LT2E05N - Seminar 4

In Week 4, we researched more about our proposed event which was now christian aid. We had a look situational analysis. Internal factors such as strength and weaknesses and external factors such as opportunities and threats. We done an enviromental scanning off the event using PESTEL.

politics of our organisation - christian aid stand for fair trade, helping third world countries, Conflict, HIV/IDS. Will the event be approved by its stakeholders.

Economic - Our audeince, the impact the event will have on Christian Aids economy

Social - How will the Event affect the society its taking place in. The Generation Gap of our auience we are targeting.

Technological - Technology will affect the way we propose our event, we can use latest technology such as podcasting, mp3 downloads, internet . All this can emerge the way our event is promoted.

Legal Factors - There are a few factors we would have to take to consideration when working with volunteers for example, child protection act (cbr forms). We also have to find out what lesiglation laws apply to us.

LT2E05N - Seminar 6

Nearly half way through our project. Everyone in the group are taking to their tasks and we added a new member to our group (Eva). She would now be joing John in the production team to take abit of his workload off. In the Seminar today, We just went over all employability tasks and made sure they were complete, Nigel also wanted to see a draft of everyones proposal and re-iterated a Gant chart to us and the importance of having one in our event. We also started of briefly a risk assesment scheduele for our event.

Seminar 5

In seminar 5, we had to in our groups design a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), this is used to represents all activities that will be performed at our event. The whole idea behind this was to see the event scheduele and budgets which was my job as I am in the commercial team and capturing all work that needs to be done, estimate costs for the WBS elements. John's Role (Operations Team) is to determine order and duration of WBS elements as an input into scedule and Julien's Role (Marketing Team) is to finalize promotional requirements that might be needed for the event. This also allowed us to create an event risk management plan which is the operations team and production teams job. To design a WBS, we used an example of a tricycle, we listed all the components that would be needed to make a tricycle and used sub components that would be used to make a frame or add to a full working frame e.g. 1.1 frame set---->>> 1.1.1 Handle bar ---->>>> 1.1.2 Handle Bar e.t.c.
The use of a WBS is to aggregate tasks under headings or aggregrate tasks into work groups in the organisation.
In our groups we had to create a Work Breakdown Structure on Paper and decide what event elements are needed to create our event and what sub task are needed and what element they fall under.