management.........................................................................................................................9

Instructions for Risk Management:.......................................................................................10

Instructions for Scope Statement:..............................................................................................10

1) Customer Requirements:.................................................................................................10

2) Deadline:...........................................................................................................................11

3) Budget Cap:.......................................................................................................................11

4) What is not in this project's scope?...................................................................................11

Determine Required Project Results:.....................................................................................11

Organize the requirements into logical groups or phases......................................................12

Get stakeholder agreement on the required project results....................................................13

Define the Project Work Plan........................................................................................................13

Requirement list to define project work plan............................................................................13

You decide how the work is broken down............................................................................14

Use the project work plan to build the task list.....................................................................14

Assign a preliminary duration to the tasks............................................................................14

Indicate important task relationships and sequencing issues.................................................15

project management software with caution...........................................................................15

Develop the Project Risk Plan.......................................................................................................16

Corrective Actions.....................................................................................................................17

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Compensate for tasks that are taking too long.......................................................................18

Compensate for tasks costing too much................................................................................18

Check resources and precursors.............................................................................................18

Check on skills and obstacles................................................................................................19

Correct issues where unscheduled tasks are being worked...................................................19

Correct Inadequate Tasks and Deliverables..........................................................................19

Report Project Status.................................................................................................................20

Communicate accurately and often.......................................................................................20

Focus on schedule, cost, achievement, and changes.............................................................20

Highlight budget reevision....................................................................................................21

Report project status..............................................................................................................21

Use variances to forecast future performance.......................................................................21

Present an action plan to correct or improve progress...........................................................21

Sometimes negotiation is your only option...........................................................................21

Perform a Formal Project Close................................................................................................22

Conduct the official turnover.................................................................................................22

Gather and file the project documentation.............................................................................23

Issue an announcement..........................................................................................................23

Hold a final meeting with the team........................................................................................23

Reward the team members.....................................................................................................23

Organizational Setup.....................................................................................................................24

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Credit operations Department (Project Management Unit).......................................................25

Aim........................................................................................................................................25

Objectives..............................................................................................................................25

Credit Operations Unit...........................................................................................................25

Credit Planning and Monitoring Unit....................................................................................26

Projects Management.....................................................................................................................26

Small Project Management:.......................................................................................................27

Project Initiation:...................................................................................................................27

Project Planning:....................................................................................................................27

Project Execution:..................................................................................................................27

Project Monitoring & Control:..............................................................................................28

Project Closure:.....................................................................................................................28

Different small Projects:................................................................................................................29

MEGA PROJECT..........................................................................................................................30

THEORETICAL ASPECTS..........................................................................................................30

The Traditional View of Project Controls.................................................................................30

Some Emerging Views of Projects............................................................................................32

Chaos Theory and Complexity..............................................................................................32

Projects as Temporary Knowledge Organisations (TKOs) & Social Networks6..................32

Attributes of a ‘Good’ Schedule – The document.....................................................................32

Understanding the purpose of the Project Schedule..............................................................33

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Designing the Project Schedule.............................................................................................33

Developing the scheduling framework..................................................................................33

Developing the Baseline schedule.........................................................................................33

Maintaining the schedule.......................................................................................................33

Attributes of an Effective Scheduler – The person....................................................................34

Pre-initiation (commitment / feasibility planning)................................................................34

Initiation and Planning (execution scheduling).....................................................................34

Executing and monitoring & controlling (performance control)...........................................34

ORGANIZATIONAL VIEWS..................................................................................................35

The Unexpected Challenge....................................................................................................35

A Different Breed..................................................................................................................35

Size........................................................................................................................................36

Complexity............................................................................................................................37

Complex Procurement Contracting.......................................................................................37

Controversy............................................................................................................................37

Time.......................................................................................................................................37

Scope Creep...........................................................................................................................38

Human and Environmental Impacts......................................................................................38

Risk and Uncertainty.............................................................................................................39

Megaprojects Need to Maintain Public Support........................................................................39

Requirement for Project Proponents......................................................................................39

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Managing in a Fishbowl........................................................................................................40

Potential for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse..................................................................................40

Defining Megaproject Success—There Is A "Bigger" Picture..................................................40

PRACTICAL ASPECTS...............................................................................................................42

Corporate Objectives.................................................................................................................42

Transformation of ZTBL to R.F.I of the country and road to excellence.................................43

project types...............................................................................................................................43

project loans...........................................................................................................................44

General loans.........................................................................................................................45

Term wise loans.....................................................................................................................45

Green revolution project............................................................................................................45

White revolution project............................................................................................................46

Establishment Of Model Village by ZTBL...............................................................................48

energy saving PROJECT (Bio Gas Units).................................................................................48

Project manager.........................................................................................................................49

project management...................................................................................................................49

issues in project management................................................................................................49

Success rate................................................................................................................................51

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SMALL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

A small project is one where there is a project team of 2 or less, the project’s schedule is flexible,

of internal interest only, has a budget of less than $25K, impacts a single business unit, and has

no major dependencies or inter-related projects.

MANAGING SMALL PROJECTS RESOURCES:

Resources that are specifically designed to assist in managing small projects have been

developed. These include:

PROJECT PROPOSAL TEMPLATE

It is usually the first document outlining what change is proposed. It is the document that

converts an idea or policy into the details of a potential project.

PROJECT BUSINESS PLAN TEMPLATE

It is the management document for the project. It is owned, maintained and utilized by the

Project Sponsor/Line Manager to ensure the delivery of project outputs and the realization of

project outcomes. It is also the management document for the Project Manager. Risk and Issues

Registers, and Status Report Templates.

REVIEW & CLOSURE REPORT TEMPLATE

It is the final document produced for the project and is used by senior management to assess the

success of the project, inform future projects, ‘tidy up’ any loose ends and formally close the

project.

ACCEPT THE PROJECT MANAGER ROLE

“The first thing to do is to accept the Project Manager role by making yourself known to the

stakeholders and diplomatically letting them know you're on the job”

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A Project Manager is every bit a manager even though the project manager role may only last for

the life of the project. You're given a goal and a team of people and the mission of achieving the

goal successfully. You, the people you work for, and your team are all players in the project and

will determine its success or failure. If you're going to live up to the project manager role, you

have to begin by taking control of the project.

METHODOLOGIES

It can seem that project management methodologies are all about the process and not about

getting things done.  Sometimes it’s tempting to make it simpler, make it lighter, or skip a step or

two. Project management methodologies are intended as a tool to make you successful, not as a

means to an end. It’s okay to simplify for a small project and deepen for a large complex project,

or even a program.

DEFINING OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE

Even on the smallest project there will be objectives which must be achieved. As a project

manager, it is in your interest to define what these objectives are since you are likely to be

assessed on whether the project meets those objectives. It is your responsibility to ensure the

project meets those objectives and you are accountable for this. In short, the book stops with you

Now suppose you don't define and write down what the objectives are, you are always going to

be at the mercy of any boss who decides he's got it in for you. The defined and documented set

of objectives is your insurance policy against your manager later coming along and saying you

didn't meet the objectives.

However, there is another reason why you still need to define and document the objectives even

on a small project. You want to satisfy the needs of the stakeholders since that is what you are

paid to do as a project manager. If the objectives aren't defined, then you won't be able to meet

those needs through your project.

Similarly with defining the scope. The scope forms the boundary of your project. If you don't

define what it is, the likelihood is that it will grow and grow as the project progresses and

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although you might have started managing a very small project, before long your project could

become very much bigger than when you set out.

You still need to document who are the stakeholders on a small project as well. By defining who

these are, you can ensure that you cover all of their needs when you define the objectives and

deliverables.

DEFINING DELIVERABLES

Somebody is going to have to carry out the actual work to produce whatever is delivered from

your project. Even if the deliverables might be small and don't take much time to produce, they

should still be written down. By documenting these things and then having them reviewed by

others allows errors to be found. Your aim should be to document a detailed enough set of

descriptions of the products to be delivered.

These descriptions will then be used by the people who will produce the deliverables. Even if

these descriptions take no more than a page of text, it is important to write them in a clear and

unambiguous way. If you don't write down a description, it means that the person making the

deliverable can interpret what is required in unexpected ways which will only result in work

being done later to correct the mistakes. So, always define and document the deliverables.

PROJECT PLANNING

If you were to walk up Mount Everest, you would never do it without a considerable amount of

planning. Even if you walk up the hill at the back of your house, there is probably some planning

involved - what time do you go? What should you take with you? It is the same on even the

smallest project where you will still need to work out which activities are required to produce a

deliverable, estimate how long the activities will take, work out how many staff and resources

are required and assign activities and responsibilities to staff.

All of these things need to be written down and communicated effectively to the project team

members. I've seen lots of people become unstuck because they think they need to use some kind

of project management planning software such as Microsoft Project. This is an unnecessary

overhead. I've noticed that people tend to waste too much time making their Microsoft Project

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Gantt charts look pretty, so that they lose sight of the reason why they are using the tool.

Instead, for small projects I find that creating a bar chart in Microsoft Excel is the best. It is

simple and more than adequate for small projects. Just make each column a sequential date, write

your tasks in the first column, and fill in the cells to represent the time the activity takes.

