You are the project manager on a project to construct a flyover in
the city to ease traffic congestion. Flyover construction should cause minimum
disruption to the traffic until it is complete. Ensuring safety of the
commuters and workers at the site is the responsibility of your company. The
date of completion of the project is six months from now. This date cannot be
extended because of an upcoming international summit in the city.

To achieve theoverall project time lines, the following
milestones must be achieved:

·
Identifying a temporary alternate route and making
it ready for the commuters—within two weeks of the project start

·
Getting a final approval for the design
and layout of the flyover, including a structural analysis—within four weeks of
the project start

·
Completing all construction activities by the end
of the fifth month

·
Cleaning up the construction infrastructure and
finishing and painting the flyover by the end of five months and two weeks

·
Opening the flyover for a trial in the third week
of the sixth month and gathering feedback

·
Placing traffic signs—entry and exit—in the fourth
week of the sixth month

·

You have to acquire resources
for the project. What type of resources will you require to successfully
execute the project?

Out of the factors
that influence decisions on acquiring human resources, which factors do you
consider to be the most decisive in the choice of human resources for this
project?

Question 1

1.

A customer is unhappy with the performance thus far on a project. The customer states that, unless scope changes are made at the
contractor%u2019s expense, the contractor would be removed from the customer%u2019s preferred bidders list for future contracts. The contractor should.

Answer

Question 2

1.

Project sponsors within the contractor%u2019s company have the authority to change the scope of an external customer%u2019s project as they
see fit.

Answer

Question 3

1.

Generally speaking, work packages:

Answer

Question 4

1.

Consider the WBS shown below:
1.00.00
1.1.0
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.2.2
If the total program costs $100,000 and 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 are each $20 K, then the cost of 1.1.0 is:

Answer

Question 5

1.

A project manager desires a work breakdown structure that goes through 6 levels of detail. Level 3 through level 6 would most likely be
prepared by:

Answer

Question 6

1.

All work packages in a project:

Answer

Question 7

1.

Which of the following is normally not addressed in a change control board meeting to approve a scope change?

Answer

Question 8

1.

If the customer%u2019s SOW contains words such as nearly or approximately, then:

Answer

Question 9

1.

Generally speaking, the lowest level in the WBS is referred to as:

Answer

Question 10

1.

Which of the following would be the first item to be discussed in the initial kickoff meeting for a project?

Answer

Essay question

Identify the seven (7) characteristics of a project.

Maurice Micklewhite has decided to replant his garden. Show him what the cost is of making an erroneous decision at various stages of the
project, starting with conceptual design and ending with the ongoing maintenance of the garden.

Identify and describe the key factor(s) in effective project control.

18.

DEF A/C Remodelers has contracted to reconfigure the interior of a large corporate A/C. The project manager has determined that there are 11 steps to the
process. In consultation with the project foreman he has determined the sequence and precedent for the 11 events, labeled A – K, and has estimated the
optimistic, expected, and pessimistic job times, labeled a, m, and b, respectively. These times, in days, and precedence are given in the table below.

ACTIVITY

a

m

b

Immediate Predecessors

A

3

6

8

B

2

4

4

C

1

2

3

D

6

7

8

C,

E

2

4

6

B,

D

F

6

10

14

A,

E

G

1

2

4

A,

E

H

3

6

9

F,

I

10

11

12

G,

J

14

16

20

C,

K

2

8

10

H,

I

a.

What is the critical path for the installation of the interior?

b.

What is the expected completion time, in working days, for the project?

c.

What is the probability of finishing the project in 40 working days or less?

d.

What is the probability of the job taking more than 50 working days?

The western Company has 3 branch plants with excess production capacity. The company has a new product ready to begin production, and all 3 plants have this
capability, so some of the excess capacity can be used in this way. The product can be made int 3 sizes (large, medium, small)that yield a net unit profit of
$420, $360, $300 respectively. Plants 1, 2, 3 have the excess capacity to produce 750, 900, 450 units per day of this product, regardless of the size or
combination of sizes involved. The amount of available in-porcess storage space also impose a limitation on the production rates of the new product. Plants
1,2,3 have 13,000, 12,000 and 5,000 square feet of in-process storage space available for a day’s produciont. Each unit of the large, medium and small sizes
produced per day requires 20, 15, 12 square feet. Sales forcast indicate that if available, 900, 1200 and 750 units of the large, medium, and small sizes would
be sold per day. At each plant, some employees will need to be laid off unless most of the plant’s excess production capacity can be used to produce the new
product. To avoid layoff, managment has decided that the plants should use teh same percentage of there excess capacity to produce the new product.

