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This document provides instructions for completing a practical assessment on a conveyor belt project schedule. It includes a project schedule table listing activities, descriptions, resources, durations, and preceding activities. It also provides a resources table listing the project's resource groups and their costs. The instructions ask the student to analyze the project schedule for over-allocated resources and activities, resolve any over-allocations through leveling within or outside of slack, and discuss the impacts on the project timeline, sensitivity, and available options. The student is asked to determine the total project cost based on resource and task costs, describe the cash flow over the project lifespan, and submit the updated project file and answers.

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Conveyor Belt Project Practical3

This document provides instructions for completing a practical assessment on a conveyor belt project schedule. It includes a project schedule table listing activities, descriptions, resources, durations, and preceding activities. It also provides a resources table listing the project's resource groups and their costs. The instructions ask the student to analyze the project schedule for over-allocated resources and activities, resolve any over-allocations through leveling within or outside of slack, and discuss the impacts on the project timeline, sensitivity, and available options. The student is asked to determine the total project cost based on resource and task costs, describe the cash flow over the project lifespan, and submit the updated project file and answers.

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PART 2 – COMPLETE FOR PRACTICAL THREE ASSESSMENT

Section A:
Table A2.11: Conveyor Belt Project Schedule
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION RESOURCE DURATION PRECEDING
ACTIVITY
1 Architectural Decisions Design 25 -
2 Hardware Specifications Development, Design 50 1
3 Kernel Specifications Design 20 1
4 Utilities Specifications Development, Design 15 1
5 Hardware Design Design, Development 70 2
6 Disk Drivers Assembly, Development 100 3
7 Memory Management Development 90 3
8 Operating System Design, Documentation 25 3
Documentation
9 Routine Utilities Development 60 4
10 Complex Utilities Development 80 4
11 Utilities Documentation Documentation, Design 20 4
12 Hardware Documentation Documentation, Design 30 5
13 Integration First Phase Assembly, Development 50 6,7,8,9,10,11,
12
14 Prototypes Assembly, Development 80 13
15 Serial I/O Drivers Development 130 13
16 System Hard/Software Assembly 25 14,15
Test
17 Order Circuit Boards Purchasing 5 16
18 Network Interface Development 90 16
19 Shell Development 60 16
20 Project Documentation Documentation, 50 16
Development
21 Assemble Pre-Production Assembly, Development 30 17FS+50
Models
22 Integrated Acceptance Assembly, Development 60 18,19,20,21
Testing
Using Table A2.11 (above) and Table A2.12 (below), input the resources and costs for
this project.

Table A2.11: Conveyor Belt Project Schedule


Name Group Cost ($/hr)
Design 2 teams 100
Development 2 teams 70
Documentation 1 team 60
Assembly / Test 1 team 70
Purchasing 1 team 40
Part 1:

Prepare a memo that addresses the following questions:


1) Which (if any) of the resources are over-allocated?
Design, Development
2) Which (if any) of the activities have over-allocated resources?
Hardware Specifications, Utilities Specifications, Routine Utilities, Complex Utilities, Disk
Drivers, Memory Management, Hardware Design, Kernel Specifications, Utilities
Documentation, Operating System Documentation
3) Assume that the project is TIME CONSTRAINED and resolve any over-
allocation problems by levelling within slack. What happens?
The date of Hardware Specifications, Utilities Specifications, Hardware Design, Memory Management
Operating System Documentation, Routine Utilities, Complex Utilities, Utilities Documentation,
Hardware Documentation and Prototypes will be delayed. The bars gets more in the network graph
structure.

4) What is the impact of leveling within slack on the sensitivity of the


network?

The sensitivity of the network also changing as refers to the network diagram after resources
levelling. For example, the order of task items has changed.

5) Assume the project is RESOURCE CONSTRAINED and resolve any over-


allocation problems by leveling outside of slack. What happens? What are the
managerial implications?

Levelling outside of slack increase the length of the project from just 520days to
1030days. But it does remove the over-allocation of resources.
6) What options are available at this point?

1. bringing in outside help

2. increase the number of teams working on the project

3. increase project length to decrease over-allocation

4. possibly use a combination of levelling

Note: No splitting of activities is allowed.


Note: No partial assignments (i.e. 50 percent). All resources must be assigned 100 percent.

Part 2:

Based on the file created at the end of Part 2, prepare a memo that addresses the
following questions:

1) How much will the project cost?


Resources cost:

Task cost：

2) What does the cash flow statement tell you about how costs are
distributed over the life span of the project?

When a lot of work needs to be done, especially when it comes to more expensive external
development teams, the fair share of costs can rise dramatically

Copy and paste Cash Flow Statement ( you can take print-screen as well) for the project.

Once you are confident that you have the final schedule, save the project file as a
baseline.

Please upload the updated .mpp file and this instruction sheet with all the answers as
assignment submission.

Hint: Save a backup file just in case without the baseline.

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