Project Management: Conveyor Belt Project

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The majority of the work is already complete.  I just can’t get the estimated project duration to equal 530 days as indicated in the assignment.  The gantt chart needs to be corrected so that the critical path will be correct on the network diagram.

  

Conveyor Belt Project Assignment

· Enter the first task as “Conveyor Belt Project” and then, enter all the project tasks given in Table A2.11. Indent all project tasks except the first task “Conveyor Belt Project”

· Set the project start date as given

· Set the holidays as given

· Enter the activity time estimates

Use your file from Part 1 and the information provided below to complete this exercise

1. Each work package will represent an activity

2. The project begins January 4, 2010

3. The following holidays are observed: January 1, Memorial Day (last Monday in May), July 4th, Labor Day (first Monday in September), Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November), December 25th and December 26th

4. If a holiday falls on a Saturday then Friday will be given as an extra day off, and if it falls on a Sunday, then Monday will be given as a day off

5. The project teams work eight hour days, Monday through Friday

1. When is the project estimated to be completed? How long will the project take?

2. What is the critical path(s) for the project?

3. Which activity has the greatest amount of slack?

Table A2.11 (Conveyor Belt Project Schedule)

Activity

Description Resource Duration (days) Preceding Activity

1 architectural decisions Design 25 –

2 hardware Development, 50 1

Specifications Design

3 Kernel Design 20 1

specifications

4 Utilities Development, 15 1

Specifications Design

5 Hardware Design, 70 2

design Development

6 Disk drivers Assembly, 100 3

Development

7 Memory Development 90 3

management

8 Operating system Design, 25 3

Documentation Documentation

9 Routine utilities Development 60 4

10 Complex utilities Development 80 4

11 Utilities Documentation, 20 4

Documentation Design

12 Hardware Documentation, 30 5

Documentation Design

13 Integration Assembly, 50 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

First phase Development

14 Prototypes Assembly, 80 13

Development

15 Serial Development 130 13

I/O drivers

16 System Assembly 25 14, 15

Hard/software test

17 Order Purchasing 5 16

Circuit boards

18 Network Development 90 16

interface

19 Shell Development 60 16

20 Project Documentation, 50 16

Documentation Development

21 Assemble Assembly, 30 17F-S, lag 50 days

preproduction Development

models

22 Integrated Assembly, 60 18, 19, 20, 21

Acceptance Development

testing

Include the following:

1. Gantt chart

2. network diagram highlighting the critical path

3. schedule table reporting: ES, LS, EF, LF, and slack for each activity

Hint: The project should be completed in 530 days.