You have been serving as Electroscan's Project Manager and are now well along in the project. Develop a narrative status report for the Board of Directors of the chain store that discusses the status of the project to date (see Table C13.3 in the book - Chapter 13) and at completion. Be as specific as you can using numbers given and those you might develop. Remember your audience is not familiar with the jargon used by Project Managers and computer software personnel; therefore, some explanation may be necessary. Your report will be evaluated on your detailed use of data, your perspective of the current status and the future status of the project and your recommendations.

Instructions:

Given the information provided in Table C13.3, analyze the data, and provide a status report:

1. Inform the status summary of the project

2. Present explanations of the variances and what does it mean

3. Identify major changes (if any) since the last report

4. Inform the projected cost at completion

5. Identify potential risks and why one should pay attention to them

6. Conclusions

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Chapter 13 Progress and Performance Measurement and Evaluation 521 Case 13.3 ta Scanner Project You have been serving as Electroscan's project manager and are now well along in the project. Develop a narrative status report for the board of directors of the chain store that discusses the status of the project to date (see Table C13.3) and at completion. Be as specific as you can, using the numbers given and those you might develop. Remember, your audience is not familiar with the jargon used by project managers and computer software personnel; therefore, some explanation may be necessary. Your report will be evaluated on your detailed use of the data, your total perspective of the current status and future status of the project, and your recom- mended changes (if any). TABLE C13.3 Electroscan, Inc. 555 Acom Street, Suite 5 Boston, Massachusetts 29 In-store Scanner Project (thousands of dollars) Actual Progress as of January 1 Name PV EV AC SV CV BAC EACE Scanner project 420 395 476 -25 -81 915 1103 HO Hardware H11 Hardware specifications (DS) H12 Hardware design (DS) H13 Hardware documentation (DOC) H14 Prototypes (PD) H15 Test prototypes (D) 1.6 Order circuit boards (PD) H17 Preproduction models (PD) OP 10 Operating system OP 1.1 Kernel specifications (DS) OP 12 Drivers OP 1.2.1 Disk drivers (DEV) OP 1.2.2 V/O drivers (DEV OP 13 Code software OP 1.3.1 Code software OP 1.3.2 Document software (DOC) OP 1.3.3 Code interfaces OP 1.3.4 Beta test software (1) U10 Utilities U 1.1 Utilities specifications (DS) U12 Routine utilities (DEV) U13 Complex utilities (DEV) U14 Utilities documentation (DOC) U15 Beta test utilities U S10 System Integration Architecture decisions (DS) S12 Integration hard/soft (DEV) $13 System hard/software test U 514 Project documentation (DOC) 515 Integration acceptance testing ) (T. 92 20 30 10 2 0 30 0 195 20 45 25 20 130 30 45 55 0 0 87 20 20 30 17 0 46 9 25 0 12 0 88 20 30 6 2 0 30 0 0 150 20 55 30 25 75 20 30 25 0 108 20 20 60 8 0 0 49 9 30 0 10 0 72 15 25 5 2 2 0 0 25 0 196 15 76 45 31 105 40 25 40 0 148 15 35 90 8 0 60 7 45 0 8 8 -4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 -45 0 0 10 5 5 5 -55 -10 -15 -30 0 21 0 0 0 30 -9 0 0 3 0 5 0 --2 16 5 5 1 0 0 5 0 -46 5 -21 -15 -6 -30 -20 5 5 -15 0 -40 5 -15 -30 0 0 -11 2 -15 0 0 2 260 20 30 10 40 30 30 100 330 20 70 40 30 240 100 50 60 30 200 20 20 100 20 40 125 10 50 20 15 30 213 15 25 8 40 30 25 100 431 15 97 60 37 336 200 42 96 30 274 15 35 150 20 40 153 8 75 20 12 30 3 $13 2 0 0 0 0