Unit V Assessment
1. As a senior manager, you oversee a project with a total estimated cost of 245 engineer - months of effort. Three months ago, however, the project had fallen behind by about 25 engineer - months so you authorized the hiring of three additional engineers, which you felt should more than make up for the delay in the remaining year of the project (3 x 12 months = 36 engineer - months). You have just received the latest quarterly project status report and are surprised to learn that the project is now 40 engineer - months behind schedule! Your ?rst reaction is to calculate how many more engineers need to be hired to make up for the increased delay. Using Brooks' concept of the Mythical Man-Month, explain what might be happening here.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
2. Analyze the following statement: All projects overrun cost estimations and therefore we do not need cost estimations. Support your response with examples.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
3. Describe the benefits of forming a network of activity and event relationships that graphically portrays sequential relations between tasks in a project.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
1. The city of McLeod is building a new ?re station in their city. The project manager, city manager, and chief of the ?re department have set the following criteria for the process of selecting a scheduling technique for a new project: easy to use, shows durations of tasks, shows milestones, can see the ?ow of work, can see the sequence of events, can depict which tasks can be undertaken at the same time, and can tell how far tasks are from completion. The city manager favors the Gantt chart, the chief likes PERT, and the project manager prefers CPM. If you were the project manager, which method would you use, and why?