BQS 560 _AP2244C_ASSIGNMENT 1_ A REVIEW ON SELECTED MOVIE AND THE ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT_FAZITA_FAIHZ_AMEERA_ALLY

DEPARTMENT OF QUANTITY SURVEYING
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND
SURVEYING
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA, SHAH ALAM

BQS 560 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT I



ASSIGNMENT 1:
A REVIEW ON SELECTED MOVIE AND THE

ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PREPARED BY: MATRIC NO.

NAME 2021505217
2021504907
NUR FAZITA BINTI KAMSANI 2021378419
AMEERA NABILA BINTI ZULNAIDI 2021118179
FAIHZ AMIRUL BIN SAPAR
ALLY ZULFADHLI BIN RAHMAT

PREPARED FOR:
MADAM SUZANA C.ALIH

CONTENT PAGE

TNETNOC FO ELBAT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1

INTRODUCTION 2

ASPECT 1: 3-5
ACCOUNTABILITY

ASPECT 2: 6-9
INNOVATION

ASPECT 3: 10 - 12
MOTIVATION

ASPECT 4: 13 - 15
TEAMWORK
16
CONCLUSION 17 - 18
REFERANCES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to Allah
for providing us with the opportunity and ample time to complete
this written report (e-Magazine): A review of the selected movie
and the aspects of project management, as assigned by our
Project Management (BQS560) lecturer. Hopefully, all this
knowledge can be implemented by us in the future. We would like to
thank Madam Suzana C. Alih, our course lecturer, for her support
and guidance for us from the beginning of the assignment to its
completion. Her patience and frequent responses were something
we greatly admired about her, and they enabled us to complete
this assignment with heartfelt content. Apart from that, we would
like to show our thanks to all the group members for their
cooperation and patience in completing the task, especially during
these hard times of pandemic COVID-19. There were a lot of
challenges in producing a good outcome from the assignment since
everything was done online, including the discussion among the
group members. In conjunction, our special gratitude goes to
everyone who was involved directly or indirectly throughout its
completion. Your kindness is really appreciated.

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INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS PROJECT
MANAGEMENT?

Project management is the application of
techniques, methods, skills, knowledge, and
experience to achieve particular project
objectives within agreed-upon constraints.
Project management has final outputs that are
limited in time and budget.

A BUG'S LIFE MOVIE
SYNOPSIS

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-
animated comedy film directed by Pixar
Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney
Pictures.

The film is about Flik, an inventive ant
who is always creating chaos for his
colony. The day that the grasshoppers
came, to take the ants' food like they did
every year, Flik accidentally made the
food all disappear. Enraged with that
"lack of productivity," Hopper, the
grasshopper leader, warned that he
would return at the end of the summer.
The strong-arming insect then demands
that the ants gather twice as much
food or they will face destruction. Flik
embarks on a trip to recruit fighters to
protect the colony in order to escape
calamity. He believes that he has
discovered his solution path as he
encounters a swarm of high-flying
circus insects.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

WHAT IS ACCOUNTABILITY VS
ACCOUNTABILITY? RESPONSIBILITY

Accountability is taking ACCOUNTABILITY
responsibility for your honesty
and ethics when you act towards A person or organization's
others. In other words, the person responsibility to account for its
who is responsible is the person operations, accept responsibility
who does the work. for them, and reveal the results
in a transparent manner is
They are in charge of the actions referred to as accountability.
and the results. In a larger sense,
accountability means that you're RESPONSIBILITY
willing to be judged on how well
you perform. When a person has a duty or
obligation to do or accomplish a
The person who is accountable given or created work that has a
decides how much responsibility consequence for failing to do so,
he or she should have for the they are referred to as being
situation. responsible.

ARE RESPONSIBILITY AND
ACCOUNTABILITY THE
SAME THING?

