have just completed the project charter, scope statement, and WBS. Now that you know what needs to be done, as the Project Manager, you are now ready to begin planning your project. This week, you will have two deliverables to complete for the project. * Using MS Project, create a project schedule and align resources – 35 points * Analyze project schedule and resource allocation: two essay questions – 20 points Please provide these two deliverables (MS Project file and MS Word document)
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QUESTIONS Maggie Larocque Keller Graduate School of Management Abstract This project schedule for the Huntsville Plant has been completed. The task sequencing as well as the duration of each activity has been assigned with its predecessors. As each phase has been completed, the resource list has been loaded and aligned to each task. This report will analyze the results of the project schedule and resource allocation. An analysis of the Gantt chart reveals that the estimated duration of each
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E-Mail to Alex conveying project duration and critical tasks Hi Alex, Based on the task details provided, a project plan for the UltraMAX Testing Project has been created. The total duration of the project as can be seen from the project summary report is 140 days, with the project completion date as 3rd September 2010. The tasks that are on the critical path, and which should be managed very closely to ensure that there are no delays to ensure that there is no schedule slippage are : identify target
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ignoring the sunk cost of the planning team’s effort, what is the expected project completion date? The expected project completion date was Nov 19, 2003 because the project started for May 26, 2003 and the project duration was 127 days. After rearranging the tasks of the project, however, the project needed 4 less days to be achieved, so the expected project completion data would be delayed to Nov 13, 2003 with the project duration of 123 days. 2. What is the total cost? How much of the total
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Kingfish Datacenter Migration By Reginald L. Cobb PROJ 592 Professor Keith Bluestein Executive Summary/Proposal When an organization decides to migrate to a state-of-the-art data center, it is considered a strategic initiative that, if done correctly, will help the organization in several key areas. The migration will help the enterprise and service providers maintain market leadership, increase business agility, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), meet regulatory requirement, and position
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12There is, for almost all projects, usually a dominant constraint that serves as the final arbiter of project decisions.TRUE@@@In a resource constrained project, the work must be finished by a certain time, or date, as efficiently as possible.FALSE@@@All that is needed to create a resource loading calendar is the work breakdown structure and the activity network.FALSE@@@Because resource management is typically a multivariate, combinatorial problem (i.e., on that is characterized by multiple solutions
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Huntsville Plant Project can be done by its required completion time, calculation of the projects earliest and latest dates was required to figure out the project’s completion date. I have completed this project schedule. The task sequencing as well as the duration of each activity has been assigned with its predecessors. As each phase has been completed, the resource list has been loaded and aligned to each task. This report will analyze the results of the project schedule and resource allocation. In most
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Contingency Pricing: Problem (TCO G) Crashing: Problem (TCO C) WBS: Problem (TCO E) Resource Allocation/Leveling: Problem (TCO F, G) Earned Value/PMIS: Problem (TCO C) General Budget development, sensitivity: Problem Discussion topics: (TCO D) Accounting, PMIS, and Project Control (TCO A) Budgeting processes and techniques (TCO E) Resource Allocation Matrix (TCO F) Project Control Process (TCO F, G) EVM and EAC: Discussion: Terminal Course Objectives A Given
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Project Deadline The project will not meet the deadline of June 30, 2012, there are numerous variables and tasks that must be completed in order to start the construction of the building. The construction of the building will begin July 25, 2011 and end in April 27, 2012. The planning phase alone will take ten full weeks to complete before the site preparation can begin. Not meeting the 2012 deadline may create a negative impact on the entire project and could potentially delay or jeopardize the
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QSO 640: Project Management 5-1 Short Paper: Project Execution Steven Volden May 31, 2015 Southern New Hampshire University Professor Dr. Jerry Fausz, PMP Project Managers have various roles and responsibilities during all stages of the Project Management process. From project selection, to project planning to project rollout and execution, there are many facets a Project Manager must oversee and manage. This paper will look at how Project Managers execute project tasks, manage change
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