The activities of an IT project have the durations (in months) and dependencies as shown in Table1. Assume that the planned start date of the project is Sunday 1 August 2021.

Activity	Description	Predecessor	Duration in Months
	Planning
A	Problem Definition	-	1
B	Statement of Scope and Objectives	-	1
C	Feasibility Study	-	2
	Analysis
D	ERD	A, B, C	9
E	Context Diagram, and DFD	A,B, C	6
	Design
F	Physical Database Design	D	3
G	Graphical User Interface	F	6
	Implementation
H	Implementation and S/W Testing	F, G	15
I	Installing the network and Network Security	H	3
	Testing
J	System Acceptance Testing	I	3

Table1

1. Draw a network diagram using Ms. Project Management or Project liber for this project showing on the diagram the duration of each activity, predecessor, the earliest start, earliest finish, latest start, and latest finish dates, the free float, and the total float.
2. What is the expected total duration of the project?
3. What is the critical path? Display the critical path only in red color using the S/W.
4. Insert the following human resources needed to implement the project as shown in table2.

Human Resource	Standard rate	Overtime rate
Project Manager (PM)	$30/Hr	$35/Hr
Systems Analyst and Designer (SAAD)	$22/Hr	$27/Hr
Web Designer (WD)	$23/Hr	$28/Hr
Software Developer (SD)	$20/Hr	$25/Hr
Database Administrator (DBA)	$23/Hr	$28/Hr
Software Tester (ST)	$21/Hr	$26/Hr
Network Specialist (NS)	$21/Hr	$26/Hr
Network Security Specialist (NS)	$23/Hr	$28/Hr
System Integrator (SI)	$23/Hr	$28/Hr

Table2

5. Populate each task with the corresponding human resources who is going to be working on each task as shown in table3.

Activity	Description	HR
	Planning
A	Problem Definition	PM
B	Statement of Scope and Objectives	PM and SAAD
C	Feasibility Study	PM
	Analysis
D	ERD	SAAD
E	Context Diagram, and DFD	SAAD
	Design
F	Physical Database Design	SAAD, and DBA
G	Graphical User Interface	SAAD, and WD
	Implementation
H	Implementation and S/W Testing	SD, and ST
I	Installing the network and Network Security	NS, and NSS
	Testing
J	System Acceptance Testing	SI, ST, and SD

Table3

6. Calculate through the S/W the total required time, and the cost of every phase of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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