Challenge

There are a lot of procedures and activities to follow for a tower roll out project. Generally, Network operators request to the client group to build a new tower, or for a tower that can be shared by multiple operators to optimize the infrastructure costs. The operators can itself decide what type of service they need or the operator will request to the client group to take a decision.

If the operator decision is to build a new tower (BTS), then a set of activities need to be completed prior to the installation of a new tower. There are near 159 activity related to a tower roll out project. A team is assigned for each activity. There are some relationships of the preceding tasks to the succeeding tasks. Some tasks may have multiple preceding tasks and multiple succeeding tasks. So that the predecessor task must be finished before successor task. A team is assigned for each activity. So the director/in charge of a particular project may not be knowing about the task status unless and until they are informing to him/her either through mail or verbal communication. The major challenge for the project manager is completing the site rollout project on time, within the budget and scope. In addition to various technical and non-technical related issues that usually encounter the execution of the project and lead to delays in completion, there are factors related to the way the project is managed which affects the performance of the project and might directly or indirectly contribute to the underperformance and delays of delivering the site on time. The major factors recognized are:

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