Assignment Task:
You work for the Tshwane municipality department of electricity. The electricity supply to an up market suburb in Tshwane has been intermittent. This has resulted in the residents approaching the media to voice their discontent about the bad service they are experiencing from the Tshwane municipality. The bad publicity has prompted the mayor of Tshwane to take action. He appointed you as a competent project manager to manage the project to replace the faulty transformer at the substation of the affected suburb. The mayor has summoned you to his office to lay down the rules with you on the project execution. He has indicated that a limited emergency budget has been made available for this urgent project. The estimated and committed duration of the project is three months. You have been mandated to start immediately with the project with a highly competent project team that has been seconded to you. The budget cannot exceed R5m.
The time allocated to complete the project is limited. Using the project time management process that you are familiar with, discuss each process of your project briefly so that your team can acquire a better understanding of the process and the activities of the project
Refer to project time management process below:
- Plan schedule management
- Define activities
- Sequence activities
- Estimate activity durations
- Develop schedule
- Control schedule