Applied Project Management

Instructions

1.    What planning steps should precede total program scheduling? What steps are necessary?2.    If the scope of effort of a project changes during execution of activities, what should be the role of the functional manager?3.    You have just been instructed to develop a schedule for introducing a new product into the marketplace. Below are the elements that must appear in your schedule. Arrange these elements into a work breakdown structure (down through level 3), and then draw the network diagram. You may feel free to add additional topics as necessary. (WBS illustrating 3 levels with numbering/naming scheme , Network diagram at level 2 (summary) .)Production layout                                                    Review plant costsMarket testing                                                            Select distributorsAnalyze selling costs                                            Lay out artworkAnalyze customer reactions                                    Approve artworkStorage and shipping costs                                    Introduce at trade showSelect salespeople                                                    Distribute to salespeopleTrain salespeople                                                      Establish billing procedureTrain distributors                                                    Establish credit procedureLiterature to salespeople                                              Revise cost of productionLiterature to distributors                                          Revise selling costPrint literature                                                        Approvals*Sales promotion                                                  Review meetings*Sales Manual                                                          Final specificationsTrade advertising                                                        Material requisitions*Approvals and review meetings can appear sever4.    Draw the network diagram and identify the critical path. Also, calculate the earliest-latest starting and finishing times for each activity: (12 9pts- 9 Activities and 3pt-Critical Path) see attached file5.    Complete all ES, EF, LS, and LF information for the following network diagram. Determine the critical path. (14pts 9 Activities and 3pt Critical Path)  see attached file6.    For the network diagram illustrated above answer the following questions:a.    What is the impact on the end date of the project if activity I slips by three weeks?b.    By how many weeks can activity D slip before the end date gets extended?c.    If activity A slips by one week, how will the slack in activity G be impacted?d.    If activity H can somehow be compressed from seven weeks to two weeks, perhaps by adding a significant number of resources, what will the impact, if any, on the end date of the project?

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