Read the case carefully and answer all the questions. Barbara just received the good news. She was assigned as the project manager for a project that her company won as part of competitive bidding Wheezer a request for proposal (RFP) comes into Barbara's company, a committee composed mainly of senior managers reviews the RFP. If the decision is made to bid on the job, the RFP is turned over to the Proposal Department. Part of the Proposal Department is an estimating group that is responsible for estimating all work. If the estimating group has no previous history concerning some of the deliverables or work packages and is unsure about the time and cost for the work, the estimating team will then ask the functional managers for assistance with estimating Project managers like Barbara do not often participate in the bidding process. Usually, their first knowledge about the project comes after the contract is awarded to their company and they are assigned as the project manager. Some project managers are highly optimistic and trust the estimates that were submitted in the bid implicitly unless, of course, a significant span of time has elapsed between the date of submittal of the proposal and the final contract award date. Barbara, honerer, is somewhat pessimistic. She believes that accepting the estimates as they were submitted in the proposal is like playing Russian roulette. As such, Barbara prefers to review the estimates. One of the most entical work packages in the project was estimated at twee weeks using one grade 7 employee full time. Barbara had performed this task on previous projects and it required one-person full time for fourteen weeks. Barbara asked the estimating group how they arred at this estimate. The estimating group responded that they used the three-point estimate where the optimistic time was four weeks, the most likely time was thirteen weeks, and the pessimistic time was sixteen weeks. Barbara bebered that the three-point stimate was way off of the mark. The only way that this work package could ever be completed in four weeks would be for a very small project nowhere near the complexity of Barbara's project. Therefore, the estimating group was not considering any complexity factors when using the three-point estimate. Had the estimating the triangular distribution where each of the three estimates had an equal likelihood of Occurrence, the final estimate would have been thirteen reeks. This was closer to the fourteen reeks that Barbara thought the work package would take. While a difference of I week seems small, it could have a serious impact on Barbara's project and incur penalties for late delivery Barbara was not still confused and decided to talk to Peter, the employee that was assigned to do this task. Barbara had worked with Peter on prerious projects. Peter was a grade9 employee and considered to be an expert in this work package. As part of the discussions with Barbara, Peter made the following comments: I hare seen estimating data bases that include thus type of work package and they all estimate the work package at about 14 weeks. I do not understand why our estimating group prefers to use the three point estimate. "Does the typical data base account for project complexity when considering the estimates asked Barbara. Peter responded Some data bases hare techniques for considering complexity, but mostly they just assume an average complexity level When complexity is important, as at as in our project analory estimating would be better Using analogs estimating and comparing the complexity of the work package on this project to the similar toks pasages The completed. I would say that 16-17 weeks is closer to reality, and let's hope I do not get removed from the project to put out a fire somewhere else in the company That would be terrible Itasampossible for me to get it done in 12 weeks. And adding more people to thus trock package will not shorten the schedule. It may can make it more Barbara then asked Peter one more question Peter, you are a grade 9 and considered as the subject matter expert fagde had been med as the estimating proup had said, how long rould it be taken the grade to do the job "Probably about 20 weeks or responded Peter X Cases n Project Mana... QUESTIONS (Word Limit-3000-2500 words) 1 How many different estimating techniques weddin the case