A Teesside PLC has won a contract to work on a major Project to start on 1st November 2022. As a Project Manager you need to develop and analyse the planning schedule for this project using MS-Project. Your project team has identified major activities of the project, their dependency and resources needed to run each activity (see Appendix 1).

Appendix 1 provides information about the project, which includes project logic (activity links and their relationship – finish to start (FS), start to start (SS), and start to finish (SF)), activity durations, resource allocation and work breakdown structure (WBS).

You have been asked to perform the following planning and scheduling processes using Microsoft Project 2012 or later version.

A: CPM & WBS (10% of the assignment)

1. Draw a Gantt-Chart and CPM network for the project. Calculate early start (ES), early finish (EF), late start (LS), late finish (LF) and total float (TF) based on As Soon as Possible (ASAP) method and identify critical path.

2. Draw WBS for the project (must include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4) and discuss the importance of WBS as a Project Management tool.