1. Formulate a linear programing model for this problem by:

a)Listing and labeling all of the decision variables.

b)Creating an objective function for the model

c) List all of the contstraints for this model

Complete model not just an excel sheet.

2. Solve the model using Excel solver. Give the value for each decision variable and the objective function.

You have just been hired to manage a new project that will involve not only the installation of a new company-wide computer system, but also the
implementation of new processes. As project manager, you must create a project plan and a change management plan. Where do you begin? What should be your first
task and why?

Who should be part of the planning process? What problems could arise due to the changes? How will you measure the success of the change management plan?

Assume you have just been assigned to a project risk team of five members. Because this is the first time your organization has formally set up a risk team for
a project, it is hoped that your team will develop a process that can be used on all future projects. Your first team meeting is next Monday morning. Each team
member has been asked to prepare for the meeting by developing, in as much detail as possible, an outline that describes how you believe the team should
proceed in handling project risks. Each team member will hand out their proposed outline at the beginning of the meeting. Your outline should include but not
be limited to the following information:

Team objectives

Process for handling risk events

Team activities

Team outputs

3. (TCO F) The PMI Code of Ethics is made up of four areas: responsibility, honesty, respect, and fairness. Discuss the area of respect and what
it means for you, the project manager.

TCO D) As a project manager, dealing with conflict is part of the job. There are many sources of conflict; one source that is often overlooked is the manager.
Based on the Week 4 reading and lecture, what major ways do people deal with conflict? Share a personal experience of conflict and how you dealt with the
situation.

2. (TCO E) In order to have a high-performance team you must first recognize the qualities of a high-performance team. Describe at least five qualities
of a high-performance team and then what can be done to develop those qualities in a team.

write a description of an effective leader. List and explain five qualities that you believe are found in effective leaders

The Solomon Law Firm produces many legal documents that must be typed for clients and

the firm. Requests average 8 pages of documents per hour, and they arrive according to

a Poisson distribution.

The secretary can type 10 pages per hour on average according to an exponential

distribution.

a) What is the average capacity utilization of the secretary?

b) What is the probability that more than 4 pages are waiting or being typed?

c) What is the average number of pages waiting to be typed?

Describe the importance of a project kick-off meeting, and what needs to be reviewed in that meeting. Describe a project kick off meeting you have attended or
hosted, and give suggestions on how to improve it in the future. If uses sources please provide the link where you are getting the data.

QUESTION:

Your organisation is bidding for a construction project, which consists of building a commercial complex in the heart of the city. Your organisation has worked on a similar project that was one-third the size of this one but completed it with a cost overrun of 20%. As a project manager, you have already prepared the scope statement and the WBS and are now preparing cost estimates for the construction project. Which cost estimation technique would you use for the construction project? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of your chosen technique in the context of the construction project.

500 WORDS

NOTE:

In working out your responses to the Discussion Question, you should choose examples from your own experience or find appropriate cases on the Web that you can discuss. Credit will be given for references you make to relevant examples from real companies.

Please make sure that you cite and reference all your outside sources properly, as per the Harvard Referencing System.

Have two short essays with questions to answer at the end of each essay

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Rachel, the project manager of a large information systems project, arrives at her office early to get caught up with work before her co-workers and project team arrive. However, as she enters the office she meets Neil, one of her fellow project managers, who also wants to get an early start on the day. Neil has just completed a project overseas. They spend 10 minutes socializing and catching up on personal news.
It takes Rachel 10 minutes to get to her office and settle in. She then checks her voice mail and turns on her computer. She was at her client’s site the day before until 7:30 p.m. and has not checked her e-mail or voice mail since 3:30 p.m. the previous day. There are 7 phone messages, 16 e-mails, and 4 notes left on her desk. She spends 15 minutes reviewing her schedule and “to do” lists for the day before responding to messages that require immediate attention.
Rachel spends the next 25 minutes going over project reports and preparing for the weekly status meeting. Her boss, who just arrived at the office, interrupts her. They spend 20 minutes discussing the project. He shares a rumor that a team member is using stimulants on the job. She tells him that she has not seen anything suspicious but will keep an eye on the team member.
The 9:00 a.m. project status meeting starts 15 minutes late because two of the team members have to finish a job for a client. Several people go to the cafeteria to get coffee and doughnuts while others discuss last night’s baseball game. The team members arrive, and the remaining 45 minutes of the progress review meeting surface project issues that have to be addressed and assigned for action.
After the meeting Rachel goes down the hallway to meet with Victoria, another IS project manager. They spend 30 minutes reviewing project assignments since the two of them share personnel. Victoria’s project is behind schedule and in need of help. They broker a deal that should get Victoria’s project back on track.
She returns to her…

