Activity A (start) B C E F (end) (weeks) 2 2 4 1 2 Activity Precedes B, C E F F Suppose that Rafay is only given 6 weeks (instead of 8) to complete the project. By how many weeks should each activity be crashed in order to meet the deadline? Assume that you can crash an activity down to 0 weeks duration. A Cost/Week $380 $120 $200 $150 $420 Each Activity Should be Reduced BY (weeks) week(s)
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- By using Bar chart planning method, find the following: - Total duration for the project activities shown below - The project completion date (assume the start date is 1/3/2012 Activity A CDEFGHI J Duration 85 2846 7 45 6 (days) Following Activity C,D EFGHIJJ * If the project shown above had a delay of (4 days after (13working days), what would its new delivery date be? B BB/U pe Activity A B D 11. A project has the activity duration and cost information indicated in the table where all times are in weeks. There is a penalty of $4,000 per week for every week the project exceeds 37 weeks. What is the lowest total cost for completing this project? Predecessor Time 18 11 A A B C E D Normal A H 12 15 3 19 Asbe de ABC' AMBBC RACE AB 7 8 12 6 Normal Cost Crash Time Crash Cost $22,000 $32,000 $62,000 $18,000 $35,000 $8,000 $23,000 $32,000 $56,000 $12,000 5 $18,000 19 $22,000 $9,000 $15,000 $5,000 $13,000 $20,000 $45,000 2 5 4Chuck’s Custom Boats (CCB) builds luxury yachts to customer order. CCB has landed a contract with a wealthy customer. Relevant data are shown in the table below. The complication is that the customer wants delivery in 32 weeks or he will impose a penalty of $375 for each week his yacht is late. Activity Immediate Predecessor Normal Time (NT) Weeks Crashing Cost 1st Week 2nd Week A ― 9 $410 $415 B A 7 125 -- C A 5 45 45 D B 4 300 350 E C 6 50 -- F D, E 5 200 225 G F 8 -- -- H F 7 85 90 I G 6 90 -- Construct a network diagram for the project Indicate the critical path when normal activity times are used. Develop a crashing schedule. Note: No activity can be crashed more than two weeks. Show breakdown of work
- 8 EARNED VALUE ANALYSIS The following project is reported to be at the end of its 8 week. Find the cost and schedule variances. Also find the CPI, SPI, CSI, ETC and EAC for the project. Find the condition of the project at the this reporting period. PV AC Budget ($) Duration Actual Cost % D-8 Activity Predecessor (s) (week) ($) Complete 300 400 A 3 100 A3 В 4 200 180 100 B:4 C 7 250 300 90 A 8 600 400 50 400 200 В 40 150 180 F В 4 100 G C 4 100 200 40 500 H D, E 2 300 F, G 3 J H, I 1 100 ㅇ CO 프 (-)blä 8 Q2/ By using PERT Method, Solve the ? following Q2/ For the project described in table below, assume that the activity durations are approximately normally distributed. Determine the probability to complete this project in (15 weeks). Activity Path m b a A (1,2) 1 2 В (2,3) 2 4 C (2,4) 1 3 D (4,5) 2 5 8 E (1,5) 2 4 F (5,6) 1 2 Note that the activity (3,4) is a dummy activity. 3. 3.You are the project manager of the software installationproject in Table 7.12. You would like to find the minimum-costschedule for your project. There is a $1,000-per-week penaltyfor each week the project is delayed beyond week 25. In addi-tion, your project team determined that indirect project costsare $2,500 per week.a. What would be your target completion week?b. How much would you save in total project costs with yourschedule?
- The following is a table of activities associated with a project at Rafay Ishfaq's software firm in Chicago, their durations, what activition nach must precede and the orash cost to reduce duration per week Crash Cos/Week ITI Duration (weeks) Activity A (start) Precedes B, C $370 B. 2. $120 $240 4. F (end) $140 $400 Suppose that Rafay is only given 8 weeks (instead of 10) to complete the project By how many weeks should each activity be crashed in order to meet the deadline? Assume that you can crash an activity down to 0 weeks duration. Each Activity Each Activity Should be Reduced Activity BY (weeks) week(s) week(s) woek(s) wook(s) week(s) What is the total crashing cost? $ (Enter your response as a whole number)ces Mailings Po V ates) EE E AL Review View Tell me $ Text Predictions: On 4 BIU 1. Evergreen Company wants to construct a new office building. The company has contracted a construction management contractor for this project. Given below are the details of a construction project. ✓ ✓ ✓ % Activity A 5 B C D ¶ E F — a) Construct the project network (AON) diagram for Evergreen Company and list all possible activity paths and their duration. b) Determine Evergreen Company's critical path(s). What is the duration of project competition? c) Determine the ES, EF, LS, LF, and floats for each activity. d) Construct a Gantt chart for Evergreen Company's project. AaBbCcDdEe Normal A STR 6 Predecessor(s) Duration (days) 1 2 A A B B, C E AaBbCcDdEe No Spacing !!! 3 2 1 1 & 7 E Do AaBbCcL AaBbCcDd AaBb AaBbCeDdE Heading 1. Heading 2 Title Subtitle * 00 8 I 9 Focus ( ) 0 Comm > St FRoger Ginde is developing a program in supply chain management certification for managers. Ginde has listed a number of activities that must be completed before a training program of this nature could be conducted. The activities, immediate predecessors, and times appear in the accompanying table: Immediate Predecessor(s) Activity ABCDEFG This exercise contains only parts b, c, and d. b) The critical activities for the leadership training program development project are B A, D C E, F Time (days) 4 5 3 10 4 6 10
- Given the data for a project in table Q3, using the following assumptions: 1. 8 hours as working day 2. The company will work all days. 3. Maximum number of workers available per day is 6 4. Activities cannot be break down 5. Budget will distributed equally per day, except for activities (B, H and L), the payment will be after two days of working: means that the first payment will be at the end of day2, then day four and so on. 6. They estimate that the work will starts on the first of November 2017 Develop a report containing the followings: Date of finish BAD O GYEK 1. 2. Early start and Slack time for each activity 3. Resource histogram 4. Cumulative Budget baseline curve 5. Interpret the final report co Table Q3 Duration (Hrs) No of Workers Budget Activity predecessor A None 48 12000 64 32000 C 16 10000 32 4. 12000 B,C 32 8000 B,C 16 6000 G B,C 16 4 10000 H. 64 16000 3. 16 4000 32 1 12000 K 32 3 16000 H. 48 1 12000 Total Budget of RM150000What is the minimum cost of crashing the following project that Roger Solano manages at Slippery Rock University by 4 days? Normal Crash Time Activity Time (days) (days) AB А C D E 67555 5 BCD w 55 с 4 2 Activity A E 3 Normal Cost $800 $300 $600 $750 $1,200 Immediate Total Cost with Crashing Predecessor(s) $1,100 $500 By how many days should each activity be crashed to reduce the project completion time by 4 days? Fill in the table below. (Enter your responses as whole numbers.) $650 $1,500 $1,650 - Each Activity Should be Reduced BY (days) A CA project consists of five activities as shown in the following table. Activity Floor sanding Floor buffing Paint mixing Wall painting Ceiling painting Optimistic Time (hr) Most Probable Time (hr) 4 4 0.5 2 3 5 5 Сл 1 3 7.5 Pessimistic Time (hr) 6 6 1.5 10 9 Naturally, the paint mixing precedes the painting activities. Also, both ceiling painting and floor sanding must be done prior to floor buffing. (a) Construct the PERT/CPM network for this problem.