In addition to the bar chart, you will need to document the milestones on the project. Milestones

are the dates by which you need to deliver certain things, or may be the date on which a major

activity ends. The responsibilities of each project member must also be documented in the

project plan.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROJECT PLAN

IDENTIFY ALL THE PLAYERS OR STAKEHOLDERS

Stakeholders are people who have an interest in the outcome of the project, and anyone with

whom you will have to interact to get the job done. They may include:

The sponsor 

Other executives 

The customer 

The end users 

Your team members 

THE SPONSOR

is the one who decided to put you in charge -- in a sense, sponsoring you as Project Manager. He

or she is the one that had confidence in you and your abilities and is probably the one who is

paying your salary. This person will share the credit or the blame for the project depending on

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how it turns out -- and is also the one who could reverse the decision and put someone else in the

project manager role instead of you.

THE CUSTOMER

Customer is the one who can pull the plug on the project. This is the person or group that is

paying for the services and project deliverables. The customer may be paying your salary,

possibly your sponsor’s salary, and perhaps the salaries of one or more team members. This is

the one who receives  your services -- the person or group that you must keep satisfied. The

customer will be the ultimate judge of success or failure. If the customer requests a change, you'll

have to accommodate it. If the customer is dissatisfied, it will be up to you to fix the problem.

The customer is the one you have to keep happy

OTHER EXECUTIVES 

Executives may be in charge of the end users that will be the beneficiaries of your efforts. They

may be in charge of your team members, or they may own or control other resources you will

need to get the work finished. Your project and its successful completion may depend on your

relationship with them.

THE END USERS

People who will be affected by the project. This group is made up of those whose lives will be

changed by the project or its implementation. They could include the sponsor and the customer,

but may include others who will feel an impact. This group may provide resources during the

project or after its completion. They may provide input to the planning process. This is the group

whose job or procedures may be changed by the project, and if training is needed, they will

probably be the ones who are trained.

TEAM MEMBERS 

Team members make up the group that will be doing the work. These are the people that you

will be managing. They'll be involved in the kick-off meeting, in the planning meetings, and in

the status review meetings. They'll receive your assignments and respond to your requests. They

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are the ones you'll monitor, and whose performance you'll be judging. You will want to keep

them motivated and on track.

All of these people can have an impact on your reputation and credibility. If the project is

successful and they feel good about having you in the project Manager role, your reputation will

be secure. Be sure you make contact early and often. Make sure they know who you are and that

you are in charge of the project. Remember, communication is your most important tool. Keep

these people as informed as possible and give each one plenty of opportunity for input.  When

communicating, remember that you should be listening for at least the same amount of time as

you spend talking, if not more. Establish yourself and your communication channels early, it will

go a long way toward making your project successful.

COMMUNICATION

Even in the smallest project team comprised of just a project manager and one other person, the

project manager will still need to assign tasks and responsibilities to the other person. It can't be

assumed that they will know what they should do without it being effectively communicated

from the project manager. If the project manager doesn't assign them specific activities, then the

chances are they will go ahead and work on things which are not needed by the project. So,

either the project will end up delivering the wrong things, or the project will get delayed since

time will need to be spent later on doing the activities which should have been done earlier.

You can communicate the plans via email, or give a print out of the plan to your project team

member(s), or better still, call a meeting and run through the plan with the project team

members. Remember, if the plan changes, you will also need to communicate the changes to

your team as well.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT:

1) COMMUNICATION GRID:

Ninety percent of your job as a project manager is communication. Go down your list of project

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customers and stakeholders to determine who you need to communicate with about what.

Consult with them on how often they would like to be contacted ("when") and how they want to

be contacted (email, phone call, text, etc.). For your own purposes note why you need to

communicate with then on a regular basis and any notes that will help you communicate better

with that person or group.

2) STATUS REPORTS:

As a general rule- your project team and project sponsor receives the most detailed report while

project customers should receive more of a progress report on the project product or results and

stakeholders should receive a high-level summary.

3) MEETING CALENDAR:

Use this to plan regular face-to-face or synchronous meetings. The project sponsor always has a

standing meeting as well as your core project team members.

TRACKING AND REPORTING PROGRES

If we still consider our two person project team - the project manager and one other person - the

project manager will need to know the progress of the activities which the other person is

working on. This can be done in a variety of ways: a short daily email detailing the work

completed, the work still left to do, and a list of any issues/problems. In most cases this will be

sufficient.

Alternatively a short 15 minute face to face catch up can accomplish the same thing. Or a

combination of the two things might be best. In any event, the project manager still needs to be

fully aware of the progress that is being made so that progress can be tracked effectively.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Even on our two person project, changes are likely to occur. Requests for change usually come

from stakeholders and it is your responsibility as project manager to assess the impact of

accepting these into the project. To do this, you need a good estimate of the impact the change

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will have in terms of the extra effort and cost involved. This will often impact the schedule as

well, so by having a clear understanding of how the schedule and budget will be affected you can

make the decision as to whether or not you will accept the change into your project.

On a small project there shouldn't be any need for any fancy change control board to decide if the

change is accepted. A quick discussion with the key stakeholder(s) should be sufficient for you

to come to a decision providing you have worked out the impact on cost and schedule.

One thing you should never do is simply accept the change. Even if you think the change is

small, you should never accept any change(s) without fully understanding what its impact will be

on cost and schedule. That is a recipe for what we call 'scope creep' where the project grows

bigger and bigger as more and more changes are added into the project. Before you know it, your

small project has become a much larger one and you will inevitably fail to deliver your project to

your original budget and schedule.

RISK MANAGEMENT

There will be risks even on a small project. Make sure you have thought through all the potential

risks at the beginning of the project, monitor the top ten risks each week (or top five if the

number of risks is small) and keep looking out for new risks. Failing to manage risk properly is

one the main causes for projects to fail.

The overhead in managing risks is very low. On a recent project, I drew up a list of what I

considered to be all the risks on the project. It came to about 10 risks in all. Of these, five were

serious risks. I worked out a plan to avoid or minimise each risk. In all, it took me little over a

couple of hours to do this. Then, each week on the project, I would spend say half an hour

reviewing all the risks and thinking of any new ones. At the end of the project, whilst some risks

actually had materialised, because I'd identified a plan at the start of the project to minimise the

impact of these risks, the impact of these risks on the project ended up being minimal.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT:

1) RISK REGISTER:

A risk is an event that either harms or benefits your project. Most forget that not all risk events

are bad but it is the bad events that can hurt or kill your project. Spend the time brainstorming

with your team to identify the bad events and give each event an ID and enough of description to

help you plan your response to it. Then, go through your list and decide on the most likely

probability of the event occurring in increments of 20s. This doesn't have to be exact but err on

the worst-case scenario side. Also determine what the impact would be to the project if the event

does happen. Assign "1" to events that would have a negligible impact on the project all the way

to "5" for events that would make the project fail. These are the risks that you want to

continually monitor. Continue to add to the risk register as the project progresses.

) RISK RESPONSES:

Of course your risk response plan can be more detailed and in a separate document but it is good

practice to have a ready reference so that you and your team can act quickly. It is also good

practice to examine your detailed risk response plans on a regular basis.

So, with little up front and ongoing effort, you get a big pay back if you manage the risks

throughout the project.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SCOPE STATEMENT:

1) CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS:

The best way to handle this aspect is to have a meeting with all of your project customers and

your project sponsor. The fewer customers the better for the project in reaching a consensus on

the project product or results requirements. It may be helpful to list the requirements as: "Must

Haves" and "Nice to Haves." Keep the list as short as possible by thinking of the first iteration of

the project as a proof-of-concept and keeping other requirements back for future versions of this

project.

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2) DEADLINE:

The actual date that the project product or results must be delivered or the project will be

cancelled. You should also negotiate for milestone dates so that the customer and/or sponsor can

decide if the project's progress warrants it going further.

3) BUDGET CAP:

What is the maximum amount that you can spend on the project? You will not know the true

project budget until you actually start the project plan and begin the work so this figure will be a

ballpark estimate. This is also a good point to discuss having contingency planning for

unexpected expenses.

4) WHAT IS NOT IN THIS PROJECT'S SCOPE?

Scope creep is the biggest threat to the small project because the project already has severely-

limited time, resources, and budget.

DETERMINE REQUIRED PROJECT RESULTS:

“What you need to accomplish or deliver in order to make good on the project's goals and

objectives will make up the required project results.

You are ready to list the requirements of your project when you have completed the project

definition with fully-described goal, objectives, boundaries and constraints -- and after you have

obtained complete buy-in from sponsor, customers, and other stakeholders.

Translate the project scope definition into requirements. Start with the list of objectives and, for

each one, create a list of project results that satisfy that objective.  This is simply a list, as

detailed as possible, that describe conditions or deliverables that are needed to meet the

objectives. The items  should represent actions of one kind or another.  A required project result

should be stated as a condition that has already been met -- for example, all employees

trained, documentation delivered, fully-assembled widget or framing completed. 

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ORGANIZE THE REQUIREMENTS INTO LOGICAL GROUPS OR PHASES

These groups will be used in defining the workload.  Each group or phase will become a work

package that will be further broken down into tasks for fulfilling the requirements or producing

the deliverables for that work package. For example, in a new home project you might have the

following requirements:

Site prepared

Foundation completed

Framing completed

Roofing completed

Windows and doors installed

Electrical roughed in

Plumbing roughed in

Heating & cooling ductwork installed

The site preparation work package could be broken down further into:

1) Trees and boulders cleared,

2) basement excavation completed,

3) final grading completed.

The plumbing work package might include

1) kitchen rough-in complete,

2) first floor half-bath complete,

3)exterior taps installed etc.

