Instructions: 

As a project manager, you have started to plan a project that aims to remodel an appliance. You created the activities with their durations and predecessors as shown in Table 1.

Table 1 - Project: Remodeling an Appliance

Question 1 (35 points): Prepare the Activity Network manually for all the activities in “Remodeling an Appliance” project.

•      You will use AON to draw the activity network, NOT “AOA.”

•      Each node should include the labels indicating duration, early start, early finish, late start, late finish, and slack.

•      You will first implement the forward pass method to find early start and early finish times, then the backward pass method to find late start, late finish, and slack times.

•      You need to work on a paper to finalize the activity network. You must draw a wellorganized activity network. You can draw it manually on a paper which does not have any lines. Paste the picture of this paper on your Microsoft Word submission. Do not submit a “pages” document.

•      You can draw the network on Microsoft Visio or PowerPoint. You should paste it on your Word submission.

•      Name the Word document as “Lastname_Firstname_Assignment5.docx”.

Question 2 (25 points): Type all the activities of “Remodeling an Appliance” project on a blank Microsoft Project sheet. Type all their durations and predecessors.

•      Start the first two activities on December 7, 2020.

•      Show all critical activities on the Gantt chart.

•      Add a column to show all the slacks for each activity.

•      Show the project summary task on the first row.

•      Create a baseline.

•      Save the document as “Remodeling_v1.mpp”, and submit this document separately.

•      Before starting Question 3, save “Remodeling_v1.mpp” as “Remodeling_v2.mpp”.

Question 3 (40 points): You have started to identify the human resources, and assign them to the activities. First, you assigned resources to the first seven activities as shown in the Table 2.

Table 2 – Human resources assigned to the activities

•      Work on “Remodeling_v2.mpp” for this question.

•      Enter all the resources in the Resource Sheet in MS Project.

•      All of the human resources work full-time in the activities.

•      You won’t write their standard rates (wage/hour).

•      Assign all the resources to their activities.

•      Show the baseline on your Gantt chart.

•      Identify all the resource overallocation problems. Take a screenshot of WBS and Gantt Chart. This screenshot must show the first row “Indicators”. Paste this screenshot on your Word document.

•      Solve the overallocation problem in Activities A and B by removing PM2 from “A. Conduct competitive analysis”, and add PM3 in this activity.

•      For the Activities D and E, check the overallocation problem in “Resource Graph” for MKT1. Take a screenshot, and paste it on your Word document.

•      Level the resources for D and E. Your resource leveling options must be as shown in Figure 1. 

•      Level the resources for D and E. Your resource leveling options must be as shown in Figure 1.

•      For the new overallocation problem after you level the resources, apply “Respect Links”.

•      For “F. Interface with Marketing staff” and “G. Develop engineering specifications”, identify the source of the overallocation problem. Remove the human resource from Activity F to solve the problem. Save “Remodeling_v2.mpp”, and submit it.

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