Prepare a plan to present to the board

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Case Study 1: A Not-For-Profit Medical Research Center

This is an open-ended case study, useyour creativity. This case continues through to Chapter 8. Each chapter has questions to reinforce the concepts presented. Save your work from this case study for the workyou will do in Chapters 5 to 8.

A. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

CASE QUESTIONS

You and your team need to prepare a plan to present to the board. You must:

1. Establish the project objective, and make a list of your assumptions about the project.
2. Develop a work breakdown structure.
3. Prepare a list of the specific activities that need to be performed to accomplish the project objective.
4. For each activity, assign the person who will be responsible.
5. Create a network diagram that shows the sequence and dependent relationships of all the activities.

B. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AT THE END OF THE CASE

CASE STUDY - A Not-for-Profit Medical Research Center

This case study is a continuation of the case study started in Chapter 4.

CASE QUESTIONS

1. Develop an estimated duration for each activity.

2. Using a project start time of 0 (or May 15) and a required project completion time of 180 days (or November 15), calculate the ES, EF, LS, and LF times and TS for each activity. If your calculations result in a project schedule with negative TS, revise the project scope, activity estimated durations, and/or sequence or dependent relationships among activities to arrive at an acceptable baseline schedule for completing the project within 180 days (or by November 15). Describe the revisions you made.

3. Determine the critical path, and identify the activities that make up the critical path.

4. Produce a bar chart (Gantt chart) based on the ES and EF times from the schedule in item 2.

CASE STUDY - A Not-for-Profit Medical Research Center

This case study is a continuation of the case study from Chapters 4 and 5.

CASE QUESTION
Using the responsibility assignments you made in Chapter 4 and the baseline schedule you developed in Chapter 5, now develop a resource requirements table (similar to Figure 6.3).

Note: This case study will continue in Chapters 7 and 8, so save the results of your work.

GROUP ACTIVITY

Divide the course participants into the same groups as for the previous chapter's group activity, and answer the question listed.

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