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These groups are not the same thing and not as detailed as tasks.  A task grouping could be

"doors and windows installed".  The tasks associated with the grouping will include individual

tasks for each door or window and will be defined in the next step.

GET STAKEHOLDER AGREEMENT ON THE REQUIRED PROJECT RESULTS

This is a critical planning step that should be done carefully and deliberately. Failure to get

consensus could mean there are errors in the plan and errors that occur here will be compounded

as the project moves forward and will be difficult to correct once things have been underway for

awhile.

When you've finished listing requirements for the project you're ready to create the work

breakdown structure and work packages , and start building your task list.

DEFINE THE PROJECT WORK PLAN

“The tasks you have to complete to fulfill the requirements and deliverables of the project

constitute the project work plan” 

Keep in mind, that in this and all project planning activities, you should not be working alone.

You should involve stake holders and team members as early and as often as possible.

REQUIREMENT LIST TO DEFINE PROJECT WORK PLAN

The work plan definition is made up of one or more work packages, each of which is in support

of a project requirement or deliverable. Each package identifies tasks that make up the actions

needed to fulfill those requirements. The collection of work packages is also known as a work

breakdown structure(WBS). A formal WBS is a separate document used to focus planning

efforts on deliverables and requirements  and the work packages needed to achieve them. A work

package is simply a breakdown of work into categories and task groupings that can be more

easily assigned and managed, and that can be more easily estimated in terms of time, effort, and

cost.

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YOU DECIDE HOW THE WORK IS

BROKEN DOWN. 

You can use a time-phased approach. You can break it down by skills or by contractor specialty.

You can break it down by component or by location or by combinations of the above. The goal is

simply to make the workload easier to manage by grouping things that are related. No matter

how you break it down, you'll use the same format: Categories, sub-categories, and task groups.

You can use an outline layout, a tree diagram or an organization chart diagram. You may want

to use numbering on each category for easy identification of workpackages.

USE THE PROJECT WORK PLAN TO BUILD THE TASK LIST

From the work plan you'll produce a task list. The task list should refer back to the Work

Package by number and should include the categories under which the tasks are listed. It will be

an expansion of the task groupings that were part of the work packages. For example, the task

grouping "doors and windows installed" could break down into the following tasks:

Install garage door 

Install front and rear entrance doors 

Install large decorative glass over door 

Install standard windows 

Install interior doors 

Install skylights 

The task list should be made up of tasks and activities that can be completed by one person.

ASSIGN A PRELIMINARY DURATION TO THE TASKS

If you have access to information about similar projects that have been done before you can use

actual durations from previous tasks. If you have knowledgeable help in planning the project you

can get practical estimates for how long the tasks will take.

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INDICATE IMPORTANT TASK RELATIONSHIPS AND SEQUENCING ISSUES

After you have the list of tasks, you can identify relationships and dependencies between them.

Look for tasks that can't occur at the same time or that can't start until another task is started or

completed. This information will be an input to the project schedule.

There are two common tools used to layout the task schedule. Task relationships and

dependencies are often portrayed with a network diagram. Some tasks may not be able to begin

until one or more other tasks are started or finished. This chart will help later when determining

task sequences.

Task Dependency Chart

In the chart tasks 2 and 3 both depend on task 1, so task 1 is predecessor of 2 and 3.   Task 9 is a

predecessor of tasks 10, 11 and 12. A task is said to be on the critical path if delaying or

lengthening it will cause the end date of the project to slip.

A numbered task table can be used to show relationships by including a column with the

numbers of predecessors.  The table below comes from Microsoft Project, but you can just as

easily use a spreadsheet program like Excel or 1-2-3.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE WITH CAUTION

If you start using a project management tool too early you could wind up spending a lot of time

working in the software just trying to finish your planning. Programs like Microsoft Project are

comprehensive and are capable of doing a lot more than what you need for managing small

projects. With all that power they become more difficult to use and oddly, the more training

wheel features that are added, the more difficult and unpredictable they become. 

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Most new project managers are better off if they first build the project work plan on paper or in a

spreadsheet and then transcribe it to the Project Management software. The software can then be

used to track and report progress and variances.

DEVELOP THE PROJECT RISK PLAN

“By developing a project risk plan, you prepare for the possibility that errors, omissions or

miscalculations will occur and will have an adverse impact on costs or schedules”

Clearly, if projects always went according to plan, there would be no need for project

management. We would simply plan and initiate them. But things don't always go according to

plan. In fact, more often than not, things are overlooked, ignored, misunderstood, neglected,

unavailable, problematic or unresponsive. Hence the need for project management and, more

specifically, the project risk plan and the process of managing risk.

Even when managing small projects, things can go catastrophically wrong; so it is always a good

idea to spend some time at least thinking about the possibilities, and putting some contingency

plans into place. Risk is a problem, and the best way to address any problem is to ask the right

questions.

The first question a project manager should ask about risk is, "What could possibly go wrong?"

As it turns out, there is a fairly standard set of issues that contribute to project risk. You can

easily get a leg up on the whole risk management process by successfully addressing the

following questions:

Do we fully understand the goals and objectives for this project? 

How detailed and accurate are our cost and effort estimates for tasks? 

On which tasks are our estimates most likely to be wrong? 

Do we have enough committed resources to do the job? 

What kind of resource availability problems could we have? 

Do we understand the requirements and deliverables of the project? 

Do our resources have the skills to do the job? 

What changes might the customer or sponsor want that would effect the project scope? 

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How likely will non-team members be able to live up to their commitments and

deadlines? 

What kind of technical problems could we have? 

What could cause the project deadlines to change? 

With any risk you need to consider two variables -- the probability that the risk will

occur, and the impact the risk will have on the project. Both of these are usually

represented as low, medium, or high and are often presented in matrix form.

If you list and number all the risks and fit them into the matrix, you'll be in a position to make

intelligent decisions about how to handle them.

Obviously, you can avoid all the risks by cancelling the project. That is not usually an allowable

choice, so the next best thing is to determine the action to take for each risk element based on

where it falles in the risk assessment matrix.  In some cases either cost or schedule risks can out

weigh the other, in which case a separate matrix is often used -- one each for cost and schedule --

and decisions are made based on which is most important.

Low to medium impact and probability risks are often just accepted, tracked and handled ad hoc.

High probability and high impact risks are usually included and budgeted in a project risk plan.

Of course you'll need to deal with these risks in a manner consistent with how your organization

or your customer's organization deals with risk.

In some cases, you can transfer the risk to someone else by using insurance or special language

in contracts. Of course, then you're dependent on someone else fulfilling their part of the bargain

-- which can be another risk in itself.

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS

“Take corrective action whenever the project goes off track. Prompt and decisive action is the

best way to bring the project back on track in terms of cost, schedule and delivery quality”

Take corrective action promptly to head off adverse impact. If your status reports indicate

schedule slippage, cost overrun, quality problems or scope creep, you'll want to take prompt

action to curb the problems and get things back on track. There are a number of things you can

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do, when managing small projects, to correct various types of issues. Naturally, the action you

take will depend on the type of issue you want to correct.

COMPENSATE FOR TASKS THAT ARE TAKING TOO LONG

You can speed up a task by adding a resource, by working additional overtime hours, or by

replacing a resource with one that performs faster. There is often a cost tradeoff when you add a

resource. Additional resources or overtime will cost more, and a more skilled or higher-powered

resource may come at an increased rate. If the task is not on the critical path or if it has no

dependencies, it may not be necessary to take corrective action, especially if it looks like the task

will eventually complete satisfactorily. But if the task has dependencies or will cause the project

to slip, you will need to take action quickly.

COMPENSATE FOR TASKS COSTING TOO MUCH

If a purchased or fixed fee item has been impacted by a price increase, often the best thing to do

is to adjust the overall cost plan for the project, rather than trying to compensate. Otherwise, you

can look for cost tradeoffs elsewhere, like using cheaper purchased items, lower cost resources

and so on. Sometimes there are conflicts between trying to compensate for cost and schedule

impacts. That's where your decision-making skills come in. You'll have to make a tradeoff and

rely on your knowledge of the management climate and the goals and requirements of the

project.

CHECK RESOURCES AND PRECURSORS

If a task should have started but has not, it is generally an indication of a problem in resource

availability or tasks upon which this one is dependent. You may need to address the problems in

precursor tasks or substitute an unavailable resource with one that is available. It may be too late

too deal with precursor tasks, in which case the correct approach may be to simply recalculate

the schedule based on the new information.

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CHECK ON SKILLS AND OBSTACLES

When all the hours allocated to a task are gone, but the task is not yet finished, it indicates a

problem. But a better time to catch the problem might be when 25% of the hours are used, but

the task is not 25% completed. That's when you still have an opportunity to take corrective

action. Prompt reporting can help, but you'll need to pay close attention to tasks that are shorter

than your reporting cycle.  If you have a daily or weekly reporting cycle, it's possible for a two-

day task to double and go unreported until it's too late.

CORRECT ISSUES WHERE UNSCHEDULED TASKS ARE BEING WORKED. 

You can avoid this, for the most part, by advising your team to notify you when out-of-

scope requests are received. This type of activity always occurs at the request of someone, most

often a stakeholder. You can head off these issues by having a change request and approval

process, and advising the requester and approvers of the impact on the project's cost and

schedule.  If the change is approved, you simply recalculate the project to accommodate it and

keep track of it.

