Part A: Project Influences

1. Analyze the Denver Airport case study from PESTLE perspective 

The study includes with describing the project related to baggage handling system for Denver Airport to improve efficiency of the baggage handling. The system cuts the time of hub operations, and reduces manual baggage operations. The case study of Denver Airport is analyzed using PESTLE perspective which are shown in below table such as:

Factors	Description
Political Save Time On Research and Writing Hire a Pro to Write You a 100% Plagiarism-Free Paper. Get My Paper	The political situation of Denver Airport is such that city of Denver 1983 mayoral is raced the initiatives for improvement over airfield infrastructures. They began to develop plan for longer term development of airport in the year 1984. City of Denver hired a firm to organize resources as well as efforts to work throughout the legal processes.
Economic	There are number of events occurred in mid 1980 alarmed the bank economists and regions of the business leaders in the year 1980. There is collapse of oil shale ventures in the year 1982, 1986 caused fall of the employments levels. Lack of economy lead the governments and Denver to unprecedented the policies of public construction to save the regions.
Social	There is maintenance of healthy relations with the contractors by providing them with an authentication of the information regards to the business operations. The propose system will help in customer loyalty so that more customers are attached towards the airport services.
Technological	The airport is decided to develop the baggage handling system on smaller scale which results to increase the profitability of the airport functions. The baggage system is selected as innovative technology due to complex size of project, complex architecture as well as innovative techniques.
Legal	The legal authorities can help to maintain the airport operations such as baggage handling system for easier transport facilities.
Environmental	The airport is developed of environmental management system to identify as well as mitigate the impacts towards the environment from the airport operations.

The project influences provide positive impact on the project success by following some of the steps such as:

1. Management of resources:Denver International Airport (DIA) is involved with various sources like public working program, administration those are part of outsourcing. In order to develop the plan for the airport, the management decided to build a new baggage handling system which allows the airport to expand without providing effect on business efficiency (Walker, 2015). There are various financial influences in DIA; therefore cost is key significant factor to choose outsourcing for earning considerable profits.
2. Manage business efficiency:DIA is consisted of service management system which is structure integrated, and it is included with larger scale project and embedded technology.

Yes, the decision regarding building of new airport at Denver is a proper decision. It is because the airport is experiencing expansion proceeding to the deregulations. Deregulations are open marketplace rivalry which brings the air travel to attain average person, therefore there is increasing in air traffic at the Stapleton airport. The regional council of the governments forecasted that the airport is not capable to handle necessary traffic by the year 2000. Denver Stapleton Airport is major linking airports and it was positioned top ten in US. The blocks of Denver is affected the airports as it had two of the runways locate each other. The new airport is built to solve the problems for Denver City (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017). Stapleton Airport was being affected by higher velocity which was resulted in operations changed from one to added direction. It resulted into 45 minutes. New airport brings time to 4 minutes; therefore it would save cost as well as time for the airport.   

1. Describe the decisions need to focus on first regarding project feasibility 

Denver Airport baggage handling system results in transform of the project beneath the project feasibility assessment. In this particular project, getting of requirement devoid of feasibility continued to scope creep even there is overdue of project as well as over budget. Feasibility study is aimed to test both strengths as well as weakness of the project as it is included of resources, assessment of risks, opportunities and threats within the business environment (Zhou, Goh, & Li, 2015). The project manager considered a feasibility assessment in change of the project, and then the problems are not happened. The feasibility of this project is considered based on size of airport as well as flow quantities of baggage. RFID is not feasible and cost effective for the daily identification but it is provided various stages of the supply chain.  

2. Assess the size and scale of the Denver Airport construction project 

Development of the automated baggage system at Denver has much smaller scale, but it is not functioning in such a larger system. Size of the Denver airport project is large with development of largest automated baggage handling system. The airport has a ability to handle additional than 50m passengers annually (Alias et al., 2014). As planned, the system of Denver is not so complex. Ten times larger than the automated system, there is an increase of size which resulted in exponential growth in the project complexity. In order to optimize the system performance, the empty carts are being dispersed around the airport for picking the new bags. The quantum bound in terms of size as well as difficulty finished the Denver system in two years which was unfeasible tasks (Turner, 2016). Due to size of airport, the manual system is not faster to meet with turnaround requirements of the aircraft.

