QUESTION $2\mathrm{.}2$

Description:

You are a project manager overseeing the design and programming of a new software

system to replace the old manual material requirements suite that was used by the

programme office. $($Note: see yourself as an IT project manager$)$

The activity table below was compiled with the entire team and the customer is awaiting

the final schedule and costs to prepare for the budgetary provision of the entire project.

You are the project manager $($PM$).$ Peter is the System Software Specialist and reports

to you. He also supervised the User Requirement Specifications and confirmed the

budget.

Fani is the Application Software specialist and also reports to you. He knows all the

licensing requirements and the programming staff report to him. Annie is in charge of

the licensed programming team and Jan is responsible for the client development team.

Both Annie and Jan report to Fani.

Andrew is the AGILE PM expert that does team building and team $$scrums$.$ Andrew

reports directly to you as the PM$.$

Sifiso is in charge of the development server where all the programming integration is

thoroughly tested before commissioning. Sifiso reports to Peter, who also oversees the

quality control.

Study the Activity Table below and execute the following:

Activity Table

ID DESCRIPTION PREDECESSOR Resources TIME# COSTS RESPONSIBLE

A Receive Scope & Budget NONE $11$ R$25,000($You$)$

B URS Received & signed off A $11$ R$25,000($You$)$

C System Software Spec. B $13$ R$75,000$ Peter $($reports to PM$)$

D Application S$/$W Planning B $34$ R$300,000$ Fani $($reports to PM$)$

E S$/$W License Design & Plan C$,$D $34($complete$)$ Annie $($reports to Fani$)$

F Application S$/$W Design C$,$D $35($complete$)$ Jan $($reports to Fani$)$

G MRP Gap Analysis $($SPRINT$)$ E$,$F $34($complete$)$ Andrew $($reports to PM$)$

H Customisation of Apps S$/$W G $43($complete$)$ Fani $($reports to PM$)$

I Client $-$ Programming Teams G $97($complete$)$ Jan $($reports to Fani$)$

J Test Server Module Tests H$,$ I $1012($complete$)$ Sifiso $($reports to Peter$)$

K Quality Management J $52($complete$)$ Peter $($reports to PM$)$

L Hand$-$over & Training K $32($complete$)$ Annie $($reports to Fani$)$

TOTAL

# Time in WEEKS

$($Consider all resources employed at R$25,000/$week$)$

$1.$ Complete the COSTS column in the table below and add the TOTAL.

$2.$ YOU are the project manager and not all are reporting directly to you, draw a simple OBS

$($organisational breakdown structure$)$ also called the Project Organigram.

$3.$ Draw a project network that includes all the activities.

$4.$ Show the critical path

$5.$ Calculate the total slack $($SHOW the total Slack$)$

$6.$ Draw a master schedule $($use costs, early start figures$)$

$7.$ Upload resources and develop a resource histogram.

$8.$ Develop an S$-$curve based on the information. $($NOTE: Use the COST column for the S$-$curve$)$