Defining the Project
1. Answer Table 1 below after watching (a) Panama Canal Project.
Refer to the attached document for the definitions of the terms in the table.
Project Attribute
Project drivers
Project Source
Original Panama Canal
Project
The initial purpose for
building the canal was to
shorten the distance ships
had to travel between
Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. It enabled shippers
to cheaply transport
different types of goods in
a shorter period of time.
Theodore Roosevelt push
to have the U.S. build the
Panama Canal. It was his
most famous project.
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Current Panama Canal
Expansion Project
To achieve long-term
sustainability and growth
for the Canal's
contributions to
Panamanian society
through the payments it
makes to the National
Treasury; maintain the
Canal's competitiveness as
well as the value added by
Panama's maritime route to
the national economy;
increase the Canal's
capacity to capture the
growing tonnage demand
with the appropriate levels
of service for each market
segment; and, make the
Canal more productive,
safe and efficient.
Panamanian
President Martín
Torrijos formally proposed
the project on 24 April
2006.  A national
referendum approved the
proposal. The project
formally began in 2007. It
was initially announced
that the Canal expansion
would be completed by
August 2014 to coincide
with the 100th anniversary
of the opening of the
Panama Canal, but various
setbacks, including strikes
and disputes with the

Customer shipping companies,
military applications,
cruise destination, and the
people
Degree of Certainty Expectations are not
clearly defined at the
beginning, but likely to
change as the project
evolves.
Expected Outcomes
The overall point of the
Panama Canal was to open
a passage way, in which
the Navy and all nations
could use. It ended up
becoming a shorter
distance to travel for cargo
ships, cruise ships.
Therefore, greatly
reducing the cost of
shipping, also reducing the
time it took to get to the
United States.
Organizational Reach The project spans several
functional units or
departments such as teams
construction consortium
over cost overruns, pushed
the completion date back
several times. Following
additional difficulties
including seepage from the
new locks, the expansion
was opened on 26 June
2016. The expansion
doubled the Canal’s
capacity. On March 2,
2018, the Panama Canal
Authority announced that
3,000 New Panamax ships
had crossed the canal
expansion during its first
20 months of operation.
shipping companies,
military applications,
cruise destination, and the
people
Expectations are not
clearly defined at the
beginning, but likely to
change as the project
evolves.
Expected to impact U.S.
water and ground freight
transportation systems
significantly (including
cargo distribution, port
development, U.S. supply
chains, and logistics). A
greater flow of container
trade between various
Asian countries and the
U.S. is expected.
The project spans several
functional units or
departments such as teams
 of talented architects, of talented architects,
engineers, construction engineers, construction
workers, and government workers, and government
interference. interference.

Scope Large budget and long Large budget and long

timeline timeline

Degree of complexity High complexity: proper High complexity: proper

and accurate planning, in-
depth analysis and the
people involved in this
project must be carefully
coordinate or integrated.
and accurate planning, in-
depth analysis and the
people involved in this
project must be carefully
coordinate or integrated.

Strategic Level It is more on strategic It is more on strategic

planning. planning.

2. Choose only one of the two other videos (i.e., either the Thai Football Team Rescue or Separation
of conjoined twins) to answer Table 2 below.

Project Attribute Thai Football Team Rescue

Project drivers To perform a rescue mission.

Project Source A request from the Thai Government.

Customer The Wild Boar Youth Football Team and their coach.

Degree of Certainty Expectations are not clearly defined at the beginning, but
likely to change as the project evolves.

Expected Outcomes They expected that some of the boys would die.

Organizational Reach The project spans several functional units or departments

(divers, cave experts; some volunteers, individuals
and organizations that brought in pumps, medical,
logistical, administrative support, police officers, and
soldiers.)

Scope The rescue itself took place across three days, with

Stanton and Volanthen aided by an international cave
diving team. They had to be quick – air supply in the
cave was dwindling and more monsoon rains were in the
forecast.

Degree of Complexity High complexity: divers, cave experts; some

volunteers, individuals and organizations that
 brought in pumps, and farmers who willingly
allowed pumped out water inundate and kill their
crops, medical, logistical, administrative support,
police officers, and soldiers must be carefully coordinate
or integrated.

Strategic Level The rescue effort was a carefully coordinated

strategy such as clearly associate the future state,
prioritize, act on it, bring in external resources and
pivot.

3. For each project (Panama Canal and the other project that you have chosen), enumerate and
explain the factors that made each project successful.
 Both projects are successful because they are thoughtfully planned, developed, and
delivered. There are factors that are integral to project success such as building the
right team, assigning tasks correctly, maintaining open communication, managing
risk, and appropriately closing the project. 

4. Assume that you have been appointed as project leader of the vaccination project of your LGU.
Prepare the WBS for this project and the WBS coding.

VACCINATION
PROJECT

EXECUTING/CONTROL
PLANNING CLOSING
LING

VACCINE SCHEDULE TEMPERATURE CHECK REST

VACCINE BUDGET BLOOD PRESSURE EFFECTS OF VACCINE

GATHER AND
DOCUMENT VACCINE IDENTIFICATION
REQUIREMENTS

IDENTIFY, ANALYZE,
AND PRIORITIZE SCREENING
VACCINE RISKS

ASSESSMENT

CONFIRMATION

VACCINATION