project Scheduling

Rules:

· The exam should be your own work. DO NOT seek nor accept any assistance from anyone on the exam except from your instructor.

· Answer questions based on the theories and concepts presented in handouts or other reference materials or your class notes.

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3. Show detail calculations for full points

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7. Drop it into D2L Dropbox “Midterm” on or before March 4th by 5 PM with Excel Files

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1. Even though a bar chart schedule is a scheduling method, it can also be used to show progress of the project and can be compared with as-planned schedule.

☐True

☐False

2. What is NOT an advantage of CPM scheduling:

☐Calculate the project completion date

☐Coordinate among trades and subcontractors, and expose and adjust conflicts

☐Improve work efficiency

☐Ensure project design quality

3. Bar charts display (check all that apply):

☐Duration of the project.

☐Durations of individual activities.

☐Sequence of activities.

☐Relationships among activities.

4. Draw an arrow diagram that depicts the proper logic for the remodeling of a school, as described below. Use as few dummy activities as possible. Use Microsoft Excel and upload it on D2L.

Activity	Activity Description	Dependent on Activity
A	Mobilize	—
B	Clean, Grab and Fence	A
C	Excavate for Foundation	A
D	Build New Cafeteria	B
E	Remodel Lecture Room	B,C
F	Remodel Theater	D
G	Convert Old Cafeteria into a Lab	D
H	Temporarily Move Library Books	E,F
I	Install Security System	H
J	Remodel Library	E,G,H
K	Remodel Corridor	G
L	Return Books to Library	J
M	Clean up and Move out	I,K,L

5. Draw the node network for the following company reorganization project. Use Microsoft Excel and upload it on D2L.

ID	Activity	IPA	ID	Activity	IPA
10	Define Strategy	–	100	Implement Solution	60,90
20	HR Regulatory	10	110	Stakeholder Management	10
30	Define Detailed	10	120	Infrastructure	50
40	Share Vision	10	130	External Information	110
50	Develop Solution	30,40	140	Relocation	70,120,130
60	Management Approval	20,50	150	Manage Resistance	80,100,140
70	Internal Information	50	160	Documentation	20
80	MbO Revision	50	170	Report to Management	150,160
90	Responsibility Matrix	40

IPA: Immediately Preceding Activity

6. For the following schedule, draw the node network, perform the CPM calculations, mark the critical path, and complete the table below. Use Microsoft Excel.

ID	Activity	Duration	IPA	ES	EF	LS	LF	TF	FF
10	Specification Listing	5	-
20	Site Requirements	7	10
30	Call for Proposals	30	10
40	Budget Approval	12	10
50	Contract Negotiations	8	30,40
60	Signing Contracts	13	20,50
70	Sub-contractors	15	50
80	Equipment	5	40
90	Installation Plan	10	60,90
100	Staff Planning	32	10
110	Operating Documentation	6	50
120	Staff Hiring/Training	10	110
130	Risk Management	5	70,110,120
140	Integration Plan	24	50,100,120
150	Documentation	22	20

7. An arrow in an arrow diagram represents an event.

☐True

☐False

8. Dummy activities in arrow diagrams are used for:

☐a. Straightening up the logic relationships.

☐b. Distinguishing identities for activities that share the start and end nodes.

☐c. A dummy activity may consume time or other resources.

☐a and b.

☐a, b, and c.

9. When developing a formal schedule for a project how can you ensure that you are not excluding any activity?

10. Tiles () can be installed at a rate of 50 per worker hour. The floor of a large lobby area () is to be covered with these tiles. If four workers are assigned to this task, what duration (to the nearest whole day) should be assigned to this activity? Assume 8 hrs work day. Show detail calculations.

11. The WBS is a process of hierarchical grouping of activities that provides for a progressively detailed definition of work elements for all levels of review, including staff, functional manager, project manager, or program manager. In your professional life, you will be engaged in different types of process such as design process, manufacturing process, construction process, testing process etc. Image your boss has given you a project for the improvement of an existing process. The project is divided into three phases:

1. Research to determine the best solution to the problem. This research includes the recommendation of a solution, or solutions, to the management

2. Implementation of the approved solutions. If there were more than one approved solution, then the “Phase 2” WBS would be repeated for each solution

3. Evaluation to determine if the solution works. This leads back to further research and continuous process improvement.

Develop a WBS for this project with four levels of activities. Use Tree format for WBS and codes as shown in the bicycle example. I have completed first two levels of activities. Complete two more levels of activities.

1. Process Improvement Project

1.1 Research

1.2 Implementation

1.3 Evaluation

12. Compare and contrast arrow network and node network.

13. Develop an automated Bar Chart Schedule for the project to institute a control chart program in a company using Microsoft Excel. Project Start date May 2nd 2016. Plan for a 5 day work week with weekends and federal holidays off. Upload the Excel file with your midterm exam on D2L.

Activity	Duration
Launch program	5
Select area	3
Order software	2
Select team	1
Train team	15
Select output	2
Take data	3
Training in software	7
Plot	1

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