1. You are the project manager for a construction project to repave a 3 mile section of highway. The project is planned to coincide with the winter months where the area typically has lots of rain and colder weather making work slow and generally inefficient. In some years, this area gets unusually good and mild weather where the work would proceed more quickly and without the typical winter delays. Is the possibility of “good” weather a risk to the project? Why or why not? What, if anything should you do about this possibility?
2. Project scheduling software tools such as Microsoft Project or Prima Vera (Oracle) are commonly used to store project decisions, capture actual data, show progress and easily update the schedule with approved changes.
Before beginning to input data into Microsoft Project to create a Project Schedule ( Gantt Chart), what project planning tools/techniques should already be completed to facilitate data entry into the tool?