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Independent business simulation

Cross-Functional Branch Launch

Eleven teams share one launch date, but no shared view shows ownership, dependencies, and risks.

Organization
Lakemont Building Supply (fictional)
Project type
Project and implementation management
My role
Project lead
Timeline assumption
Sixteen weeks to launch, assumed
These are simulations for a fictional company. No outcome shown here is presented as an achieved result. Impact appears as something I would propose to measure.

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01

Business context

Lakemont is opening a fourth branch with an attached commercial interiors service the company has not offered before. The launch touches leadership, sales, operations, purchasing, marketing, warehouse, customer service, vendors, technology, finance, and facilities.

02

The challenge

Eleven teams share one launch date. Each has its own plan. Nobody has a shared view of what depends on what, who owns each piece, which risks are live, or what conditions actually have to be true before the branch can open. Status arrives as eleven separate updates in different formats, and dependencies surface as surprises.

03

My assignment

Build the operating structure for the launch: scope, ownership, dependencies, risks, and communication.

04

Discovery questions

  • What does launch actually mean, and what is explicitly out of scope for version one?
  • Which teams cannot start until another team finishes, and does that team know?
  • Which commitment is most likely to slip, and who is watching it?
  • Which decisions need leadership and which should be made at the team level?
  • What is the fallback if the interiors service is not ready but the branch is?
  • How will status be reported so eleven updates become one picture?

05

Stakeholders

GroupWhat they need
Branch leadershipA clear picture of status and what needs a decision
Functional teamsTo know what is expected of them and when
Purchasing and vendorsLead time visibility early enough to act
SalesConfidence about what can be sold and when
FinanceSpend visibility against the launch budget

06

Root cause

  • No single owner for cross team dependencies, so they live in nobody's plan.
  • Success criteria not defined, so being done is a matter of opinion.
  • Status reported in inconsistent formats, so comparison is impossible.
  • Risks tracked informally, so mitigation starts only after impact.
  • A new service line introduced alongside a new location, doubling the unknowns.

07

Tradeoffs

TradeoffWhat it costs
Standardize status reportingExtra reporting overhead for eleven teams
Split the interiors service into a later phaseSlower revenue from the new offering, lower launch risk
Assign a single dependency ownerOne person carries coordination load that was previously diffuse

08

Design principles

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09

The proposed solution

  • Project charter with scope and explicit exclusions
  • Stakeholder map and responsibility matrix
  • Work breakdown structure and milestone schedule
  • Dependency tracker with owners and due dates
  • Risk register with mitigation owners
  • Weekly status format and executive update
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Implementation considerations

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What I would measure

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Reflection

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