OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT PLAN: A Plan to construct a 3 floor Commercial Office Building SCENARIO: You are the "Senior Manager - Commecial Projects" of an US based construction company offering commercial construction services for a wide-range of project types and markets. - You are to construct a SINGLE BUILDING CORPORATE CAMPUS for a reputable repeat customer. - DEADLINE of 1 year - with a contractual penalty clause for delays Task Items: <~200 / ~1 year Domain: Civil Construction Project Management Phases: Initiation, Planning, Execution & CONTROL Some guidelines you have established: - You will use the CRITICAL PATH technique - to control the schedule tightly - and reduce delays ASSIGNMENTS FOR YOU: a. Basics: Set project date (HINT: Keep a back date so you can track also), Set Calendar, Create Baseline/s b. Overallocations: Use several techniques to resolve overallocations c. Project Tracking: Having kept a back date for Project Start Date - then do tracking using several techniques (don't forget Update Date) d. Analyse Critical Path in the project - can you crunch dates even more (with and without additional resources)? e. Analyse Slack Dates Key Concepts to be implemented: Critical Path ; Slack ; How delays to critical path will impact the project end date; Analyse the impact for those tasks that are on critical path & have slack; Task Inspector & fixing schedulng problems; Interrupting a work on a task (Task Splitting) , Solving Overallocations - by adding Delays