CORRECT INADEQUATE TASKS AND DELIVERABLES

 The most difficult problem to deal with is  the one where the task is completed and materials are

ready for delivery, but they just don't meet requirements.  This shouldn't happen in a well-

documented project, but it does -- often because resources just don't read the project

documentation. The only solution is rework. Rework is costly and can be prevented by

incorporating inspection points during the development of a deliverable. Incorporating a quality

control process into the project itself should prevent this type of problem especially if you

inspect the deliverable as it is being produced instead of waiting until it is being delivered.

Closely monitoring the status of tasks and the quality of deliverables can often eliminate the need

for taking corrective action.

REPORT PROJECT STATUS

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“The best ways to report project status on the projects include comparing actual cost and

schedule against the planned cost and schedule, indicating corrective actions taken and

forecasting adjustments if needed”

In the same way that you expect your team members to be accurate and timely in reporting task

status to you, you must report project status in a timely way to your sponsor, customers, and

stake holders.  In doing so, you have an opportunity to take credit for the things you and your

team have done well and get direction on situations where help is needed.

COMMUNICATE ACCURATELY AND OFTEN

Your sponsor, customer and stakeholder will take bad news more easily if it's presented to them

in time to provide direction or make suggestions to correct them. If you report project status in

time to take action, you make your stakeholders partners in decision-making for the project, even

if the decision is to pull the plug. The worse thing you could do would be to wait until most of

the budget has been spent before letting them know that the project is hopelessly behind schedule

and consuming funds twice as fast as expected. Give them the opportunity to help and offer

suggestions.

FOCUS ON SCHEDULE, COST, ACHIEVEMENT, AND CHANGES

When you report project status to the decision-makers you'll want to emphasize progress against

the schedule for the entire project, and for  tasks with exceptional variances.  You'll want to

report on expenditures for the whole project, and for tasks with exceptional cost variances. Run

down the list of deliverables, indicating those that were delivered on time, delivered late, or

behind schedule. Finally, identify any changes that have been made to the project like additional

tasks and deliverables, or resources pulled for use elsewhere. Indicate where the changes affected

the project. The best way to accomplish the reporting is to use baseline and actual comparisons.

HIGHLIGHT BUDGET REEVISION

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Show changes that have been made to the project, by comparing your revised budget or baseline

to the original baseline you saved when the scope was approved. Compare Costs and tasks

against the schedule timeline and identify any tasks that were changed due to requirements or

resource changes.  This comparison should only be showing changes that have been approved.

REPORT PROJECT STATUS

By comparing actual progress to the most recent budget revision you show how things stand that

have occurred since the revisions were approved and since the last reporting session. Here's

where you will want to talk about tasks that are going according to plan, as well as those that are

falling behind or concuming budget too quickly.

USE VARIANCES TO FORECAST FUTURE PERFORMANCE

You'll want to give them an idea of the project outcomes based on events and progress so far,

and on projections of current trends in cost and schedule variances. Where possible,

indicate schedule trends like tasks appear to be averaging 20% longer than anticipated.

Obviously, only one delayed task out of 50 wouldn't indicate a trend. You can show trends in

costs either on a task by task basis or as an overall project spending rate, also known as the burn

rate. For example, we're spending about $150 more per week than planned.

PRESENT AN ACTION PLAN TO CORRECT OR IMPROVE PROGRESS

You should never make the sponsor, customer and stakeholders come up with a plan. They will

resent having to do it and you will rarely be satisfied with what they suggest. Instead, develop

your own plan and present it to them. Then give them the opportunity to accept it, change it, or

suggest alternatives.

SOMETIMES NEGOTIATION IS YOUR ONLY OPTION

When you have problems that are uncorrectable, often your only choice is to adjust the project's

cost, schedule, or requirements to compensate or accommodate the changes. When you need to

do that, you'll need the approval of the sponsor, the customer, and perhaps the stakeholders. To

get that approval you may need to negotiate the changes. Be prepared to communicate progress

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and talk about solutions. In some cases it may be advisable to have two or three possible

solutions or scenarios up your sleeve.

Remember to report project status often and whenever significant events occur. It's easier to

make course corrections if you do it right away. Wait too long, and you could be too far off

course to recover.

PERFORM A FORMAL PROJECT CLOSE

“Take formal steps to complete a project close process when the project is finished”

One of the most common failings is not recognizing that the project is finished. I remember a

couple of projects that were overdue and over budget simply because the customer and

stakeholders kept asking for revisions and changes long after all the requirements had been met.

We called it "last-minute scope slide". Having a formal project close process will help keep this

from happening. You'll want to have a clear definition of what finished means for your project

and make sure that you call a halt to the proceedings when you reach it. You can even close a

project with work still on the table. You transfer the issues to a punch list or checklist and end

the project. Work on the punch list becomes post-project support. During this time, you stick to

the punch list. Anything new that is requested goes onto a wish list and waits on the next project.

CONDUCT THE OFFICIAL TURNOVER

No matter what you call it -- Final Hand-off, Production Turnover, and Customer Acceptance --

you need to designate a milestone in your project close process where you officially turn the

project over to its owner. A brief meeting and a customer sign off sheet comprise the the only bit

of ceremony you need. Even if there are a few items remaining to be taken care of, put these on a

checklist and conduct the turnover. Then take care of the items promptly.

GATHER AND FILE THE PROJECT DOCUMENTATION

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You'll need to get the original scope, any change requests, materials used in status reporting,

communications from and to anyone on the team and in the list of sponsors, customers and

stakeholders.  Label and file the documentation. If you've maintained a project journal, include

that as well.

ISSUE AN ANNOUNCEMENT

You should issue an announcement that the project is officially concluded and that no more

expenses can be charged against it. If the project went well, you should include a brief

description of the project and what it accomplished. You should also include the list of sponsors,

customers and stakeholders as well as the team members.  If any team member in particular

performed in an exemplary fashion, you may want to single the person out as a team VIP.

HOLD A FINAL MEETING WITH THE TEAM

Regardless of the outcome of the project, examine and discuss the events. Brainstorm ideas on

improvement, problem avoidance, improved risk management and so on. The goal is to extract

as much process improvement material as possible.  Thank the team. Single out exemplary

members.

REWARD THE TEAM MEMBERS

If the project had a positive outcome, you should plan some type of reward for the team

members. Typical rewards include:

An outing of some kind

A party 

A trophy or other artifact 

A certificate or customer sign off sheet encase in Plexiglas 

Even if it isn't part of the formal project close process, rewarding the team is always seen as good

form and will make them more likely to want to work with you again.

ORGANIZATIONAL SETUP

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Departments (36)

Staff Office (1)

Divisions (10) Zonal Offices

MCOs (1243)

Branches (348)

Head Office Field

Internal

Audit

Zones (7)

President

Chief internal

Auditor

Board of Directors

Audit

committee

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CREDIT OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT (PROJECT MANAGEMENT

UNIT)

AIM

To prepare banks annual credit plan and support business development of bank through establishing,

maintaining and improving system and process for delivery of all goods and services through network

of branches.

OBJECTIVES

Introduction of new and continuous review, monitoring of credit operation through network of

branches

Draw annual credit plan ensuring emphasize on small farmers expanding outreach through

innovative packages of customer, friendly products and priority items

Follow-up monitoring / implementation of credit plan

Facilitate the approval of loan cases referred to Head office credit committee

CREDIT OPERATIONS UNIT

FUNCTIONS

1. Direct and coordinate implementation of system related studies / project

2. Support user in application of system, attending to and resolving system problems in

conjunction with system specialists.

3. Ensure that procedure system stationery. Documentation ect. Related to COD are in place and

incompliance with external and internal rules for all present and new products and services of

bank.

4. preparation of operating procedure manual

5. identify all operational and transactional risks to develop key risk indicators for function

6. develop and adopt early warning system to proactively mitigate these risks

7. ensure implementing the system in all the branches/ field office related to credit operations

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8. Prepare summary of loan cases referred to Head office credit committee for consideration of

committee and issuance of sanction letters on approval of loan proposal.

9. Deal with loans already sanctioned by Head office under general credit.

10. Manage all administrative meters of the departmental, including employees training and

development, ACRs, departmental budget and sanctioning of leaves and tour programs etc.

CREDIT PLANNING AND MONITORING UNIT

1. Formulation and monitoring of annual / future leading plans with emphasize on coverage of

small farmers and priority items and poverty alleviation.

2. Analysis and monitoring of disbursements of Zones and persuasion for achievement of

disbursement targets.

3. Completion of periodical data on disbursement covering various angles for use of Division

Head of operation Division and department under Division

4. Preparation of agenda on operational performance of the bank for Board of Directors.

5. Reply to National Assembly/ Senate questions and other queries from GOP regarding

disbursement and credit programs of the Bank.

6. Provide of feedback to information system division being major user of computerized data.

7. Control parameters, system access, safeguard data integrity and direct contingency actions in

emergency.

8. Perform any other assignment given by higher management from time to time.

PROJECTS MANAGEMENT

Like other companies, managing the plans and projects in the ZTBL is different to very extent,

Although it includes all partial parts of managing the projects, but it has “On-going” projects,

some of them are seasonal, some are regional, some are on criteria based. Seasonal based are

crops cultivating and new crops season. Regional based are area wise and may differ from each

area. And Criteria based are regarding the targeting the customer. For example, there is a scheme

“Asaan Qarza” which is specifically for youth.

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SMALL PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

If we consider the “5 process group” for managing the small projects in the ZTBL, then we can

include all the step by step with details.

