Project Planning for New Retail Store in Canada | Terrapin Construction Supply

Task:

In this two-week project, you will work with a project team made up of your fellow students using basic project management skills to plan for the design, construction, outfitting, and stocking of a new retail store in Canada for your US-based home improvement company. As this is the first time the company has opened a store in an international market, your team will blaze a new trail for the company and set the example for future international expansion.

This project will require you and your team to create several deliverables using templates provided in the steps below to ensure that the new store is fully operational by the target date. You will have two weeks to complete all nine steps.
You will need to know the high-level deliverables and timelines for this project, which can be found in the project statement of work (SOW).
The SOW for this project lists the following requirements:

Design the new store building, garage, parking lots, and landscaping
Obtain required licenses and permits
Prepare the site and lay the foundation
Construct the new store building and finish the interior
Construct the garage and garden center
Outfit the store with shelves, fixtures, and IT systems (e.g., communications and payment systems) pave the parking lots and landscape the exterior of the store
Stock the store with inventory (For this project, stick to a storewide, high-level inventory budget, though you may have to make estimates based on different product categories, such as lumber, hardware, appliances, etc.)

Staff, hire, and train store personnel The SOW specifically notes that your project scope does not include the following: Marketing or publicity other actions and costs related to operation of the new store

From your client file on Terrapin Construction Supply, Inc., you are informed that there are five major product groups at each TCS store: plumbing and electrical supplies; building materials; hardware and tools; seasonal, garden, and yard items; and paint, flooring, and wall coverings.

Each TCS store has a store manager, assistant store manager, bookkeeper, information systems manager, a manager for each of the five major product groups, customer service employees to assist with purchases on the store floor, cashiers, receiving and stocking employees, and maintenance and janitorial employees.

In summary, you know a lot about what you need to have 10 months from now, but how will you get there? You do not have much experience with formal project management so you message a colleague who recently acquired a project management professional (PMP) certification.
In this step, your team will develop a project risk register using the provided risk register template. The risk register must include at least 10 project risks, both internal and external, as well as the projected response or responses to those risks. Keep in mind that you are conducting a project in a foreign country, Canada, which itself will add some risk because the official language in the province of Quebec is French.
When you have completed your risk register and identified at least 10 project risks, continue to the next step, where you will develop a project cost estimate.