Alaska Fly-Fishing Expedition

Chapter 7, Case Study 1: Alaska Fly-Fishing Expedition and Pg. No. 231-232

Karthik Kakumanu

MBA 6310 – Project Management

August 11, 2017

Chapter 7 case: Alaska Fly-Fishing Expedition (p. 231-232)

Summary

The Great Alaska Adventures (GAA) has been made a request to design a fly angling trip by the leader of BlueNote, Inc. The president is remunerating the best profitable administration group for their work by giving them an all-cost paid fly fishing trip in Alaska. The management of GAA will be in charge of sorting out and driving this fishing trip. This excursion will keep going for five days in June from 21-25 and be on the Tikchik River system, and the cost is not to surpass $18,000. The administration at GAA will make sense of all necessities and meet back with the leader of BlueNote, Inc to ensure everything is right and the two sides comprehend their prerequisites for this venture.

This paper will clarify why every last one of the means of the project is essential. In the first place a leader must be chosen, this person is in charge of everything and must make sure that the project is done with in the allocated budget. This project is basically about the fly-fishing trip and in this the project manager forms an adventure group and will come out with a plot in which everyone is given their respective role in the trip.

Answers to Questions

1. Brainstorm potential risks associated with this project. Try to come up with at least five different risks.

• Extreme weather conditions.
• There might not be no GPS available in the river, so must rely on the conventional maps and a hand compass.
• In case of the delay in the issue of the fishing permits.
• Resources and the medical care must be managed properly.
• Boats ought to be overseen by experienced and equipped staff to stay away from catastrophes.
• Performance and the reliability of the boats cannot be trusted if something goes wrong in extreme weather conditions.

1. Use a risk assessment matrix similar to figure 7.4 to analyze identified tasks.

Table 1

Risk assessment matrix