Using the "crashed" schedule, if you start Activity 2002 on August 12, 2001, what is the finish date for Activity 2002?
Constraints control events or activities that __________________.
Midway through the project you received an executed change order for this project, adding thirty-three days to the contract for weather delays. In its simplest form, how would your next project update display the changed condition?
When resource leveling craft labor for a critical path schedule, the scheduler
If a detailed estimate is NOT available to assist in the formulation of activity durations but unit quantities have been identified, what information can be utilized to estimate work package/activity durations?
Which letter of the alphabet best approximates the graphical shape of a project's cumulative cost baseline, or budgeted cost of work scheduled?
For activity 11001. why would the crashed direct cost be greater than the direct cost of the normal schedule?
Based on the stated costs, what percentage of the total cost comes from the 2000 series of activities?
Using a 1.75 cubic yard [1.34 cubic meter] bucket, how many lifts does it take to pour each 2.000-cubic foot [56.64 cubic meter] column?
What does the narrow band at "Y" represent?
A good change management plan___________.
Which activity is drawn in the incorrect position?
If after calculating a schedule an activity exhibits negative total float, which of the following is certain? The activity
Management has determined the need to release the product 20 days earlier than planned. What tasks need to be expedited?
What owner action could have mitigated the late completion of the project?
If all other work proceeds according to the Baseline plan, how many times will the critical path change?
The data date or status date of a schedule represents the:
Budgeted cost of work scheduled is _______________________.
In the normal schedule, excluding Activity 1000. what activity(s) are concurrent with Activity 3001?
What is the actual duration as of the status date or data date of Activity B?
Which statement is true?
How many work days does it take to move the product from testing to sale?
Which of the following is NOT required when initially planning a project?
What is a critical path method schedule?
The amount of time that an activity can be delayed from its early start date without delaying project completion is called:
Total float is defined as the amount of time an activity can be delayed without impacting
If Activity A was delayed 5 days from starting, which of the following adjustments will NOT maintain the completion date of Activity C at Day 40?
Using the crashed schedule, if you start Activity 2002 on 12 August 2021. what is the finish date for Activity 2002?
What day would Activity C complete if the duration of Activity A was reduced by five days?
Which of the following phases does NOT describe the commonly accepted construction life cycle?
Which of the following documents is most likely to be of the LEAST value to a planner/scheduler when planning a contractor's baseline critical path schedule for the construction of a large high-clearance bridge located very near an airport? The contractor has been awarded the contract.
What activities are concurrent to Activity 2001 in the "normal" schedule?
Prior to the beginning work on Activity 6001, the scope is changed by executed change order to increase the activity duration by thirty days and rock fill by 100.000 cubic meters If the project has progressed as scheduled up to the point of the executed change order, what activities would be changed on the next project update?
For which of these delays should an owner grant a time extension?
The addition of which of the following relationships would cause a logic loop?
Why does activity 11001 not show successor activities?
As a change to the network for the current update, activity 6002 is required to begin ten days after the beginning of activity 6001. Which is the simplest logic organization?
Due to a testing delay, release of the product for manufacture is delayed by 5 workdays and the product manual misses its print window at the printer. If the printer is delayed by 10 workdays, what is the delay to produce release?
The congested site only has room for 3 cranes to operate concurrently. Only 1.75 cubic yard ICY] or1.34 cubic meter [CM] concrete buckets are available. Each crane can perform up to 35 lifts per day. Assuming a total of 30 lifts per crane pet day. what is the maximum volume of concrete that could be placed using 3 small tower cranes over a 5-day period?
Considering the information provided for the project, what is the factor that most influences the successful crashing of the schedule?
Background
Your name is Evan Marshal. You are the corporate scheduler for Happy Insurance Corporation (HIC), a general health insurance company located in Ridgemond, Illinois. HIC is very busy with 49 unique software development projects. The organization structure at HIC gives the project scheduling responsibility to the Project Manager assigned to each project. You are charged with coordination of the project schedules into a Master Schedule and quality control for scheduling on the individual development projects. You report directly to the Director of Information Services (DIS), Desmond Rayburn.
It has come to your attention Project JP-114 has fallen behind schedule and Rita Belateau, the Project Manager, wants to accelerate the project in order to reclaim lost time. Rita is a strong supporter of Total Quality Management and strives for zero failures; therefore she is assessing the need for overtime for resources assigned to an activity that is not projecting a completion prior to the early finish depicted in the current schedule.
You and Rita review the current schedule to identify which activities are on the critical path and which activities have plenty of float. The review reveals several activities have suffered less than planned productivity and have contributed to falling behind. In the process of this review, you and Rita also review the budget for Project JP-114 and notice not only the schedule has fallen behind but the cost to date is more than she had expected. To total budget is $150,000, planned to date is $30,000; expended to date is $37,000.
With nine months remaining until baseline contract completion, Rita needs to bring Project JP-114 back on track; knowing overtime for an extended period of time is not always the right answer, especially with the cost to date already over planned.
In order to truly understand the options available to help remedy the current situation, you and Rita brainstorm on several potential courses of action. All the potential courses of action will require an evaluation of budget impact versus schedule correction.
1. Pull the project team together and ensure everyone understands which activities are on the critical path. Rita would like to use the existing project team and focus them on these critical path activities, laying out a plan for periodic overtime when needed to crunch through a deliverable. This approach could add approximately 20% to the budget.
2. Outsource various modules of activities to qualified and known consultants. This could drive up the costs and must be evaluated before implemented. Having an outside source working in parallel with the project team could also accelerate the schedule to mitigate some of the delays, as well as keep overtime down to a minimum for the project team. Potentially this could add as much as 40% to the budget, but could also be very productive schedule wise.
3. Mandatory overtime for the project team - entire project goes on a 50-hour work week. If the entire project team works overtime for an extended period of time, the budget could see an additional 60% increase.
4. The project continues as is completes the project late and accepts the penalties imposed. Penalties imposed for late delivery could add as much as 50% to the budget.
Assignment
Draft a proper memorandum to Desmond Raybum, IS Director, explaining in your own words:
a. the current problem and potential impact(s);
b. each course of action, stating advantages and disadvantages as appropriate;
c. your recommendations, properly supported.
Please be sure to include the rationale for your recommendations. Be sure to summarize your thoughts and address (To, From, Date, and Subject/Project Name) and close the memo appropriately. If you are uncomfortable with the courses of action noted, provide your own with appropriate substantiation for your position. Limit your answer to one, full typewritten page (roughly three handwritten pages).
While your email can be a detailed as you like, be sure to write sufficiently to address each element of the assignment, yet not so long that you go beyond the scope of the exercise.
Take time to read the problem and consider what you want Evan to say. Good luck!
By subtracting a measured unit productivity rate during an impacted period from the unit productivity rate during an unimpacted period, the resulting value represents:
Assuming a total of 30 lifts per crane per day, what is the maximum number of lifts that could be accomplished using 3 small tower cranes over a 5-day period?
Which of the following parties is NOT a stakeholder of the Spring Highway project?
An earned value-based project control system can use either of which two budgets as the basis of its calculations?
You are developing a detailed critical path schedule for a proposed petrochemical plant. The schedule will become a part of the project baseline document, which will be sent to the company's board of directors for its consideration. What document or resource is likely to be MOST valuable in determining the schedule's work activity durations?
In its simplest form, what is the main drawback of critical path method scheduling?
What is the result of a forward pass calculation?