QMDS400 Assignment1
Faculty of Business Administration
University of Macau
QMDS400-001, 002 Project Management and Quality Control
(fall semester 2013/2014)
Assignment 1 due date: 28th Oct, 2013, Monday (in class)
Introduction to Project Management
1. How are projects different from ongoing operations?
2. Why are more people spending more of their work time on projects?
Project selection & prioritization
3. List and describe the steps in prioritizing projects with a scoring model.
4. Complete the following scoring model. Show all your work. Tell which project you would pick first, second, third, and last. Justify your answer.
Organizational capability: structure, culture, and roles
5. List the advantages and disadvantages of functional, projectized, and matrix forms of project organization.
6. List and describe four organizational culture characteristics that increase the likelihood of project success and tell why each is helpful.
Scheduling Projects
7. Given the information below,
Activity
Days
Immediate Predecessor
A
5
B
2
A
C
4
A
D
7
A
E
3
B
F
6
B,C
G
8
D,E,F
i) Create the project schedule network. ii) Using the Two-pass method, calculate and show the early and late starts, early and late finishes, and slack for each activity iii) Identify the critical path and the duration need for the project. iv) Input the data into MS Project. Print the schedule in Gantt Chart format.
8. Given the information below,
Activity
Days
Immediate predecessor
A
7
B
B
2
-
C
3
A
D
5
A
E
7
B
F
3
C
G
4
D
H
6
E, F
I
5
G, H
i) Create the project schedule network. ii) Using the Enumeration method, calculate and show all of the paths through the network. Show how long each path will take. iii) Identify the critical path and the duration need for the project. iv) Input the data into MS Project. Print the schedule in Gantt Chart format.
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University of Macau
QMDS400-001, 002 Project Management and Quality Control
(fall semester 2013/2014)
Assignment 1 due date: 28th Oct, 2013, Monday (in class)
Introduction to Project Management
1. How are projects different from ongoing operations?
2. Why are more people spending more of their work time on projects?
Project selection & prioritization
3. List and describe the steps in prioritizing projects with a scoring model.
4. Complete the following scoring model. Show all your work. Tell which project you would pick first, second, third, and last. Justify your answer.
Organizational capability: structure, culture, and roles
5. List the advantages and disadvantages of functional, projectized, and matrix forms of project organization.
6. List and describe four organizational culture characteristics that increase the likelihood of project success and tell why each is helpful.
Scheduling Projects
7. Given the information below,
Activity
Days
Immediate Predecessor
A
5
B
2
A
C
4
A
D
7
A
E
3
B
F
6
B,C
G
8
D,E,F
i) Create the project schedule network. ii) Using the Two-pass method, calculate and show the early and late starts, early and late finishes, and slack for each activity iii) Identify the critical path and the duration need for the project. iv) Input the data into MS Project. Print the schedule in Gantt Chart format.
8. Given the information below,
Activity
Days
Immediate predecessor
A
7
B
B
2
-
C
3
A
D
5
A
E
7
B
F
3
C
G
4
D
H
6
E, F
I
5
G, H
i) Create the project schedule network. ii) Using the Enumeration method, calculate and show all of the paths through the network. Show how long each path will take. iii) Identify the critical path and the duration need for the project. iv) Input the data into MS Project. Print the schedule in Gantt Chart format.
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