Attachments:

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Kristen and Marlon own K&M, a company that produces cable assemblies. Business has been good so Kristen and Marlon have decided to expand their product
line to include a new cable product, which will be manufactured in the current facility. They have decided to use a project management approach to bring the
new product on line, and have identified 11 activities and their precedence relationships:

Activity description Predecessor A M B Crash time Normal cost Crash Cost

A Develop product specs None 2 4 6 3 8000 11000

B Design manufacturing process A 3 6 9 5 30000 35000

C source/purchase materials A 2 3 4 2 6000 6000

D Source and purchase equipment B 4 6 8 4 24000 28000

E Receive equipment D 8 15 16 12 60000 72000

F Receive materials C 2 5 8 4 5000 6500

G Pilot production run E, F 2 2 2 2 6000 6000

H Evaluate product design G 1 2 3 2 4000 4000

I Evaluate process performance G 2 3 4 2 4000 5000

J Write documentation report H, I 2 4 6 2 4000 6400

K Transition to manufacturing J 2 2 2 2 5000 5000

1. Construct a network diagram

2. Calculate the expected time and variance for each of the project activities

3. Calculate the ES, EF, LS and LF times

4. Find the critical path for this project

5. Determine which activities have slack time and how much it is for each one

6. Determine the expected completion time for the project

7. Kristen and Marlon want to know the probability of completing the project in (i) 38;

and, (ii) 42 weeks

8. If Kristen and Marlon want to finish their project in 36 weeks, how should they

proceed?

What is the difference between cost and quantity information?

. (TCO F) Value management (VM) is the application of value methodologies with the purpose of improving organizational effectiveness. Value
management is made up of five subprocesses: sensemaking, ideation, elaboration, choice, and mastery. In your own words, explain what mastery is and how it
is

Why would a project manager want to collect both cost and quantity?

Silver Fiddle Construction Case You are the president of Silver Fiddle Construction (SFC), which specializes in building high?quality, customized homes in the
Grand Junction, Colorado, area. You have just been hired by the Czopeks to build their dream home. You operate as a general contractor and employ only a
part?time bookkeeper. You subcontract work to local trade professionals. Housing construction in Grand Junction is booming. You are tentatively scheduled to
complete 11 houses this year. You have promised the Czopeks that the final costs will range from $450,000 to $500,000 and that it will take five months to
complete the house once groundbreaking has begun. The Czopeks are willing to have the project delayed in order to save costs. You have just finished a
preliminary scope statement for the project (see below). You are now brainstorming potential risks associated with the project. Answer the following questions:
1) Create teh BS for this project, 2) Create two work packages for two different items in the WBS

Week 5 Hand-in Assignment
You are the project manager for the launch of a new product, Mint Cake, at Bakes Confectionaries (BC). The WBS, schedule, and budget for this project are ready. The budget cannot be finalised unless you have the risk responses and related actions planned and cost requirements identified. You understand that visualising the risks, registering them, and being ready with responses always enhance the chances of success. This involves developing a realistic risk register.

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Week 5 Hand-in Assignment
You are the project manager for the launch of a new product, Mint Cake, at Bakes Confectionaries (BC). The WBS, schedule, and budget for this project are ready. The budget cannot be finalised unless you have the risk responses and related actions planned and cost requirements identified. You understand that visualising the risks, registering them, and being ready with responses always enhance the chances of success. This involves developing a realistic risk register. The time required to launch Mint Cake is one of the most important objectives of the project and, therefore, you need to analyze the impact of prioritising the risks on this objective. The risks for the project are as follows:
Risk No.
Risk Description
R1
A new name will be required if legal permission for Mint Cake is not obtained.
R2
The pastry cook may not be available to make the Mint Cake; hence, a new cook needs to be recruited.
R3
Regulations governing the manufacture and sale of confectionary foods may be changed by the government.
R4
Raw material needed for Mint Cake is not available on time in the required quantity and quality.
R5
Market research may take longer time to complete than planned because the time to reach the prospects that need to be interviewed is longer than anticipated. This, in turn, may delay the launch of the Mint Cake.
R6
The project manager for the Mint Cake project may be transferred to another project of Bakes Confectionaries. Hence, there will be a need to get a new project manager.
R7
The in-house tasting expert may not be available on the scheduled date to provide inputs, which would cause delays in the schedule for the launch of the Mint Cake.
R8
The external tasting expert may not be available on the scheduled date to provide inputs, thereby causing delays in the schedule of the launch of Mint Cake.
The following table shows the rise in cost due to occurrence of risks related to the schedule:
Risk
Probability of…

