.Case: Part 1 After graduating from university with a BTech degree in Information Systems, you are appointed as a system analyst at Logic Designs, a software development vendor. Logic Designs has been hired by e-beats_Africa, a marketing company that specializes in promoting and monetizing TikTok artists and their creative content. Creative content is defined as a 15 second to 3-minute recording of the artist/influencers performing music, poetry, storytelling, acting, dancing or other form of art. After purchasing content or hiring an artist, third-party clients can incorporate artist skills or content into their marketing/promotion campaigns. The project charter specifies that Logic Design manages a software project that requires them to build an online e-commerce platform to manage artist bookings and content sales. You are assigned to assist the project manager and service manager to construct a schedule management plan for each project management process group. Presently, you are operating in the project integration management knowledge area. The project sponsor produced a business case from the pre-initiation phase and the project manager produced a project charter from the initiation phase. In phase 2, planning process group, the schedule management plan is constructed. In phase 3, executing process group, the planning documents (business case and project charter) are updated. In phase 4the monitoring and controlling process groupthe service manager reassigns project members and tasks. In phase 5close project or phasea final report is produced

Question 1 [50]

1.1. Judge the importance of time dimension when making a difference between the business case and the project charter

1.2. You recommend the adaptive life cycle as the most appropriate product life cycle to guide and facilitate the schedule management strategy. Justify your recommendation.

1.3. Table 1 provides a summary of the durations assigned to activities of the project integration knowledge area.

1.3.1.Depict the activities depicted in Table 1 on an activity-on-node diagram. For each node, indicate the activity earliest start, earliest finish, latest start and latest finish. Also illustrate start and end nodes.

Note to examination candidate: do NOT draw an activity-on-arrow diagram. Please produce an activity-on-node diagram