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Objective: To develop a simple project plan using a desktop application. Use the software to characterize task sequences, resource assignments, and to determine the completion time and critical path.

Instructions: You have been tasked with planning a project. The project relates to one of the following two end objectives $($you select one of these$)$:

$1.$ Develop an App to help not for profit organizations create a business plan.

$2.$ Organize a regional Bossaball $($Links to an external site.$)$ tournament $($note: you can switch the sport$).$

As the project manager you must:

Estimate the activities required to complete the project $($your best guess$).$ There should be at least $10$ activities.

Estimate their duration in days and their precedence relationships. Activities should not be all in sequence. At least three activities must have $2+$ direct predecessors. For the most part, activity durations should be different values

See the table below as an example: activity C has $3$ predecessors, activities M$,$ O$,$ and have two each, while F has three. While some duration values are repeated $(1,2,$ and $4),$ they are for the most part different. The figure shows a Gantt chart of this project data $($activities in dark tone are in the critical path$).$

Your project plan should have several activities not in the critical path.

Code Activity Precedences Duration $($weeks$)$

P Project kickoff $2$

D Develop $...$ P $3$

A Analyze $...$ P $5\mathrm{.}5$

R Research $...$ P $4$

C Complete a $...$ D$,$ A$,$ R $2$

M Make prototype $...$ D$,$ R$4\mathrm{.}5$

O Obtain $...$ C$,$ M $2$

U Pre$-$ Launch $...$ C$,$ M $4$

T Test and $...$ M $1$

F First... O$,$ U$,$ T $1$

Establish resources $($you and your team $+$ external$)$ and assign resources to activities.

Use Gannt Project or MS Project to setup the project and to determine the project completion time, the critical path, and the utilization of resources. If using MS Project be sure to use Auto Schedule in the task mode for all the activities. Contact the professor if you prefer to use a different type of PM software. The use of Excel or Word is not allowed and will be awarded a grade of $0.$

Develop a report with the following elements:

Short introduction.

Table with activities, durations, precedences, and resources.

Outputs from software $($as images$).$ Outputs to be included are: Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, and Resource Usage.

A brief written analysis of the outputs$/$graphs which includes the estimated completion time of the project and the activities the project manager must focus on$.$