Please answer questions 1-4 using exhibit 5.13, greatly appreciated and will thumbs up! Thank you!
ANALYTICS EXERCISE: PRODUCT DESIGN PROJECT Box Screen Shot 2021-08...5.04 PM You work for a company that makes cell phones and have beca made project manager for the design of a new cell phone. Your supervisors have already scoped the project, so you have a list showing the work breakdown structure, and this includes major project activities. You must plan the pmj. oct schedule and calculate project duration. Your boss wants the schedule on his desk tomorrow morning! You have been given the information in Exhibit 5.13. It includes all the activities required in the project and the duration of ench activity. Also, dependencies between the activities have been identified. Remember that the preceding activity must be fully completed before work on the follow- ing activity can be started. Your project is divided into five major subprojects. Subproject P involves developing specifications for the new cell phone. Here, decisions related to such things as battery life, size of the phone, and features need to be made. These details are based on how a customer uses the cell phone. These user specifications are redefined in terms that have meaning to the suboontractors that will actually make the new cell phone in subproject S supplier speci- fications. These involve engineering details for how the product will perform The individual components that make up the product are the focus of subject D. Subproject I brings all the compa nents together, and a working prototype is built and tested, Finally, in subpmject V, suppliers are selected and con- tracts are negotiated Screen Shot O 1 Screen Shot 20... Q 1. Draw a project nelwork that includes all the activities. 2. Calculate the start and finish times for each activity and determine the minimum number of weeks for exhibit 5.13 Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the Cell Phone Design Project ACTIVITY IDENTIEKCATION DEPENDENCY DURATION (WEEKS) 21 22 P3 24 P1 P2 P3 LUAN 5 5 completing the project. Find the activities that are on the critical path for completing the project in the short- est time. 3. Identify slack in the activities not on the project criti- cal path 4. You have been asked to study the impact of making two changes to how the project is organized. The first change involves using dedicated teams that would work strictly in parallel on the activities in each sub- project. For example, in subproject P (product speci- fications) the team would work on P1, P2, P3, and P4 all in parallel. In other words, there would be no pre- cedence relationships within a subprojectall tasks within a subproject would be worked on at the same time and each would take the same amount of time as originally specified. With this new design, all the subprojects would be done sequentially with P done first, then S, D, I, and finally V. What would be the S1 S2 P4 P4 MAXOR SUPROJECTS/ACTIVITIES Product specifications IP Market reseerch Overall product Specifications Herdware Software Supplier specifications (S) Hardware Software Product design Battery Display Cemere Outer cover Product integration ! Hardware User interface Software coding Prototype testing Subcontracting w Suppliers selection Contract negotiation 5 6 1 D1 D2 D3 D4 S1 S1 51 D1, D2, D3 1 4 3 11 12 13 14 DZ 12 11.13 RAS 4 DRACTICE EVARA V1 S1, S2 14, V1 10 2