Not at all. Based on the
comparisons above, it should be
easy to see that they are not the
same. Responsibility and
accountability are different in
many situations.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

ACCOUNTABILITY IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

In every firm or organization in The client may ask about the project's
status, budget, or other details. These
construction industry, it is important to details should be gathered and
communicated with the client when
identify who is accountable and needed to establish confidence and
efficiency. Project management tools
responsible for a project. Project are useful in situations like this. The
project manager must explain why the
managers must know their figures are as they are.

responsibilities and be accountable for Also, keep in mind that the project
manager cannot be held personally
the project's success or failure. It used to responsible for the project. Because the
project manager relies heavily on the
be that project managers were held project team. Choosing the correct team
and grooming them for the work and
accountable for their job. Nowadays, project is crucial. At the same time, the
project manager must be accountable
project managers are forced to play it for the team's efforts and management.

safe and avoid risk. This is a bad concept This is one of the reasons why firms
throughout the world regularly train their
because most of humanity's achievement personnel in various technology and soft
skills. Teamwork, trust, and motivation
has come from taking calculated risks. are the three forces that can improve a
team's performance and thus results.
Using the correct tools is vital in project Assuring these qualities and developing
management, but so is accountability, the correct team can assist any
deadlines, etc. Informed judgments on corporation develop valuable human
accountability and responsibility should assets that can function as advocates
be made using project management for the company regardless of their role.
technologies as data sources.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE MOVIE "A BUG'S LIFE"

A Bug's life represents all of the
qualities that make for successful
leadership, and being accountable
is what is required.

When the grasshoppers realized
that there was no food offered,
Anna, the ant-queen in training,
took responsibility, despite the
fact that it had been Flik's
carelessness that had caused the
situation.

First Rule of As the leader, she didn't blame
Leadership: him. Flik, on the other hand, quickly
Everything is Your admitted that he had made a
mistake and said that he would go
Fault out and recruit other bugs to
protect the colony from
grasshoppers. No one forced Flik.
However, he felt accountable.

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INNOVATION

DEFINITION OF INNOVATION VS

INNOVATION INVENTION

Innovation might relate to anything An invention, according to the
new or to a modification made to Cambridge Dictionary, is "anything
an already existing product, never done before, or the process
concept, or area. Integrating new of generating something never
ideas leads to changes that had been made." Hence, by
improve a company's ability to definition it must be original. What
compete and meet its customers' it means to innovate is to make a
requirements. fresh discovery.

CULTIVATE Innovation is defined as "the
application of a revolutionary idea
INNOVATION INTO or approach." When you innovate,
we put a new product or
THE CONSTRUCTION technique onto the market, or we
modify old innovations to create
INDUSTRY something that is practically
useful.
Encourage the development of
sustainable strategies for
reducing the industry's
environmental effect.
It's time to start planning for
the cities of the future with
intelligent technology, new
building techniques, and
renewable energy sources.
A linked and monitored
worksite may improve
productivity, efficiency, and
the quality of construction
operations.

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INNOVATION

INNOVATION IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Since each construction project Other sectors, like automobiles,
is unique, construction have adopted the digital era
organisations must customise quickly, but construction has
their methods and resources to been lagging behind. Because it's
meet the needs of each project. time consuming, costly, and
It is important to note that requires extensive study, it's
every site is a working prototype difficult to get materials, and
that is always being changed. skilled workers are hard to come
Various construction sites need by. In addition, the lack of
frequent mobility of workers and cooperation and fragmentation
equipment. As a result, in the construction value chain
consultants may not be able to makes it more difficult for new
use previous knowledge ideas to emerge.
effectively because of the
weather or other A collaborative effort is
circumstances. required to enhance the various
processes that comprise the
construction industry. It will be
simpler to improve productivity
parameters and technology
adoption by encouraging
construction innovation among
all major parties in the
construction industry.