This is not a construction type company, it is a financial institute, who lend money. And their

resources are the cash, and they get this resources from State Bank, which is approved in the

Budget of Pakistan. This is the allocation of resources.

PROJECT INITIATION:

ZTBL initiates its projects with the instructions of President, Prime Minister, Chief Minister or

by State Bank of Pakistan. This is the state institute, so they follow the instructions. And they

select the best option project after a analyst panel study of that project.

PROJECT PLANNING:

There is COD division for the planning and policy. That stands for Credit Operation Department,

there are 2 departments in this Division. One is regarding the operations and the other is policy

and planning. This Division make planning of all projects including the new and existing

projects.

PROJECT EXECUTION:

After the planning and make policies for new project, the COD department plan for disbursement

of the money to each zone in Pakistan. ZTBL have 31 Zones and 351 branches, the head of each

Zone have specific branches under himself. The head then further allocate the disbursement

amount to the branch manager, and This branch manager then have further make it for MCO.

MCO stands for Mobile Credit Officer, this is the project manager for small projects. Each

MCO is in charge for 25-30 villages, all disbursement to those villages and recovery are the main

duties of that MCO.

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PROJECT MONITORING & CONTROL:

MCO is not authorize only for disbursement of cash to borrower, but he is also responsible for

recovery. MCO continuously monitor the borrower’s financial condition. And there are different

agencies include internal and external audit who can monitor this process thoroughly or partly

but this is the strict process from the view of Audit side. Form the COD division, AVP’s and

even SVP can choose a sample field for inspection of the process of small projects.

If MCO practice wrong, make some corruption, there are different departments based on zonal

level and on Head Quarter Level. For example, Inspection and Complain Department, Audit

Teams, Monitoring teams of zones, commercial audit teams etc. Insurance of dispersion process

is also monitor. The edge officer is MCO who is responsible for this process as well, but MCO is

practicing wrong, then the branch manager is authorized for inspection the report.

The Audit Team never relies the reports of MCO and Mangers, they inspect themselves. Then

audit team can recommends for termination of responsible persons.

PROJECT CLOSURE:

Project closure is different in the small projects management in ZTBL. There are two ways for

closure. One is project closure, which may differ from project to project and from zone to zone.

This is also on the bases of season. For example, in the cultivation of wheat, it will close after

end of the April, but will again in December, so these are not closed permanently.

There are very few projects which were closed permanently, most of closed projects start again

after the season/limited duration. The other closure is from the farmer’s side. This depends on

season as well. When the farmer (borrower) have paid all the lending amount, it will be also

called closure.

So for the Small Project Management in the ZTBL, this is the basic process for lending the

money to borrowers. There are different limits of lending amount for each project. These projects

are dairy, poultry, crops, tractor, tube well, Solar energy, Bio gas energy etc. All these have

different time durations. Basic mark-up rate is 14.5%. plus 1% relaxation for timely paying.

All about the department’s performance, ZTBL is performing very well. There arrangements and

management is very good, and staff is professional and most of them are experienced.

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ZTBL works for the farmers, and provides full relaxations for the disaster’s area. There mark-up

rates are also very competitive and there are lot of schemes for farmers starting from short time

to long time.

DIFFERENT SMALL PROJECTS:

Fruit grader Potato grader

Garden waste chipper Potato planter

M E S C E R O Pruning equipment

Modern agri machinery implements S A L U S T I A N A

FLAIL MOWER Self Propelled rotary hoe

Agro based industries Solar devices

Irrigation machinery Stubble shaver

Crops orchard Tunnels

Cut flower crops Water reel sprinkler

High tech cheaper Technologies Yanmar combine harvester

Offset rotavator Fertilizer spreader

Groundnut thresher Inter row rotary cultivator

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MEGA PROJECT

Megaproject activity is increasing across the globe. This means highly skilled project managers

will be needed to manage these newer more demanding assignments. Megaprojects are large

scale, complex projects valued at US$1 billion or more, dwarfing the size and scale of typical

industrial projects.

These complex projects are commonly found in petroleum, minerals, chemicals, and power

industries, and are reported to be highly problematic with an alarmingly high failure rate.

According to the studies most project teams simply lack the experience to manage projects of

this size. Some specific contributing factors to megaproject failure include:

Clear objectives for the team are not set

All key owner functions are not involved in development of the megaproject

Instability in leadership of the megaproject

Incomplete project definition work (front-end loading) prior to sanction

THEORETICAL ASPECTS

THE TRADITIONAL VIEW OF PROJECT CONTROLS

The Scientific Management view of the world suggests that understanding a complicated entity

can be achieved by taking it to bits and studying the parts. Once understanding has been

achieved, and because for every action, there is a predictable and equal reaction, a sufficiently

developed schedule model should be capable of accurately predicting the future. When the

predictions fail to materialize, more investigation is needed; from a scheduling perspective, this

translates to the assumption that accuracy is increased by adding detail.

This foundation then allows the assumption that a well developed schedule can, with proper

supervision, control workers’ actions. The ultimate expression of these ideas is embedded in the

legal view of the contract schedule. A contract schedule is assumed by law to represent the way

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the contract will be executed by the contractor. Some schedule clauses in contracts actually

prohibit the modification of the schedule or make the process of changing the schedule difficult.

Some of the problems with this line of reasoning are bullet pointed below:

To quote the late Douglas Adams “I can imagine Newton sitting down and working out

his laws of motion and figuring out the way the Universe works and with him, a cat

wandering around. The reason we had no idea how cats worked was because, since

Newton, we had proceeded by the very simple principle that essentially, to see how things

work, we took them apart. If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first

thing you have in your hands is a non-working cat.” (Adams, 1998). The way complex

entities work cannot be understood by breaking them down into parts. Even at the

simplest level, studying a fish cannot explain how a shoal of fish work; at a complex

level understanding a project task in isolation will not explain the dynamics of a major

project and its team of resources.

If the future was predictable, there would be no need to lose money during stock market

crashes and bookmakers would be extinct. The inherent uncertainty about predicting the

future has been understood for at least 300 years! As Leibniz wrote in a letter to Bernoulli

in 1703 “Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for

the most part” (Bernstein, 1996). In summary, the past is a useful guide to what may

happen in the future but there are no guarantees.

The paradox of knowledge workers! Scientific management produced huge productivity

gains through the first part of the 20th century. Its focus was on the worker as a part of

the productive machinery of business (exemplified by Henry Ford’s production line) and

discovering the ‘right way’ of accomplishing each task to maximise efficiency. These

ideas worked well for repetitive manual tasks that typified manufacturing through to the

1960s. Problems with the scientific view of management quickly surfaced as the nature of

work changed from making tangible things to creating knowledge (eg, writing software).

Despite conventional wisdom and current naming conventions, none of the so-called project

control tools actually control anything. Changing numbers in a cost plan will not influence the

movement of money into or out of an organization’s bank account – people writing cheque or

processing funds transfers do that. Similarly changing the duration of a scheduled activity has

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absolutely no effect on the time the work actually takes to perform. The most these project

control tools can achieve is to influence the thinking of workers in a way that may change their

future actions. Nothing can change what’s already happened! Additionally, from a controls

perspective, there is a major difference between time and money. If you do not spend money

today, it remains in the organisation’s bank account to be spent tomorrow. If you do not use time

efficiently today, it is gone forever – time moves from the present to the past at a rate of 60

seconds per minute, every minute of the day and nothing can control this! Consequently, the

value of project schedule is not and never has been as a control tool.

SOME EMERGING VIEWS OF PROJECTS

CHAOS THEORY AND COMPLEXITY

Complexity theory has become a broad platform for the investigation of complex

interdisciplinary situations. It developed from and includes the earlier field of study known as

chaos theory and can be defined as the study of how order and patterns arise from apparently

chaotic systems, and conversely, how complex behaviour and structures emerge from simple

underlying rules.

Another phenomenon is called the ‘Tipping Point’ (Gladwell, 2000) where one small additional

stimulus can cause a catastrophic and non-reversible change in the whole system.

PROJECTS AS TEMPORARY KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATIONS (TKOS) & SOCIAL

NETWORKS6

Viewing a project as a temporary knowledge organisation (TKO) moves the focus of project

management from the observation of the output of the project (its deliverable) to managing the

processes needed to transform inputs received by the project team into the project deliverable(s).

This is achieved by the gathering, melding, processing, creating and using of knowledge.

Operational teams are managed on the assumption they are relatively permanent

ATTRIBUTES OF A ‘GOOD’ SCHEDULE – THE DOCUMENT

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Some of the key elements needed to create and maintain a ‘good schedule’ is:

UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT SCHEDULE

In general terms, the purpose of the project schedule is to provide a useful ‘road map’ that can be

used by the project manager and the project team to assist them in completing the project

successfully.

DESIGNING THE PROJECT SCHEDULE

Once the purpose of the particular schedule is understood, the scheduler can design an

appropriate framework taking into account such factors as the level of detail needed, the update

cycle, reporting and communication requirements (these influence coding structures).

DEVELOPING THE SCHEDULING FRAMEWORK

The critical element in developing a useful schedule is engaging the key members of the project

team in the process; the schedule must be ‘owned’ by the project manager and project team if it

is going to be useful.

DEVELOPING THE BASELINE SCHEDULE

Transitioning the schedule from the agreed team document to the official project baseline

involves two phases. The first is essentially ‘housekeeping’ where the scheduler checks and

validates the schedule is complete, it meets all of the project objectives, is correctly coded, etc.

