1. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
Stan Cochran,
MGMT/505
Project Management Fundamentals
Instructor: Joel Light PhD
February 10, 2012

2. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
Great Alaska Adventures (GAA) has been asked to plan a fly fishing trip by the president of BlueNote, Inc.
The president is rewarding the top productive management team for their work by giving them an all-expense-paid fly fishing trip in Alaska.

3. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
The management for GAA will be responsible for organizing and leading this fishing trip.
This trip will last for five days in June and be on the Tikchik River, and the cost is not to exceed $27,000.
The leadership at GAA will figure out all requirements and meet back with the president of BlueNote, Inc to make sure everything is correct and both sides understand their requirements for this project.

4. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip

5. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
Transportation requirements:
Guests are responsible for travel arrangements to from Dillingham, Alaska.
GAA will provide air transportation from Dillingham, Alaska to Camp I and from Camp II back to Dillingham.
GAA will provide river transportation consisting of two eight-man boats with out-board motors.

6. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
Lodging:
GAA will provide overnight accommodations at the Dillingham lodge.
GAA will furnish three four-man tents with cots, bedding, and lanterns for nights on the Tikchik River.

7. Fishing Equipment and other requirements:
Guests are responsible for their own fly-fishing equipment and clothing.
GAA will furnish four hours of fly-fishing lessons.
GAA will furnish four experienced river guides with fly-fishing experience.
GAA will provide licenses for all the guests.
GAA will furnish three meals a day for the five days spent on the river.
Guests are responsible for all fish caught

8. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
GAA needs to identify leaders for each phase of the fly-fishing trip.
Team leaders need to be identified for each phase of the trip and for making sure all the resources have been ordered and are will be ready when needed.
The Responsibility Matrix will identify what each leaders is responsible for.

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Responsibility Matrix
Task
Project Manager
Asst. Project Manager
Guide 1
Guide 2
Guide 3
Guide 4
Training for fly-fishing X
Training for medical emergencies
Meals
Bedding Equipement
Budget
Guides
Licenses
Boats
Plane Transportation

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GAA needs to identify all the risks associated with this fly-fishing trip and have contingency plans for any possibilities of problems with the project
GAA will assess all the possible risk a build a Risk Assessment Chart.
GAA will establish a metric for responding to these risks.
GAA will identify this in a Risk Response Matrix that will help all the team leaders understand their responsibilities.

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RISK ASSESSMENT
Risk Event
Likelihood
Impact
Detection Difficulty
When
Plane Problems to and from Base Camps
Low
Moderate
To and from base camps
Weather problems
Before and during the fishing trip
Health Problems
During trip
Accident / medical problems
High
Late arrival
Before trip
Lost Equipment
Communcation

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Risk Response Matrix
Risk Event
Response
Contingency Plan
Trigger
Who is Responsible
Plane Problems to and from Base Camps
Evaluate problem to see time impact
Have 2nd source ready for emergency
Soon as time delay is extablished
GAA
Weather problems
Have temp. emergency paln in place
Have emgency evacuation plan ready
Trigger depends on severity of weather
Health Problems
Guides have training for health emergencies
Trigger depends on severity of health problem
GAA/ BlueNote
Accident / medical problems
Trigger depends on severity of problem
Late arrival
Depends on how late arrival
Fewer days of fishing
When customers do not arrive on time
BlueNote
Lost Equipment
Have backup equipment
Have more equipment sent
Once equipment is lost
Communcation
Have backup at base camps
Once equipment breaks use backup

13. Alaska Fly-Fishing Trip
It is extremely important to develop a project scope that will help define the trip and will serve both the supplier and the customer needs.
The project scope will show everyone involved all the issues and responsibilities of everyone.
The project scope will identify the objective of the project, all the deliverables that need to be furnished, a milestone chart that gives a time-line of the project, any technical requirements, limits and exclusions, and all this will be reviewed with the customer to make sure everyone knows what the final outcome is to look like.

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When all the requirements are understood and the risk analyzed the project has the best chance for success.
For this Fly Fishing Trip to be memorable the customers need to enjoy the trip and have no incidents that cause problems.
Project management will aid in making sure the customers get what they expect and the project will be successful.

15. References Cochran, Stanley. February 10, 2012. Milestone Chart.
Cochran, Stanley. February 10, Responsibility Chart.
Cochran, Stanley. February 9, Risk Assessment Chart.
Cochran, Stanley. February 10, Risk Response Matrix.
Larson, E., & Gray, C. (2011). Project management, the managerial process. (5 ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Professional Pub.