Bus 375 Week 3 Assignment 2 Crosby Manufacturing Company
Assignment 2: Crosby Manufacturing Company
Alhaji K Sesay
Strayer University
BUS 375: Project Management
Prepared for: Prof: Christopher Greco
6/5/2013
Crosby Manufacturing Company
Compose a synopsis of the case, using a maximum of 120 words.
The president of the manufacturing company of Crosby Manufacturing Corporation Wilfred Livingston, called a meeting with the department managers to resolve the current problem that the company have with their management cost and control systems (MCCS). The case study showed an update of the current MCCS, and also a plan to work on increasing the company’s business base and growth. Wilfred Livingston desires to bring in new computers with more advanced models to replace their current computers which …show more content…
Time, in project management, is analyzed down to its smallest detail. Cost over runs can be easily resolved in-house, but schedule issues are open and visible to the customer. Choices have to be made about which work to do and how to allocate resources. Which may lead to constraints specifically in regards to time constraint and the cost constraint? Every components of the project are analyzed on the basis to the time that is required for completion of the project. When completion of this analysis is met, the components are then broken down further into the time required to do each task. And out of all of this we will be able to estimate the duration of the project as well as what and how many/much resources need to be dedicated to that particular project. Costs are usually related to the resources which are required in the project. Cost of a project refers to what needs to be applied or assigned to the project in terms of effort and money in order to complete the project. This includes resources like materials, manpower or any third party resources that night need to be secured. However, when we allocate additional resources to the project we need to redesign the schedules which may lead to different critical paths and therefore, make it even more difficult to manage the project. In other words, we cannot change cost or time without …show more content…
The constraints which ultimately compromise the project’s performance are the quality the driver constraints. These are constraints that do not fail without dragging the project down to failure along with it. This is also the least flexible of all the constraints. The other constraint is the middle constraint which are constraints that are not as rigid as the driver constraints neither they are very flexible. The last one is the weak constraint which is the most flexible constraints. These constraints are very important but still possess the greatest flexibility.
The project performance quality actually depends on how well the weak constraints are being managed keeping intact the driver constraints. Usually time, cost and scope constraints are the three constraints which are the ones which take on one of the roles of driver, middle constraint and weak constraints in a
Alhaji K Sesay
Strayer University
BUS 375: Project Management
Prepared for: Prof: Christopher Greco
6/5/2013
Crosby Manufacturing Company
Compose a synopsis of the case, using a maximum of 120 words.
The president of the manufacturing company of Crosby Manufacturing Corporation Wilfred Livingston, called a meeting with the department managers to resolve the current problem that the company have with their management cost and control systems (MCCS). The case study showed an update of the current MCCS, and also a plan to work on increasing the company’s business base and growth. Wilfred Livingston desires to bring in new computers with more advanced models to replace their current computers which …show more content…
Time, in project management, is analyzed down to its smallest detail. Cost over runs can be easily resolved in-house, but schedule issues are open and visible to the customer. Choices have to be made about which work to do and how to allocate resources. Which may lead to constraints specifically in regards to time constraint and the cost constraint? Every components of the project are analyzed on the basis to the time that is required for completion of the project. When completion of this analysis is met, the components are then broken down further into the time required to do each task. And out of all of this we will be able to estimate the duration of the project as well as what and how many/much resources need to be dedicated to that particular project. Costs are usually related to the resources which are required in the project. Cost of a project refers to what needs to be applied or assigned to the project in terms of effort and money in order to complete the project. This includes resources like materials, manpower or any third party resources that night need to be secured. However, when we allocate additional resources to the project we need to redesign the schedules which may lead to different critical paths and therefore, make it even more difficult to manage the project. In other words, we cannot change cost or time without …show more content…
The constraints which ultimately compromise the project’s performance are the quality the driver constraints. These are constraints that do not fail without dragging the project down to failure along with it. This is also the least flexible of all the constraints. The other constraint is the middle constraint which are constraints that are not as rigid as the driver constraints neither they are very flexible. The last one is the weak constraint which is the most flexible constraints. These constraints are very important but still possess the greatest flexibility.
The project performance quality actually depends on how well the weak constraints are being managed keeping intact the driver constraints. Usually time, cost and scope constraints are the three constraints which are the ones which take on one of the roles of driver, middle constraint and weak constraints in a