The second phase is obtaining approvals and sign off on the schedule from all of the appropriate

stakeholders.

MAINTAINING THE SCHEDULE

The process that keeps a project schedule ‘useful’ is the regular status and updating of the

schedule and the management of schedule changes through the project’s change control process.

ATTRIBUTES OF AN EFFECTIVE SCHEDULER – THE PERSON

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The roles fulfilled by a scheduler change as the project progresses through its life cycle from a

concept, to a definite ‘job’, to a ‘work in progress’. The three phases are:

PRE-INITIATION (COMMITMENT / FEASIBILITY PLANNING)

During this phase information is scarce, the planner works with the project team to ‘paint a time

picture’ of the project, to develop a strategy for delivery and gain consensus.

INITIATION AND PLANNING (EXECUTION SCHEDULING)

The scheduler is now in a facilitating role assembling information from the project team (and

frequently sub-contractors) to develop the project schedule model and eventually the baseline

schedule. The scheduler’s role is to integrate and test the information for logic, common sense

and completeness by asking the right questions

EXECUTING AND MONITORING & CONTROLLING (PERFORMANCE CONTROL)

During the execution of the project the work the scheduler moves into a support role;

maintaining the schedule, testing ‘what-if’ scenarios, optimizing change outcomes and advises

the project team on performance. As the project team members become more familiar with the

project, the scheduler is happy to defer to the team member’s opinions and views,

acknowledging it is the project manager and project team who are responsible for delivering the

project ‘on schedule’. Schedulers also need core technical skills including being:

• Good with data;

• Concise and accurate in their work;

• Capable of learning how to use a scheduling software tool

ORGANIZATIONAL VIEWS

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Agencies must be able to plan, program, design, and deliver projects of immense size and

complexity effectively. Not only are the resulting projects necessarily large, complex, and costly,

but also they attract intense pressure to minimize, if not to avoid completely, their adverse

construction and post construction impacts on daily commerce, quality of life, and the

environment. The combined effect of these factors is what makes a megaproject a mega

challenge.

Megaprojects require the management of a complex and sometimes difficult-to-understand set of

public dynamics. Without public trust and confidence, the resources will not be made available

to address the immense challenges that face us today and will continue to face us in the future.

THE UNEXPECTED CHALLENGE

Discussing project cost overruns on a specific megaproject, former U.S. Department of

Transportation (USDOT) Deputy Secretary Mortimer L. Downey said, "I wish we could have

learned them [the lessons] a little cheaper . . . On any project there may be problems, but there

should never be surprises.

Finding out that the magnitude of the megaproject challenge has been underestimated after the

"boat has set sail" is the wrong time to make the discovery. Yet based on the cost estimate

overruns and the levels of negative press associated with several megaprojects, underestimating

the challenge appears often to be the case.

A DIFFERENT BREED

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) defines megaprojects as major infrastructure

projects that cost more than $1 billion, or projects of a significant cost that attract a high level of

public attention or political interest because of substantial direct and indirect impacts on the

community, environment, and State budgets. "Mega" also connotes the skill level and attention

required to manage the project successfully.

Many of the challenges that make megaprojects unique appear obvious, such as the requirement

to manage numerous, concurrent, and complex activities while maintaining tough schedules and

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tight budgets. Other challenges are not so apparent or at least do not initially present themselves

as challenging. Yet these other challenges are seemingly not knowable in the early planning

stages of the project.

SIZE

Megaprojects are huge undertakings. Not only do they require vast quantities of financial,

human, and material resources but also their impacts on the human and physical environments

can be enormous. Individually, each impact is of significant interest to a stakeholder group—an

environmental organization, a neighborhood group, the business community, or the motorists

who drive by every day—so collectively the impacts are sure to attract public attention and

involvement.

Some megaprojects are so large that they create their own economic environments. When

construction is at its peak, a megaproject can fuel a local economic boom. As the project reaches

completion and construction activity subsides, the local or regional economy may weaken.

Megaprojects also can tax the capacity of a region's construction industry, affecting the bidding

climate and cost of other projects.

Financially, the numbers involved in megaprojects are large to start with, so any subsequent

change in project cost often can have significant direct and collateral impacts. Even a small

percentage increase in the cost can have a substantial impact on a State's overall budget and look

alarming on the front page of a newspaper. A project's funding requirements also can affect a

State's bond rating and thus the State's cost of borrowing.

Finally, a megaproject's size creates a perceived, if not real, momentum that is unstoppable. Once

a large project is underway, decision makers have found themselves in situations where changing

course is not an option no matter how different reality may be from earlier expectations. Because

of the investment the project requires and the attention it generates, it is hard to walk away from

the project or delay its progress once it is underway. Any cost increases must be covered quickly,

most likely at the expense of other State priorities.

COMPLEXITY

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Complexity takes more than one form on megaprojects. Most highway agencies recognize that

these super-large projects are technically complex undertakings requiring cutting-edge

engineering and construction techniques. The management skills required to lead these large

undertakings often require an effective combination of the best and most talented of both the

public and private sectors. Assembling such a public-private sector management team poses

significant challenges in it and requires exceptional experience and foresight. Finally, these large

projects often span two or more governing or political jurisdictions, thus complicating the

decision making process.

COMPLEX PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING

Megaprojects require innovative approaches to fashioning the contracts that will be used to

engage the construction industry. The desire to have one prime contractor responsible for the

entire project most likely will not be achievable for any number of good reasons. The mere size

of such contracts would significantly limit those who could bid, thus producing a poor bidding

climate.

CONTROVERSY

An undertaking that requires such a significant investment of resources inherently creates

controversy among various stakeholders over how resources should be invested, how impacts on

the human and physical environment should be mitigated, and how success should be defined.

Because of their visibility, megaprojects often become targets for political debate. Naturally, anything that captures public attention is important to elected officials. Election outcomes, personal reputations, and successful public careers often can hang in the balance with the success or failure of a megaproject.

TIME

One often-overlooked aspect of megaprojects is the impact of a protracted lifespan. Although

some projects take a few years to finish, others go on for 15 or more years. It is important to

consider the changes that could occur during a project's lifespan. How often will change occur in

the economy, political landscape, laws and regulations, technology, and composition of the

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project management team? How could these changes affect the project? How will the public's

support and patience be maintained over the long term? The project management team must

account for all of the uncertainty associated with the element of time.

SCOPE CREEP

A major source of cost increases on megaprojects is additional scope (or an increase in project

size, breadth, or complexity), which can come about in several ways. Some stakeholders believe

a megaproject's size enables it to absorb additions without visible impact. Others see it as a cash

cow with sufficient resources to handle collateral interests. Still others try to leverage it as a

vehicle to get "pet" projects underway without having to deal with otherwise seemingly overly

bureaucratic project approval and funding requirements.

HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

Because megaprojects affect various communities differently, they present challenges for the

project team to work with stakeholders to develop solutions that address their specific needs. At

the same time, it is easy to underestimate the impact of environmental protection on project

success. Knowledge of environmental issues and the laws governing them can evolve, making

environmental mitigation a complicated process requiring significant planning and resources.

Public involvement in community and environmental issues is an important aspect. Try to avoid

impacts on the project's neighbors and the environment. "But in cases where that are not

possible, try to minimize and then mitigate impacts on the natural and human environments."

Managers, as part of their ongoing communications efforts, have held biannual meetings with

resource agencies, monthly meetings with the officials, and public meetings with various

stakeholder groups, sponsored forums for property owners, and made presentations to

professional groups. Other communication methods include a Web site, newsletters, and media

outreach.

RISK AND UNCERTAINTY

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Tied to other factors that make megaprojects challenging is preparation for the unexpected.

Although predicting everything that the project will encounter is impossible, expecting all to go

as originally planned is not realistic, given the complexity of these projects.

The solution is to develop a disciplined risk management process that assesses exposure and

builds analysis-based contingencies into areas of the project that demonstrate uncertainty.

Effectively managed and not overstated, a contingency can help to ensure that costs adjustments

associated with risk can be covered without having to seek additional or new funding. The use of

risk-based contingencies will also provide decision makers with a more accurate assessment of

what the ultimate project cost will be.

MEGAPROJECTS NEED TO MAINTAIN PUBLIC SUPPORT

In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing

can succeed."

Because of their size, complexity, and juxtaposition to existing infrastructure, megaprojects

affect large numbers of people on a day-to-day basis. Construction activity on transportation

megaprojects is necessarily centered in the public's "backyard." And the media will keep the

project's progress—good and bad—in newspapers and on the air.

As a result, the project's ultimate owners—the taxpaying public—are in a position to regularly

observe and continually evaluate the project. The public's support, patience, and tolerance for

inconveniences are vital for the success of the project. Depending on what they perceive and how

they react, they can either extend or withdraw their support for the project. That support is

crucial and special attention is required to maintain it.

REQUIREMENT FOR PROJECT PROPONENTS

These projects are tough undertakings and absolutely require solid project proponents—project

champions—who have the capacity and leadership stature to ensure that the project retains the

required support throughout its life. It is one accomplishment to move a project to construction

contract award. It is another to champion a project through to completion. As with other key

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players, time may see key "faces" change. Yet it is crucial that the project retain individuals or

groups who are capable of maintaining the requisite support.

