The production the gantt chart identifies the critical path
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Project Management
Project Management at Deep Blue Seaways
The Senior Executive has said that it is imperative that this system enables them to save on staff numbers within the Finance areas, but you have been told that if asked about job losses that you are to say that there are no plans to cut numbers either in HQ Finance or within the various Divisions. Other issues that you need to address are how the divisions are going to standardise their information so that your system receives their data in a consistent format. It is suggested that you should determine which of the 4 Divisions follows “best practice” and use their data formats.
Project Management Questions
There are 50 working weeks a year, 5 working days a week, and that 8 hours are worked per day. Project Manager is full time for the 2 years duration of the project. There are 8000 hours of Business Analyst work, 12,000 hours of programming work, 2000 hours of system testing, 2000 hours of manual writing, and 500 hours of user testing. The project must be completed in 2 years.
You are therefore using the following list of resources:
Manual writer
User Acceptance Testers
Clearly your system is not going to operate in isolation from other systems that Deep Blue Seaways have. Consider what these systems are and what issues that you may have in linking up with them
(6 marks)
Grading Criteria
70+ Appropriate project management issues and
criteria are selected and justified demonstrating a high degree of
insight into the role of a project manager.
The production of the Gantt chart identifies the critical path, and
makes reasonable assumptions when utilising resources.
The standard of presentation is high throughout.