3. Analyze the need for estimations of project cost and profitability 

Part B: Assessing Project Viability

The baggage handling system design is included with higher tech components. The total cost of proposed system for Denver Airport is $193 million dollars. Change in design of the automated system cost is the business efficiency. Most of the cost is increased because of change in the extent of airport such as there is adding of automated baggage system (Tezel et al., 2015). In addition to all this, $1 billion growth into the construction cost, there is 16 days delays in the operations because of automated baggage system caused complications with increase of capitalized construction interest to be around $300 million.

The Denver airport is struggling to remain profitable in the market due to lack into the operational performance due to use of manual baggage system. Outsourcing is done to earn profit in the cost management (Hu et al., 2016). The proposed system will increase terminal efficiency of the airport and throughout of the baggage system. The airline is benefited on organizational revenue, decrease in cost to handle the baggage as well as there is an improvement over the customer satisfaction (Flouris & Lock, 2016). The use of bag storage is benefited smoothing peaks in the project activity as well as it enables the baggage system to cope with the spikes within throughout.  

4. Explain decisions and recommendations

In order to cope up with the challenges that DIA faced which is change in the organizational strategy as well as scope creep, there are recommendations which are suggested to the management of Denver Airport to make profitability in the business operations. The recommendation is that development of baggage handling system for Denver Airport should be relied on the structure of IT governance. The corporate governance is vital to maintain the project requirements instill rules along with policies. The IT governance structure of airport should consider of ITIL (Information technology Infrastructure Library). It is focused to help on the IT services based on the business requirements. The project manager should be more focused on leadership behavior so that they can maintain a effective business operations as well as complete the project on time.

1. Analyzing roles of:

Risk management: In case of DIA, it is mentioned that due to various reasons, there are several delays in the project completion time. Therefore, the risk management for Denver airport case is crucial. The study shows that there are risks which are involved within the project along with form of apposite back up plan in place there is low potential of risk to be concerned in the construction project (Uhl & Gollenia, 2016). There is also risk at initial phase of the construction work when the work was started in 1989 without single contract being signed between DIA as well as major airlines.

Part C: Project Planning

Quality management: The baggage handling system should make an improvement over quality of the business operations that Denver airport is providing to their customers. The entire baggage handling process becomes faster in addition to automated. The passengers perceive baggage handling as major contributor to the airport as well as quality of airline. There is an increase of competition among the air transport industry (Larson & Gray, 2016). Therefore, there is an improvement over the baggage handling processes.

Change management: The change management of the automated baggage handling system is allowed acceptance of the change request which are required to redesign the portions to be completed. The design is not included of any backup system, which is required with higher mechanical as well as computer reliability (Budayan, Dikmen, & Birgonul, 2015). It increases in failure of risks.   

2. Describe the impact these plans have on the project 

The construction project of automated baggage handling system provides an impact on mishandled of the baggage’s among the stakeholders. Effective baggage handling system is not required of automation. It causes to improve in process to handle the baggage. It provides a high impact on the cost along with quality of the services (Kerzner, 2018). The international hub is handling the transfer of baggage, which is introduced to sort the problems. Volume of the baggage handled to raise the risk of congestions, errors in routing along with control the problems (Turner, 2016). The physical size of the airport leads to increase in transport time along with leave less time for definite sorting as well as handing of the baggage items. The passengers get hassle free process which is faster in addition to reliable combined with short transfers. The airlines are provided with passenger satisfaction along with fleet utilization. There is reduction of cost for delivery as well as damage charges of the baggage by the airlines. The airport is achieved of high quality at moderate investments (Verzuh, 2015). Quality is considered as a major factor as the passengers tend to attribute errors as well as delays to handle the baggage to the airport.

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