QUESTION $3(25$ Marks$)$

a$)$ Monica hired Tami to be her assistant. Tami has just completed a Project Management course and based on her newfound knowledge, suggested that communication is key to the success of projects. As such, she strongly recommends that "Good communications channels must be established between all resource managers." She has identified $8$ such resource managers with whom she needs to communicate. Due to some internal and external organizational changes, three new workers have been added with whom she needs to communicate. She also had to add an external contractor, Aldine. What is the maximum number of communication channels and would you recommend that Tami utilize all of them in this situation? Justify your recommendation.

$(8$ marks$)$

b$)$ Monica assigned Sasha a project work package which needs to be completed in $12$ weeks. The approved budget for this work package is $500,000$ dollars with a constant burnt rate $($the same amount is spent every month$).$

At the end of Week $6,$ the following data were provided:

$\backslash$table$[[\backslash$table$[[$Project$],[$week$]],\backslash$table$[[$Actual$],[$Costs $($$$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Planned$],[$Value $($$$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Percent$],[$Complete$]],\backslash$table$[[$Earned$],[$Value$]]],[1,65,000,67,000,100,],[2,85,000,89,000,100,],[3,100,000,110,000,80,],[4,125,000,121,000,50,],[5,135,000,139,000,20,],[6,125,000,131,000,0,]]$

Nicola, a Cost Portfolio Management expert is being asked to assist Sasha by calculating and analyzing the following:

i$.$ the Actual Cost $(AC)$ and Earned Value $(EV)$ of the project at the end of $6$ weeks. marks