Chapter Seventeen Project Management 781 Time, Please CASE B. "Smitty" Smith is a project manager for a large consumer electronics corporation. Although she has been with the company only four years, she has demonstrated an uncanny ability to bring projects in on time, meet technical specifications, and be close to budget. Her latest assignment is a project that will involve merging two existing technologies. She and her team have almost finished developing the proposal that will be presented to a management committee for approval. All that remains to be done is What project durations (in weeks) should Smitty include in the proposal to develop a time estimate for the project. The team has to construct a for these risks of not delivering the project on time: 5 percent, 10 pernetwork diagram for the project. It has three paths. The expected dura- cent, 15 percent? What are the pros and cons of quoting project times tions and standard deviations for the paths are listed in the following table. aggressively? Conservatively? Heldman, Kim. Project Management Jump Start. 3rd ed. New York: Wiley, 2011