Uber would like to develop a new driver portal to help better manage their drivers. The task
Question:
Uber would like to develop a new driver portal to help better manage their drivers. The task requires a several teams that need to coordinate together in order to deploy the app in a timely manner.
Tasks:
The tasks of developing a new driver-side app requires creating UI wireframes, developing a smartphone app (i.e., develop driver portal of app), user acceptance testing (UAT), fixing bugs, and deploying the app onto a production server for all to use.
Costs:
Graphic team to develop UI framework: $50/hr per designer; requires 1 designer
Web developers to create app and fix bugs: $100/hr per developer; requires 2 developers
Product managers to UAT: $85/hr per manager; requires 1 manager
Dev Ops engineers to deploy app onto production server: $100/hr per engineer; requires 1 engineer
Timeline
The project will start on 06/01/2020. Skip the weekends and any holidays to calculate the end date of the project.
ID | Task Name | Predecessor Task | Duration (days) | |
1 | Create UI wireframe | - | 5 | |
2 | Develop driver portal of app | 1 | Create UI wireframe | 20 |
3 | UAT | 2 | Develop driver portal of app | 5 |
4 | Fix bugs | 3 | UAT | 10 |
5 | Deploy to production | 4 | Fix bugs | 2 |
Instructions:
Create a precedence diagram
Perform a forward pass and backward pass
Calculate the float/slack
Identify the critical path
How much would this entire project cost?
Which role costs the most on this project (e.g., product manager, web developers, etc)?
What date will the project end? Assuming it starts on 06/01/2019 and your team is only working weekdays.