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INNOVATION

INNOVATION IN
CONSTRUCTION

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

In construction project management, taking Innovative people think outside of the box
risks is the only way to innovate and remain and come up with new ways of doing
one step ahead of the competition. In things that will improve productivity and
today's modern world, technology serves as communication with clients.
a channel for new ideas. The problem is that
it may be difficult to keep up with the latest Project managers who are afraid of
innovations, which frequently leaves change are more likely to see their firms
companies without the necessary stagnate. To get to the top of the
technologies or softwares. competition or become a leader in any
field, it is vital to take risks and take
Project management organisations may chances. Taking a chance demonstrates
implement innovative solutions and show self-assurance and opens the door to
their success to clients by learning the ins new possibilities.
and outs of industry software and making
better use of it. For example, companies To progress, we must be willing to take
may benefit from Resource and Workforce risks. When we do, we acquire valuable
Management Software by ensuring smooth lessons that help us grow as individuals
operations, optimising resource allocation, and as a company. It has the potential to
and avoiding costly and time-consuming open up potential approaches of business
uncertainties. and encourage us to broaden our
perspectives.
For project managers, cloud-based solutions
are becoming more important, since it
allows them to access information on the
go, no matter where they are or at any
moment. As a project manager, having up-
to-date information at your fingertips will
make all the difference in ensuring that the
project is completed on time.

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INNOVATION

INNOVATION IN THE
MOVIE "A BUG'S LIFE"

By intimidating the colony, Hopper Flik had the mindset of a leader
forces them to increase their who is always looking for ways to
offerings and shorten their improve things. Even though his
feeding times. At the same time, plan had failed, Flik remained
the colony's main goal is to gather optimistic and never gave up.
the foodstuffs as quickly as
possible while avoiding causing The only way to prevent failing in
any new difficulties. life is to be able to handle the
unavoidable challenges and
As a result, the colony rejected obstacles that will arise. Even if
Flik's invention out of concern that others have doubts about their
it would jeopardize their goal. Flik, ability or ideas, a leader must
on the other hand, aims to free remain self-assured and keep
the ant colony and offer new moving ahead to achieve their
ideas or innovations to the colony. objectives.

It was Flik's goal for the colony's
food gathering to become more
efficient and faster. Because of
this, he came up with the idea of
a harvester and other innovations
to aid the colony's survival.

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MOTIVATION

WHAT IS TYPES OF
MOTIVATION? MOTIVATION

Motivation is the process that initiates, EXTRINSIC MOTIVATIONS
guides, and maintains goal-oriented
behaviors. It is what motivates you to ·Extrinsic motivations are those that
take action, whether it is grabbing a arise from outside of the individual and
glass of water to quench your thirst or often involve rewards such as trophies,
reading a book to expand your money, social recognition, or praise.
knowledge.
INTRINSIC MOTIVATIONS
Motivation also involves the biological,
emotional, social, and cognitive forces Intrinsic motivations are those that
that activate behavior. The term arise from within the individual, such as
"motivation" is widely used in ordinary doing a complicated crossword puzzle
speech to express why someone does purely for the personal gratification of
something. It is the driving force behind solving a problem
human actions.

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MOTIVATION

MOTIVATION IN THE INITIATIVES
PROJECT THAT CAN MOTIVATE

MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEE

According to Peterson (2007), GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING
motivation can inspire, encourage,
and stimulate individuals and project When the team encounters a difficult
teams to achieve great situation, urge everyone to come up
accomplishments. Motivation can also with creative solutions together. In this
be used to develop teamwork and case, the project manager should
joint initiatives in order to achieve facilitates development of the solution.
common goals or objectives.
CELEBRATE SUCCESS
Besides, the large organizations with a
long track record of success set Celebrate Success: When your team
themselves apart from the other by achieves success, recognize their hard
focusing on the individual employee work. Among the recognitions that can
and the development of intrinsic be given are lunch, trophies, letters of
motivation (Peters & Waterman, appreciation and mentions at
1983). meetings.

Since construction employees are not ORGANIC TEAM
DEVELOPMENT
completely skilled, effective
Provide opportunities for employees to
management techniques must be work together on tasks, train, and learn
from, each other, which leads to
established in order to keep the productive relationships being formed
naturally. A truly effective team plays
workers productive. of each members strengths and
minimizes each individual’s weaknesses.
According to Hazeltine, (1976) by
understanding how the workers PAGE 11
motivated with their work is one key
to this end. A motivated employee will
give his or her all to accomplish the
work, and subsequently will bring
benefit to the company. Therefore, it
is the manager's responsibility to
create an environment that is able to
naturally motivate the employee.

