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Conveyor Belt Project,
Part 2 1. When is the project estimated to be completed? How long will the project take? The project is set to kick-off on January 4, 2010. With a duration
of 530 days, the conveyor belt is estimated to be completed on February 27, 2012.
2. What is the critical path(s) for the project?
It's important to recognize the critical paths in project management. The longest path comprising a set of tasks that must be finished to prevent project delay is called a critical path (Ray, 2018). Operating systems, architectural choices, serial I/O drivers, hardware specifications, hardware design, hardware documentation, and the initial phase of integration make up the conveyor belt project's critical paths.
3. Which activity has the greatest amount of slack? The length of time that a task can be delayed without having any impact on when the project will eventually be finished is known as the slack, also known as project float. Essentially, the project manager uses slack to arrange specific scheduling of tasks and make the best choices for the project's success (Rouse, 2015). The documentation for utilities has the most slacks
4. How sensitive is this network? Since the project only has one vital path, the network is not particularly sensitive. The longer a project is underway, the more sensitive multiple critical paths projects become. The network is sensitive, thus it's important to make sure the project's scope is supported. The ideal outcome of allowing project scope is a potential project delay or eventual project failure.
5. Identify two sensible milestones and explain your choices. The System Hard/Software Test and the First Phase of Integration are two relevant or sensible milestones. The Integration First Phase was created because it requires the completion of seven activities before it can begin. One of the last significant activities that must be completed before the project can go into the final stages of completion is the System Hard/Software Test.
6. Compare and describe the advantages/disadvantages of displaying the schedule as a network versus a Gantt chart.
NETWOR K DIAGRAM
Advantages
Disadvantage
• Reveals the logical relationships happening between the many activities that are taking place during a project. • Gives the PM the ability to sequentially view how the various activities of the project can relate to each other as it moves towards completion. • Gives the PM an overview of how the • Problematic in being able to
predict the duration of each task. • It does not present the project’s start or end dates.
project utilizes resources for a
specified period of time, which can allow the PM the ability to perform resource leveling as needed.
GANTT CHART
• illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements
and summary elements of a project. • common technique for representing phases and activities of a certain project, thus they are understood by a wide audience. • provide an excellent presentation tool for
illustrating groups of milestones and demonstrating
individual resources scheduled to time. • used in status reporting to show how much of the plan has been completed by displaying the progress of an activity by representing it in bars (These bars can be linked or unlinked as preferred to by a user)
• Is not effective when trying to address dependencies between tasks, however you can add constraints to the chart which then are shown as vertical lines. • Problematic when trying to show two sets of dates, such as when trying to use either the earliest or latest start date techniques. • It is hard trying to show the critical path and slack without adding any kind
of notation to the chart. • The chart must be redrawn when changes are made to the schedule. • Not able to show multiple scheduling scenarios
in one chart. • Difficult to illustrate how resources are assigned. • It does not identify the elements of the WBS that pose the greatest risk to fail or be delayed
The following is a schedule table reporting ES, LS, EF, LF, and slack for each activity
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Rouse, M. (2015). float (project float, slack). TechTarget.Retrieved From: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/float-project-float-slack