[6:36 am, 16/12/2021] sdaljit js: Case Study 3 For the past several years , Kent Corporation had achieved remarkable success inwinning R& D contracts . The customers were pleased with the analytical capabilities of the R & D staff at Kent . Theoretical and experimental results were usually within 95 percent agreement But many customers still felt that 95 percent was too low . They wanted 98 to 99 percent . Kent updated its computer facility by purchasing a large computer . The increased performance with the new computer encouraged the R &D group to attempt to convert from two - dimensional to three -dimensional solutions to theoretical problems . Almost everyone except the director of R &D thought that this would give better comparison between experimental and theoretical data Kent Corporation had tried to develop the computer program for three -dimensional solutions with its own internal R &D programs , but the cost was too great . Finally , after a year of writing proposals , Kent Corporation convinced the federal government to sponsor the project . The project was estimated at \$750,000 , to begin January 2, and to be completed by December 20. Dan McCord was selected as project manager . Dan had worked with the electronic data processing department on other projects and knew the people and the man-hour standards . Kent Corporation was big enough to support 100 simultaneous projects . With so many projects in existence at one time, continual reshuffling of resources was necessary . The corporation directors met every Monday morning to establish project priorities . Priorities were not enforced unless project and functional managers could not agree on the allocation and distribution of resources Because of the R&D director's persistence , the computer project was given a low priority . This posed a problem for Dan McCord The computer department manager refused to staff the project with his best people . As a result Dan was very skeptical about the success of the project . In July, two other project managers held a meeting with Dan to discuss the availability of the new computer model . We have two proposals that we're favored to , providing that we can state in our proposal that we have this new computer model available for use," remarked one of the project managers . We have a low priority andeven if we finish the job on time, I'm not sure of the quality of work because of the people we have assigned," said Dan How do you propose we improve our position?asked one project manager. "Let's try to get in to see the director of R&D " asserted Dan "And what are we going to say in our defense?" asked the other project manager.