Project Assignment
McGee Carpet and Trim installs carpets in commercial offices. Andrea McGee has been very concerned with the amount of time it took to complete several recent jobs. Some of her workers are very unreliable. A list of activities and their optimistic completion time, the most likely completion time, and the pessimistic completion time (all in days) for a new contract are provided in a given table. Following are the activities that are required to install the carpets in the offices:
• Activity 1: Measure office room dimensions
• Activity 2: Estimate cost
• Activity 3: Material requisition
• Activity 4: Workforce requisition
• Activity 5: Special tool requisition
• Activity 6: Installation
• Activity 7: Inspection and customer acceptance
Activity 2 starts immediately after Activity 1. Activity 3, Activity 4, and Activity 5 start concurrently after Activity 2. Activity 6 does not start until after Activity 3, Activity 4, and Activity 5 are completed. The carpet installation project is complete after Activity 7 is completed. If OT = Optimistic Time, MT = Most Likely Time, and PT = Pessimistic Time, use a Program Evaluation Review Estimate (PERT) to compute the statistical time for each activity, as in the following table:
Activities OT MT PT
Activity 1 2 3 4
Activity 2 3 6 9
Activity 3 4 8 12
Activity 4 6 8 10
Activity 5 8 10 12
Activity 6 10 14 18
Activity 7 4 6 8
You must also do the following:
• Determine the expected completion time and the variance for each activity
• Determine the total project completion time and the critical path for the project
• Determine Early Start (ES), Early Finish (EF), Late Start (LS), and slack for each activity
• What is the probability that McGee Carpet and Trim will finish the project in 40 days or less?
• Define project management and the necessary requirements.
• Analyze implications of changes in project scheduling.
• Evaluate application of project management techniques in terms of the firm's business operational goals and requirements.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.