Zuma Project

For Part B of the MS Project Assignment, complete the Zuma Project – Parts 3, 4, 5 and 6 described at the end of your textbook (pp. 630-634). Answer the questions, following the directions below, and submit your MS Project files in the dropbox. Use the following coding for your filenames – start with your initials, such as XYEM660ZumaP3. mpp. Submit answers to the questions as an MS Word file, with a file name starting with your initials, such as XYEM660ZumaPB. doc. Also save your work to disk as a backup record.Note: Additional tutorials with video files on how to work with MS Project are given in the Student CD that came with your textbook and are also on the publisher’s website. Worth watching! Part 3 (20 pts. ) 3. 0 Top management is not happy with the resource-constrained schedule generated at the end of Part 2. Robin Lane, the president, has promised retailers that production of the new scooters would start on February 1, 2009. Answer the questions below in a word file document with a name starting with your initials, such as XYEM660ZumaPB. doc: 3. 0. 1. Q#1) What options are available to meet this new deadline if the project is not resource constrained? (1 pt. ) If the project is not resource constrained, then the finish date of the project will be 12/22/2008, Since the project duration is 250 days from 1/2/08. It would meet the promised 2/1/2009 deadline. 3. 0. 2. (Q#2) What options are available to meet this new deadline if the project is resource constrained? (1 pt. ) If the project is resource constrained, then the finish date will be 2/18/09, since there was an additional 40 days added to the project duration.Additional personnel should be added in order to meet the desired new deadline. 3. 1   Dewey Martin, director of product development, has managed to make the following personnel available to work on specific activities on the project. Since there is an acute shortage of personnel at ARC he requests that you only use addit ional manpower that will help meet the new deadline. Your objective is to develop a schedule which will satisfy the deadline with minimum additional resource usage. The available personnel and impact on activity duration are presented in Table A2. . 3. 1. 1   Based upon your Part 2 MS Project file, XYEM660ZumaP2. mpp, assign additional personnel as needed to complete the project before Feb. 1, 2009, but minimize the cost. 3. 1. 2   Develop a schedule that meets the time and resource allocation constraints. [You cannot go back and re-level resources. These new resources are only available for the stated specific tasks according to the schedule created at the end of Part 2. ] 3. 1. 3   Save and submit your MS Project file with a filename starting with your initials, such as XY EM660ZumaP3. mpp. (12 pts. ) 3.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Answer the questions below in your project word file, XYEM660ZumaPB. doc: 3. 2. 1 (Q#3) What is the new project complete date after assigning additional per sonnel? (1 pt. ) After additional personnel were added, the new project duration is 281. 67 days. 3. 2. 2   (Q#4) Which additional personnel assignments would you choose to complete the project before February 1st deadline at the cheapest cost? (Q#5) Explain your choices. Also, (Q#6) explain the reasons for not choosing specific options. (3 pts. ) 3. 2. 3  Ã‚   (Q#7) How have these changes affected the sensitivity of the network? 1 pt. ) 3. 2. 4 (Q#8) What is the amount range for the slack on non-critical activities? (1 pt. ) Part 4 (13 pts. ) 4. 0 Robin Lane and top management have approved the schedule generated at the end of Part 3. Save the file containing this schedule as a baseline schedule starting with your initials as XYEM660ZumaP4. mpp. (5 pts. ) 4. 1 Answer the questions below in your project word file, XYEM660ZumaPB. doc: 4. 1. 1. (Q#1) How much is the project estimated to cost? (1 pt. ) 4. 1. 2. (Q#2) What activity is estimated to cost the most to complete? (1 pt. ) 4. 1. 3. Q#3) What resource commands the greatest total cost? (1 pt. ) 4. 1. 4. (Q#4) During which month of the project are the highest and lowest costs expected to occur? What are those costs? (1 pt. ) 4. 1. 5. (Q#5) What likely costs are not contained in this budget? Include a table containing the estimated costs for each activity and a cash flow schedule for each month of the project. (4 pts. ) Part 5 (14 pts. ) 5. 0 Today’s date is August 16, 2008. Table A2. 8 summarizes the information regarding activities accomplished to date. Robin Lane has requested a written status report for the Blue Zuma project.Enter August 15 as the status report date since you are preparing your report on the 16th. Save your project file as XYEM660ZumaP5. mpp (5 pts. ) 5. 1. Your status report should include a table containing the PV, EV, AC, BAC, EAC, SV, CV, and CPI for each activity and the whole project. The report (see example report on p. 474) should also address the following questions. Save your report as XYEM660ZumaReport. doc (8 pts. ) a. How is the project progressing in terms of cost and schedule? (1 pt. ) b. What activities have gone well? What activities have not gone well? 1 pt. ) c. What do the PCIB and PCIC indicate in terms of how much of the project has been accomplished to date? (1 pt. ) d. What is the forecasted cost at completion (EACf)? (1 pt. ) What is the predicted VACf? (1 pt. ) e. Report and interpret the TCPI for the project at this point in time. (1 pt. ) f. What is the estimated date of completion? (1 pt. ) g. How well is the project doing in terms of its priorities? (1 pt. ) Try to present the above information in a form worthy of consideration by top management. Include a tracking Gantt chart with your report. 5. 2.While preparing your report you receive a phone call from Jim Keltner, a fellow project manager. He is calling to see if one of the industrial engineers assigned to your project would be available to work on his project from Augu st 22 to 27, 2008. What would you tell him? Save your file as XYEM660ZumaPB. doc. (1 pt. ) Part 6 (19 pts. ) 6. 0   Robin Lane has authorized using Management Reserves to expedite the shipping of components at an additional cost of $50,000. She has asked you to update completion and cost estimates for the Blue Zuma project. Table A2. 9 presents the revised estimates generated by the Blue Zuma project team.Save and submit your MS Project file with a filename starting with your initials, such as XYEM660ZumaP6. mpp. (12 pts. ) 6. 1   Based on the new information, answer the questions below in your project word file, XYEM660ZumaPB. doc (7 pts. ): 6. 1. 1   (Q#16) When will the project be completed? (Q#17) How does this compare with the baseline completion date? (2 pts. ) 6. 1. 2   (Q#18) What is the new estimated cost at completion (EAC)? (Q#19) What is the new VAC? (Q#20) How does this compare with VAC based on the FAC generated in Part 5? (Q#21) Which of the two VACs would you have the greatest confidence in and (Q#22)why? (5 pts. ) Related article: Conveyor Belt Project