BA562 Conveyor Belt Project
Part 3
Part A
1. Which if any of the resources are over allocated?
Design, Development and Documentation.
2. Assume that the project is time constrained and try to resolve any over allocation problems by leveling within slack. What happens?
The design and documentation over allocated problem is solved. However, Development is still over allocated. (See Gantt chart 3.1)
3. What is the impact of leveling within slack on the sensitivity of the network? Include a Gantt chart with the schedule table after leveling within slack.
The sensitivity of the network is increased. The slacks are reduced which lead to a loss of flexibility. The probability of activities delaying the project is increased because the
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The reduction can reduce the cost and resource. Compromising the quality is also an option. If quality is sacrificed, it may be possible to reduce the time of an activity on the critical path. However, it is rarely acceptable or used.
Part B
Once you have obtained a schedule that meets the time and resource constraints, prepare a memo that addresses the following questions:
1. What changes did you make and why?
The end date of the project cannot be moved, so the project should be considered as a time constrain project. Two internal research teams are assigned to Development initially, but Development over allocation still exists. In the resource graph, we can see that the peak of demand in Development is 500%, which means we need to hire 1 more development team outside the company. The peak demand is consisted by 5 tasks: 1.2 “Hardware design”, 2.2.1 “Disk drivers”, 2.3 “Memory management”, 3.2 “Routine utilities” and 3.3 “Complex utilities”. Among these tasks, 3.2 “Routine utilities” has the shortest duration. Since the cost for outside development team is higher, we should hire it for as short duration as possible. Thus the external development team is assigned to the task 3.2 “Routine utilities”.
2. How long will the project take?
The project length remains 530 days and will be end on Feb. 2nd, 2012.
3. How did these changes affect the sensitivity of the network?
• A situation where a reduction in production will result in less overhead allocated to the respective product
3. What is the impact of leveling within slack on the sensitivity of the network?
Secondly, if multiple developers have the same skill set, there can be a buddy system established to ensure the buddy performs the task using extra time to avoid delay. Since the other developer is absent, the cost remains the same.
Gantt Chart & Network Diagram 17 8.1 Gantt Chart 17 8.2 Network Diagram Overall Structure 17 9. Most Likely case & Worse Cae Time Estimation 18 10. Compressing Schedule 18 Appendix 1.
You will also be required to understand the relationship between satisfactorily organising another person’s schedule and achieving team goals. This will require that the information you relay is accurate and in the format the organisation requires. Accordingly that the responsibility involved in making arrangements for other members of staff is understood.
1.2 Identify the tasks and resources required for the activity, including any operational constraints that apply
One of the main concerns during the meeting was the impact of cost and time constraints on networking techniques and project schedules. Under the ideal situation, the project start and end dates are fixed. Adding resources is not usually feasible as it increases cost. There should be a balance between time and cost constraints as it avoids wasting of resources. Also most people are willing to accept that costs could exceed expectations, and might even take a perverse delight in recounting past examples, the same is not true for time constraints. This is probably due to the fact that cost over runs are resolved in-house, while schedule issues are open and visible to the customer. A company has a lot of useful, desirable work that could be done, but has limited and finite resources available with which to do that work. Choices have to be made about which work to do and how to allocate resources. This leads to constraints especially, the time constraint and the cost constraint. Time, in project management, is analyzed down to its smallest detail. Each and every component of the project is analyzed with respect to the time required for completion. After completion of this analysis these components are broken down even further into the time required to do each task.
Deal with a single party only. Since this project have to complete in a short period, it could be more efficient if only one party involve in this project. The project that only involves a single party can avoid communication problems between parties and the overruns of the project.
In field of project management, there are a plethora of mechanisms under perpetual reevaluation. One specific segmentation of project management under such scrutiny pertains to cost duration, which is the time and monetary costs of completing individual tasks within the project’s critical path (IBM Knowledge Center, 2016). The process of monitoring and evaluating the time and financial impacts of each task is referred to as cost duration analysis (IBM Knowledge Center, 2016). A chief concern of cost duration analysis is identifying tasks within the project’s critical path which can reduce project duration (PMI, 2013). A common approach to reducing a project’s duration is task “crashing” (PMI, p.181). According to The Project Management Institute (2013) crashing refers to the process of methodical determining the financial value of increasing a critical path task’s resources in order to decrease project duration (p.181).
Placing the events in a Gantt chart will help clarify and organize the events, the order in which they will occur, as well as any preceding activities that must be accomplished. Table 5 shows the project 's normal conditions, their timeframes and associated costs. As noted, normal conditions require 50 weeks to complete and therefore, cannot be used. Table 6 is a similar chart showing the project under ultimate crash conditions. As mentioned earlier, the project can be accomplished in as little as 42 weeks if every activity is crashed. This scenario is not desired however, because the project 's budget then approaches $5 million in associated costs, over 50% beyond the original allotted expenditure.
I have most of my work diarised on outlook ensuring that I am meeting objectives, deadlines and service level agreements. I set myself time limits of when to complete tasks by to ensure prompt and effective delivery of service.
This “inspect-and-adapt” technique reduces the development cost and release time for the project is kept
4. I would allow employees to make decision on schedule and budgets that concerns them as a group.
A key activity in project management is assessing project constraints. A project has three limitations: scope, budget and schedule. These limitations are project constraints because they are sensitive to change and have an impact on project risk. Risk is exposure to uncertain outcomes. Project constraints are mutually exclusive. If one constraint changes it affects the others and adjustments may be required to compensate and manage risks. For example, a delay in the schedule can increase the risk that the project will not finish on time. Time is money and delays have a negative impact on the budget. To