MOTIVATION IN THE
MOVIE A BUG'S LIFE

Flik is the most influential character There are numerous occasions when a
who listens to everyone and person becomes upset and exhausted.
motivates. They needs the assistance of
someone who has the ability to
Together even the motivate them. In this movie, Dot was
smallest can achieve the able to improve Flik's spirits by
recalling encouragement that Flik had
greatest goals previously shown her.

Dot, the small princess and the You just have to give
blueberry's member. She believed in yourself some time. You're
herself that being small isn't such a
huge deal if we have the willpower still a seed
and confidence to achieve anything in
life

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Teamwork In "A Bug's Life", we can generally
grasp the way of how ant lives
What is teamwork?
as a colony, which directly
According to Montebello & Buzzotta translates to living as a team.
(1993), teamwork is the collaborative
effort of a group to achieve a We can also learn from the
common goal or to complete a task in animation film that teamwork
the most effective and efficient way. will get the job done faster and
It is a concept of where "a team" and
"work" combined together, and it can remove risk efficiently
creates a framework or tool for the through collaborative effort.
interdependent individuals to achieve
the shared goal. There are a lot of
examples in everyday life that shows
the concept of teamwork in their
corresponding place setting, such as
a family at home, a team of colleague
at the office and a team of football
players on the field.

Teamworking demonstrates that it is
necessary for a group of individuals
to rely on each other, and each must
bring something to the table, in order
so that the they can achieve their
aim as a team. Dysfunctional team or
teamwork may lead to failure, and it
can deviate from the prior motive of
teamworking.

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Teamwork

In "A Bug's Life", the ants worked Teamworking in
together for the 'bird project', Project Management

which is to scare away the Managing a project requires great
grasshoppers that leech the sense of responsibility for each team
effort of the ants. This project members. Project management is,
has shown that teamworking can especially in the construction field, a
enhance the work performance, tool or framework to make sure that
lessen the workload burden and the project is well-managed and each
tasks are according to plan. Team-
encourage creativity. working in project management has a
great impact in determining the rate
of success of the project. Team-
working in this context signifies the
value of good communication and
problem-solving as the construction
field is filled with risks and dispute.

Each team players, such as the
design team and the contractor, has
their own roles and responsibility in a
construction project. To have an out-
standing teamworking environment,
all team players have work together
with a success-driven mindset.

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Understanding the impact Importance
of good teamworking will
increases positive outcome of Teamwork
and success of the project
A clear importance of teamworking is
or task. achieving the shared goal on a timely
fashion. More importance of team-
Ways to improve work are such as:
teamworking
Problem-solving: due to the team's
Clarify team goals and each culture, each team member has a
member's roles and responsibilities. responsibility to contribute equally
and offer their unique perspective
Create feedback loops for on a problem to arrive at the best
learning and accountability. possible solution.
Relationship development: bond
Have a mutual consideration of between each team members will
others’ ideas, feelings, and develop over time and it will help
contributions to the team. avoid unnecessary conflict. Building
strong relationships between team
Practice positive and active members, their satisfaction with
communication and collaboration. each other will increase, hence
improving both teamwork and
performance.
Individual qualities: every team
member can offer their unique
knowledge and ability to help
improve the other team members.
Through teamwork, the sharing of
these qualities will allow team
members to be more productive.

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CONCLUSION

All of the aspects that had been discussed can lead to accountability
significant changes towards a construction's project
management. In order to deal with the current situation,
the government, industry, academics, and society all need
to work together in an efficient and effective manner. As
a result, the construction industry's competitiveness and
position in the national economy will be enhanced as a
result of the efforts of all parties involved.

Project management helps to plan and manage project innovation
processes well while providing effective management
during unexpected events. Project management helps to
maintain a better process by attempting to forecast
failures or difficulties that are likely to develop throughout
the project lifecycle.

"A Bug's Life" emphasizes the importance of being an motivation
accountable leader, always try to improve our teamwork
organization by innovations, supporting others by giving
motivations and working together to improve the
teamwork. It is a straight forward movie that can
understood by all generations and also can be use for
educational purpose such as movie analysis.

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