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Question: You are the project manager for an event planning firm. You have been asked to plan a career trade show for Seneca students. The trade show will be a one-day event from 9am-6pm and will exhibit 30 organizations. The trade show will require booths and set up for each organization to display and share their information with students. There are different areas of planning that need to be considered such as:
Marketing
- who to market to and when
Registration
- how to manage registration online and communicate with students, while letting organizations know how many students to expect throughout the day.
Operations
- location, set-up, wrap-up, power, requirements, booths, technology etc.
Management reporting
- progress of the event and post event statistics.
You plan to outsource some of the work (e.g., rental and set-up of booths, developing a website with registration and event information, and creating videos for the website).
Human Resources
Team members include Bobby, your IT guy; Kim, an Career councillor; Ashok, a business student ; and Alfreda, a student from Seneca.
Timeline
You have 4 months to plan this event.
Budget
Your budget is $20,000.
Create a WBS, with 3 levels of tasks and add duration.
Create network diagram of the critical path of the project. Ensure you identify the critical path and the duration of the critical path.