Developing a Defendable Project Schedule for a Life Style Centre

Learning Outcome(s) assessed
1. Develop detailed project schedules cognisant of procedural logic, dependencies, external  constraints and resource implications;
2. Apply advanced planning, control and analysis methodologies, tools and techniques to complex projects;
3 Understand and apply advanced concepts of modelling and simulation in order to predict outcomes of project schedules;
4 Critically evaluate planning, contract and analysis techniques to select defendable solutions for the mitigation of project overruns
Assignment Brief
The assessment this year is in two assignment parts. The first assignment has a weighing of  60% and the second assignment a weighting of 40%.
Assignment Title: Assignment 1 – Specific Life Style Programme
The aim of this assignment is to develop your planning and analytical skills in the context of a complex project orientated environment.Outline of Task:
You are required to develop a defendable project that will be implemented within a new Life Style Centre (LSC). This project is situated in a village of 15,000 inhabitants. The LSC is
situated on an area that was acquired from the Lancashire Council of dimensions 125 metres by 80 metres. LSC involves the following physical spaces:
? New village library facility/Learning information support
? Multi-faith centre
? Gymnasium
? Crèche/Mums & Toddlers
? Multipurpose functional spaces
? Car parking facilities
Your defendable project will be in any area that can be addressed within the LSC facilities,
(e.g. IT, security, building, interior design, social mobility, Alcohol anonymous (AA), Ramblers club, Photographic society project, Historic Lancashire, Silver surfers, and Cafeteria). Your  area of focus should be clearly stated at the start of the assignment.
The submission must include a project schedule of at least 40 activities and clearly identify  the logic of activity sequencing and relationships between the activities. For any simulated project chosen, the minimum completion time of the project should be six calendar months. All dependencies, constraints and resources are to be included. This report will contribute to 60% of the final assessment of this module. A word count of 2,400 is expected for this section  of the assignment.
Section 1: A detailed project schedule applying procedural logic, and clearly showing dependencies, constraints and resource implications. Provide a list of all assumptions you have made in constructing the schedule. Please take note: - It is given that the project start Section 2: Using the schedule developed in section 1, set the Baseline of the project, and
track the progress of project after three calendar months on Friday the 10th of July 2020.
Assume that due to inflation and other uncertainties in the UK environment, there is an increase in cost of 10% in the activities of the project at the beginning of the project. The durations of the activities of the project for the first three months are affected by 15% increase in time due to supply chain delays and other market forces impacting of the project. Produce a report that presents values for the following:
? The percentage of work completed three months after your project start date?
? The Actual costs (ACWP) of the project on 10th July 2019?
? Planned Value (BCWS)
? Earned Value (BCWP)
? Schedule variance
? Cost variance
Section 3: Give a reflective report on the exercise you have just completed in sections 1 & 2Also provide a list of references you have used in developing your submission.