Attachments:

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Question 1

1.

A customer is unhappy with the performance thus far on a project. The customer states that, unless scope changes are made at the
contractor%u2019s expense, the contractor would be removed from the customer%u2019s preferred bidders list for future contracts. The contractor should.

Answer

Question 2

1.

Project sponsors within the contractor%u2019s company have the authority to change the scope of an external customer%u2019s project as they
see fit.

Answer

Question 3

1.

Generally speaking, work packages:

Answer

Question 4

1.

Consider the WBS shown below:
1.00.00
1.1.0
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.2.2
If the total program costs $100,000 and 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 are each $20 K, then the cost of 1.1.0 is:

Answer

Question 5

1.

A project manager desires a work breakdown structure that goes through 6 levels of detail. Level 3 through level 6 would most likely be
prepared by:

Answer

Question 6

1.

All work packages in a project:

Answer

Question 7

1.

Which of the following is normally not addressed in a change control board meeting to approve a scope change?

Answer

Question 8

1.

If the customer%u2019s SOW contains words such as nearly or approximately, then:

Answer

Question 9

1.

Generally speaking, the lowest level in the WBS is referred to as:

Answer

Question 10

1.

Which of the following would be the first item to be discussed in the initial kickoff meeting for a project?

Answer

Essay question

Identify the seven (7) characteristics of a project.

Maurice Micklewhite has decided to replant his garden. Show him what the cost is of making an erroneous decision at various stages of the
project, starting with conceptual design and ending with the ongoing maintenance of the garden.

Identify and describe the key factor(s) in effective project control.

18.

DEF A/C Remodelers has contracted to reconfigure the interior of a large corporate A/C. The project manager has determined that there are 11 steps to the
process. In consultation with the project foreman he has determined the sequence and precedent for the 11 events, labeled A – K, and has estimated the
optimistic, expected, and pessimistic job times, labeled a, m, and b, respectively. These times, in days, and precedence are given in the table below.

ACTIVITY

a

m

b

Immediate Predecessors

A

3

6

8

B

2

4

4

C

1

2

3

D

6

7

8

C,

E

2

4

6

B,

D

F

6

10

14

A,

E

G

1

2

4

A,

E

H

3

6

9

F,

I

10

11

12

G,

J

14

16

20

C,

K

2

8

10

H,

I

a.

What is the critical path for the installation of the interior?

b.

What is the expected completion time, in working days, for the project?

c.

What is the probability of finishing the project in 40 working days or less?

d.

What is the probability of the job taking more than 50 working days?

The western Company has 3 branch plants with excess production capacity. The company has a new product ready to begin production, and all 3 plants have this
capability, so some of the excess capacity can be used in this way. The product can be made int 3 sizes (large, medium, small)that yield a net unit profit of
$420, $360, $300 respectively. Plants 1, 2, 3 have the excess capacity to produce 750, 900, 450 units per day of this product, regardless of the size or
combination of sizes involved. The amount of available in-porcess storage space also impose a limitation on the production rates of the new product. Plants
1,2,3 have 13,000, 12,000 and 5,000 square feet of in-process storage space available for a day’s produciont. Each unit of the large, medium and small sizes
produced per day requires 20, 15, 12 square feet. Sales forcast indicate that if available, 900, 1200 and 750 units of the large, medium, and small sizes would
be sold per day. At each plant, some employees will need to be laid off unless most of the plant’s excess production capacity can be used to produce the new
product. To avoid layoff, managment has decided that the plants should use teh same percentage of there excess capacity to produce the new product.

1. Formulate a linear programing model for this problem by:

a)Listing and labeling all of the decision variables.

b)Creating an objective function for the model

c) List all of the contstraints for this model

Complete model not just an excel sheet.

2. Solve the model using Excel solver. Give the value for each decision variable and the objective function.