MANAGING IN A FISHBOWL

Central to maintaining megaproject public support is clearly demonstrating that the project is

being managed appropriately. The public must be satisfied that public funds are being invested

wisely, without waste, fraud, or abuse. The public also must believe that the integrity of the

project's management is beyond reproach. And as far as the public is concerned, "perception

equals reality."

The high visibility of megaprojects heightens the importance of public support. Key to success is

an open management style that yields no surprises or hidden issues. Openness requires frequent

reporting of all news, good and bad. It also requires establishing a means for the public to

interact with the project's management. This interaction is important and can be carefully crafted

to remain comfortably separated from "management by public committee."

POTENTIAL FOR WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE

As with any other large public undertaking, misuse of public resources on a megaproject can

quickly erode public confidence in management's vital stewardship abilities. The mere size of

megaprojects makes them obvious targets for such abuse, and careful and constant vigilance is

mandatory.

DEFINING MEGAPROJECT SUCCESS—THERE IS A "BIGGER"

PICTURE

Megaprojects needs to center on the importance of defining "success" and keeping the eye on the

larger picture. Earning public trust and confidence is basic to any public agency's purpose and

existence. Agencies are charged with ensuring that the programs they oversee are conducted in a

manner that best meets the public interest. The public expects agencies to maintain the highest

standards of integrity, demonstrate competence, make wise decisions, communicate openly and

clearly, and meet commitments. By meeting those expectations, the agency earns the public's

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trust and confidence. As evidenced by Washington State's experience, the public's willingness to

invest resources in any undertaking is directly linked to the quality of that earned trust and

confidence.

Megaprojects are no different with respect to public agency responsibility, yet they are different

and there is "a lot on the line." They provide a unique and exceptional opportunity for members

of the public to focus attention on the transportation community and draw conclusions, deserved

or undeserved, about its competence. Based upon the perception of the project's success, public

trust and confidence in the transportation sector as a whole often lies in the balance.

A successful project needs to leave behind a sense of public pride in both the accomplishment

and the manner of accomplishment. The public leadership, the project delivery process, and the

project management team should have earned the public's trust and confidence as a result of the

undertaking. The public should conclude that the project was a necessary and wise expenditure

of taxpayers' resources and a worthwhile demand upon the public's patience.

The management team that understands what makes megaprojects different, incorporates lessons

learned, establishes clear goals, and uses clearly understood metrics to measure success will have

set the stage for success. Additionally, maintaining effective contact with both the public and the

public leadership and keeping the "larger" picture of success in focus over the project's lifespan

will preserve the public's trust and confidence. And when the project is complete, that team will

have achieved success by every definition.

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PRACTICAL ASPECTS

Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) erstwhile Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan

(ADBP) is the premier financial institution geared towards the development of agriculture sector

through provision of financial services and technical knowhow. The restructuring of former

ADBP is being carried out with the aim to uplift the agriculture and rural sector by raising farm

productivity, streamlining the institutional credit and increasing income generating capacity of

the farming community. ZTBL was incorporated as a Public Limited Company on 14th

December, 2002 through repeal of ADB Ordinance of 1961.

The new corporate structure redefines the bank's status as a public limited company registered

under companies Ordinance'1984 with an independent Board of Directors which aims at

ensuring good governance, autonomy, delivering high quality

ZTBL is a key R.F.I of Pakistan providing affordable, rural and agriculture financial/non-

financial services to the rural Pakistan , comprising 68 % of the total population. The Bank

through a country-wide network of 359 branches is serving around half a million clients annually

and over one million accumulated account holders with the average loan size of around

Rs.162331 serving 68%, 29% & 3 % of subsistence, economic and large growers respectively.

The total assets of the Bank stand at Rs.123 billion with authorized capital of Rs.25 billion as of

31.12.2011, with a nation-wide working strength comprises 5789 employees. The share of ZTBL

in total national institutional agricultural credit is 23% as on 30.06.2012.

ZTBL was incorporated as a Public Limited Company on 14th December, 2002 through repeal

of formal Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan Ordinance of 1961. Thereby transforming

the bank as a corporate entity to serve as a R. F.I

CORPORATE OBJECTIVES

Develop and operate as a financially and operationally sustainable R.F.I of the country.

Assist rural community, particularly the small farmers, in raising their productivity and

income levels through timely delivery of credit, advisory and ancillary services.

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Build ZTBL's image as a proactive, client friendly, financially & operationally

sustainable with indigenous product deployment.

Establish and provide backward and forward linkages to strengthen agri. value added

commodity chains.

Engage in public - private and wholesale - retail partnership to deepen outreach and

reduce operating cost.

To function as a rural commercial bank to mobilize rural capital formation and to

commercialize the agri. sector by delivering the true value of credit to the client. Provide

a wide range of risk insurance products to its clients.

Open up it venues of operation to Domestic & International Banking Industry to avail

comparative advantages.

TRANSFORMATION OF ZTBL TO R.F.I OF THE COUNTRY AND

ROAD TO EXCELLENCE

Healthy and well-functioning rural finance markets are directly related to achieving the two key

national policy objectives of accelerating rural/agriculture growth and reducing poverty. The

realization of these objectives depends on the simultaneity of developments in rural finance and

non-financial markets to foster the creation of diverse sources of rural finance to build

sustainable financial institutions, and stimulate products and capital flows in the rural sector. For

this, rural finance must be seen as an integral part of equitable development within a framework

of macroeconomic stability. The ongoing corporatize restructuring lays the basis for fundamental

reforms for rural finance market development.

The recurring financial drain, pursuing the old rural finance paradigm and the narrowing fiscal

space have also promoted a shift in Government strategy that now seeks viable intermediaries for

enhancing outreach.

PROJECT TYPES

Bank manages its projects in the form of loans and launching small and mega projects. Only

purpose of ZTBL is to provide customers with facility of grooming in agriculture sector by

nourishing and growing crops in order to boost country’s economy and agricultural sector.

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Bank provides with following types of loans

1. Project loans

2. General loans

PROJECT LOANS

Project Loan is the term used for the long term funding of industrial projects and infrastructure

projects based upon the projected cash flows from the project. Practically, a project loan also

known as project financing, involves equity investors, known as sponsors, as well as banking and

other financial institutions that provide loans to the operation. The loans are secured loans, which

are secured by the project assets and paid entirely from future generated project cash flow, rather

than from the general assets or creditworthiness of the project sponsors. The financing is

typically secured by all of the project assets, including the revenue-producing contracts. Project

lenders are given a lien on all of these assets, and are able to assume control of a project if the

project company has difficulties complying with the loan terms.

ZTBL specializes in helping customers grow. Therefore whatever sector, and at whatever stage

of growth your business is in, bank have the industry knowledge and financial expertise to

optimize your finances, and help your business thrive.

Project loan from ZTBL would be tailored to suit needs and business cycles. Long term loans

can be structured to finance start up projects, expansions, relocations, management buy outs

(MBO's), balance sheet restructuring etc.

ZTBL project finance has the capacity and capability to act as a service provider for local and

global financial institutions in the area of project evaluation and project implementation by

utilizing the highly skilled professional staff of Project Finance

Loans above 40 lac is considered as projects loans

GENERAL LOANS

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Loans that are below 40 lac are termed as general loans in ZTBL. In 1997 government did

capping of loans. Capping was done to facilitate small scale farmers to get more benefits.

Capping restricted the amount of loan to maximum of 10 lac to a farmer.

Project management of loan provision is done on following basis

Small farmers

o 70 % provision out of total allocated loans by bank

o Farmers with 12.5 acres or less is considered small farmer

Subsistence farmers

o 20% provision out of total allocated loans by bank

o Farmers with 12.5 to 64 acres land

Big farmers

o 10 % provision out of total allocated loans by bank

o Farmers with more than 64 acres land.

TERM WISE LOANS

Short term loans Recoverable in one year

Medium term loans Recoverable in 5 years

Long term loans Recoverable in more than 5 years

Following are the project that are being run and managed by bank

GREEN REVOLUTION PROJECT

In order to achieve the aim of providing farm machinery and implements to encourage the

mechanized farming for the enhancement of agriculture productivity as compared with

traditional tillage system a Memorandum of Understanding between Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd.

and Department of Agriculture. AJ&K has been signed under title of Green Tractor Scheme. The

main features of this scheme are listed hereunder

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Operational Jurisdiction:

Throughout AJ&K Area

Selection of Borrowers:

Bank MCO Selects the Borrowers on the recommendation of Department of Agriculture, AJ&K

Delivery Channel :

Branch/Department of Agriculture, AJ&K

Mark up Rate: One year Kibor plus 2% margin- (presently it is 14.3% p.a with 1% rebate on timely repayment.

Document Required :

CNIC Photocopy, Loan Case File, Agri. Pass Book & 2 recent photographs of borrower

Collateral: Tangible Properties Maximum Credit Limit:

Rs.1.000 million per borrower/party

Incentive: AJ&K Government would reimburse the amount of mark up charged by the Bank on the basis of receipt issued by ZTBL provided the borrowers repay the loans on due date.

Repayment: The loan will be recoverable within 5 years in 10 equal installments commencing after six month of issuance of DD.

Cost of Credit: Loan Case File Rs.200/- Postal Charge Rs.1000/- for the Development Loanswith 5 year tenure. Appraisal Fee (LA fee @ 1% upto loan of Rs.50,000/- & 2% above

Rs.50,000/- to 1.000 Million)

Equity Contribution:

10% of the price of agri. machinery

Lonable Items: Farm Machinery & Implements

WHITE REVOLUTION PROJECT

Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd has been financing Milk Processing Units for UHT as well as

pasteurized besides conventional dairy farming in the country since long. Bank has now

embarked upon to bring white revolution in the country through integration of dairy farmers and

milk processors.

