QUESTION A-C

You work for a company that makes cell phones and have been 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 project schedule and calculate project duration. Your boss wants the schedule on his desk tomorrow morning! You have been given the information in Exhibit 4.13. It includes all the activities required in the project and the duration of each activity. Also, dependencies between the activities have been identified. Remember that the preceding activity must be fully completed before work on the following 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 subcontractors that will actually make the new cell phone in subproject "S" supplier specifications. These involve engineering details for how the product will perform. The individual components that make up the product are the focus of subproject "D" Subproject "I" brings all the components together, and a working prototype is built and tested. Finally, in subproject "V" suppliers are selected and contracts are negotiated. Exhibit 4.13: Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the Cell Phone Design Project es Exhibit 4.13: Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the Cell Phone Design Project MAJOR SUBPROJECTS/ACTIVITIES Product Specifications (P) ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION DEPENDENCY Market research Overall product specifications P1 P2 Hardware Software P3 Supplier specifications (5) Hardware. P4 Software P4 Product design (D) Battery $1 $1 Display Camera 51 Outer cover D1, 02, 03 Product integration (I) D4 Hardware D2 User Interface Software coding 12 11, 13 Prototype testing Subcontracting (V) 51,52 Suppliers selection. Contract negotiation 1, V EN 2008 ANAR P1 P2 P3 P4 $1 52 D1 D2 D3 04 11 12 13 14 V1 V2 DURATION (WEEKS) 6355 5 in 10 6 HOTE 1 D 1 4 3556 10 6 ook ant int ences a. Calculate the start and finish times for each activity. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) Earliest Start Time Earliest Finish lime Latest Start Time Latest Finish Time Activity P1 P2 P3 P4 SSIGN=2889349 S1 D1 D2 D3 D4 14 V1 V2 b. Determine the minimum number of weeks for completing the project. Minimum number of weeks c. Find the activities that are on the critical path for completing the project in the shortest time. OP1-P2-P3-P4-S1-D3-D4-11-14-V2 OP1-P2-P3-P4-S1-D2-12-13-14-V2 OP1-P2-P3-P4-S1-D2-D4-11-14-V2 O P1-P2-P3-P4-S1-D1-D4-11-14-V2