In order to increase milk supply, mitigate poverty in the country and improve the living standard

of the rural populace, as a first step, modalities of Strategic Partnership of Bank with M/s. Nestlé

Pakistan Ltd. have been worked out and an agreement to this effect has been executed.

Operational Jurisdiction: Throughout Punjab Province

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Selection of Borrowers: M/s Nestlé identifies the borrowers (existing as well as new dairy farmers) to recommend concerned ZTBL Branch through Model Branch Lahore.

Delivery Channel: Nestlé/ ZTBL BranchCollateral: Tangible PropertiesDocuments Required: CNIC Photocopy, Loan Case File, IB-7 Agreement , Agri. Pass Book &

2 Photograph & Building Plan (if dairy structure involves).

Loanable Items/maximum limit:

Dairy sheds/structure

Local Buffalo/Cow Imported Cow with

calf Working Capital

As per prescribed ratesUpto Rs. 80,000/- per headUpto Rs.125,000/- per headUpto Rs. 6,000/ per head

Maximum Loan Limit: Rs.1 million per borrower/party.Cost of Credit: Loan Case File- Rs.200/-,

Appraisal Fee:@1% of loan amount upto Rs.50,000/-, @ 2% of loan amount exceeding Rs.50,000/-, Postal Charges Rs.500/- per yearMark-Up Rate is One year Kibor plus 2% margin- (presently it is 14.3% p.a with 1% rebate on timely repayment).

Insurance of Animals Bank arranges insurance of animals through M/s Adamjee Insurance Company Ltd.

Equity Contribution: 10% of the cost of the ProjectDisbursement of Loan: Loans for sheds and working capital will be disbursed in cash in

suitable installments. Imported cows through Nestlé. Local Cow/Buffaloes through pay order/DD in the name of

seller.

Allocation of Funds: For the five years 2007-2011 Rs.5 Billion have been allocated to finance 10,000 animals each year.

Monitoring of Loan: M/s Nestlé will carry out monitoring of loan to update the branch periodically.

Recovery Period: 5 years in monthly/weekly installments with grace period of 1-3 months for local and imported animals respectively.

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ESTABLISHMENT OF MODEL VILLAGE BY ZTBL

In order to implement Government's vision to ensure development of Agri. Sector in a phased

manner, establishment of one Model Village in each Zone of the Bank is launched. The pilot

project will be implemented with the collaboration of Ministry of Food & Agriculture/ Provincial

Agriculture Departments.

An exclusive Agriculture Officer/Mobile Credit Officer is posted in each selected Model Village

who will be responsible for provision of services to the farming community such as:

Provision of credit facilities for 100% requirements

Improvement of present/existing production level is done by introducing latest technologies

among the farmers of the area in collaboration with public and private agencies dealing in farm

inputs/agri-technologies.

Extend full support to raise income of inhabitants in dairy, poultry, livestock and bee farming

etc. Facilitate farmers in marketing of the ir crops/produces on the best prevailing market rates.

ENERGY SAVING PROJECT (BIO GAS UNITS)

In order to help the farmers to overcome energy crisis, this scheme has been introduced to provide an alternate energy resource.

Eligibility Criteria: One or more than one creditworthy borrowers having capacity to repay & possessing technical know how of Bio-Gas Unit can get financing for Bio-Gas Unit.

Collateral: As regards security, tangible properties owned by the borrowers and in case of its non-availability, parents/family member property can be accepted as a co-applicant.

Maximum Limit of Loan: Loans for four types of Bio-Gas Units (8m3, 30m3, 50m3 & 100m3) with price ranging from Rs.50,000/-, 200,000/-, 300,000/- & 750,000/- respectively can be obtained.

Repayment Schedule: The loan will be recovered within five years in half yearly installments. Rate of Mark Up: 14.30% per annum with 1 % rebate on timely repayment (subject to

change from time to time). Sanction of loan: The loan up to Rs.250,000/- would be sanctioned by the Manager & up

to Rs.750000/- by Zonal Credit CommitteeDisbursement of loan: The loan would be disbursed by placing supply order in favour of firm

to be verified by the Branch Manager

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Monitoring: Strict monitoring would be exercised by ensuring checking of utilization by the MCO in 100% cases and sample checking of utilization by the Manager, Zonal Manager Recovery and Internal Auditor of the Bank

PROJECT MANAGER

Project manager is the one who controls, leads and performs function of project management. In

ZTBL, senior vice president SVP is responsible for controlling projects and operating it. SVP

perform following tasks in bank

Policy making

Operations

ZTBL has 358 branches which are headed by branch manager. Besides local branches bank also

ha 31 zonal branches which are headed by zonal chiefs. In all branches, finance manager is

responsible for recovery operations.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

All projects in banks are head by a branch manager which in actual is project manager of that

branch. Projects manager has following duties in bank:

Allocation of resource

Recommendation of project approval to vice president

Credit planning

o Based on state bank allocation

o Distribution of loan

o Credit plan approval

o Area wise disbursement

ISSUES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Following are the type of issues that are faced in project management

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Funds allocation issue Funds disbursement issue Loan recovery issues Misconduct in rules and regulations Government intervention Political influence Multiple project conflict and failures

Following is data of projects that are managed by ZTBL

PARTICULARS JANUARY-DECEMBER'2011 JANUARY-DECEMBER'2012 GROWTH ( % )

A. DISBURSEMENT1 TOTAL AGRI. CREDIT DISBURSEMENT 65451.788 64132.759 -2.02 LOANS TO SMALL FARMERS (25.0 Acs) 58066.462 57617.472 -0.8 SMALL FARMERS AS %AGE OF AGRI. DISB. 88.7 89.8 3 LOANS TO SUBSISTENCE FARMERS 44606.480 45206.724 1.3 SUBSISTENCE FARMERS AS %AGE OF AGRI. DISB. 68.2 70.5 4 PRODUCTION LOANS DISBURSED 58267.014 52014.640 -10.7 PRODUCTION LOANS AS %AGE OF AGRI. DISB. 89.0 81.1 5 FINANCING OF TRACTORS

- NUMBERS 908 7296 703.5 - AMOUNT 431.248 3594.398 733.5 - SHARE IN AGRI. CREDIT 0.7 5.6

6 FINANCING OF TUBEWELLS - NUMBERS 1745 2051 17.5 - AMOUNT 476.253 524.817 10.2 - SHARE IN AGRI. CREDIT 0.7 0.8

7 NUMBER OF BORROWERS SERVED 432834 406392 -6.1Old Borrowers 311609 341844 9.7

New Borrowers 121225 64548 -46.88 SCHEME-WISE DISBURSEMENT

- ONE WINDOW 878.375 1298.491 47.8 - AWAMI ZARAI SCHEME 14751.326 17551.170 19.0 - SADABAHAR 43169.649 31502.555 -27.0 - KISSAN DOST - 4253.251 -

9 TARGET 70000.000 70700.000 - ACHIEVEMENT 65451.788 64132.759 -2.0 - ACHIEVEMENT ( % ) 93.5 90.7

NO.

ZTBL: OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW

( RUPEES MILLION )S.

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SUCCESS RATE

DEPOSITSAS ON 31-12-2012

( RUPEES MILLION )

PROVINCE/ TARGET ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTZONES 2012 ( % )

ISLAMABAD 1220 882 72.3

LAHORE 2295 1171 51.0

SARGODHA 605 474 78.3

FAISALABAD 535 480 89.7

JHANG 454 406 89.4

GUJRANWALA 425 375 88.2

SIALKOT 302 257 85.1

SAHIWAL 345 248 71.9

OKARA 290 260 89.7

VEHARI 400 378 94.5

MULTAN 507 642 126.6

MUZAFFARGARH 339 306 90.3

D.G.KHAN 343 307 89.5

BAHAWALPUR 366 331 90.4

BAHAWALNAGAR 525 513 97.7

R.Y.KHAN 412 468 113.6

KARACHI 1416 514 36.3

HYDERABAD 181 130 71.8

NAWABSHAH ( SBA ) 125 67 53.6

SUKKUR 121 137 113.2

LARKANA 175 130 74.3

MIRPUR KHAS 153 154 100.7

PESHAWAR 345 321 93.0

D.I.KHAN 219 169 77.2

MINGORA 658 614 93.3

ABBOTTABAD 289 226 78.2

QUETTA 677 189 27.9

TURBAT 32 23 71.9

D.M.JAMALI 75 46 61.3

MUZAFFARABAD 579 512 88.4

GILGIT BALTISTAN 592 414 69.9

PAKISTAN:- 15000 11144 74.3

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managers#.UPGHSvKlIlo

4. http://www.ztbl.com.pk/briefOnZTBL.htm

5. http://www.pmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Publications-PM-Network/MegaProject-

Watch.aspx

6. http://www.ndbbank.com/corp_serv/project_loans.jsp

7. http://projectloan.in/

8. References:

9. http://www.projectoffice.co.za/en/project-management/64-managing-small-projects

10. http://www.easyprojects.net/blog/2012/01/16/methodology-for-small-projects/

11. http://www.projecttimes.com/articles/managing-small-projects-the-critical-steps.html

12. http://managingsmallprojects.com/perform-a-formal-project-close.html

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