Topics Covered: • Project initiation • Determining project feasibility • Project scheduling • Managing project activities • Manage systems analysis team members Project Initiation Projects are initiated for two broad reasons: • Problems that lend themselves to systems solutions. • Opportunities for improvement through • Upgrading systems. • Altering systems. • Installing new systems. Organizational Problems Identify problems by looking for the following signs: • Check output against
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software solutions for insurance brokers in Europe. This will be a new product‚ an enhanced version of the company’s Broker EN-Sure product. This new product release will increase Clean Insure Solutions market share in Europe. Time to market is also a critical factor in meeting the business expectations. As a result‚ this project has a very high visibility with senior management and it is very important to be completed on time for the benefit of Clean Insure Solutions Company. (https://elearning.uol.ohecampus
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determine total project duration are always questionable because of the randomness and stochastic nature of the activities’ durations. Predicting a project completion probability is valuable‚ particularly at the time of bidding. SPSS finds a longest path in a network and runs the network a number of times specified by the user and calculates the stochastic probability to complete the project in the specified time. SPSS can be used by a contractor (1) to predict the probability to deliver the project
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EXAM REVIEW WEEK ONE Chapters 1‚ 2‚ and 6 1. Describe the main elements of an “Operations Systems” model. a. The main elements of an Operations Systems model are the inputs‚ that go through the transformation process‚ then they become outputs. There is also the planning and control subsystem which is the feedback mechanism. 2. What are the primary differences between manufacturing and service operations? b. There are 5
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is the critical path(s) for the project? Architectural decisions- Hardware specifications - Hardware design - Hardware documentation - Integration first phase - Serial I/O drivers - System hard/software test -Network interface - Integrated acceptance testing. 3. Which activity has the greatest amount of slack? Utilities documentation (115 days). 4. How sensitive is this network? It is not very sensitive network because there is only one critical path. The more critical path
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G(4) H(9) D(6) F(7) b) List all the paths in the network diagram. Say which one(s) is(are) the critical path(s) and what the minimum project duration is. PATHS ACEG=3+2+8+4=17 months ACEH=3+2+8+9=22 months BDEG=4+6+8+4=22 months BDEH=4+6+8+9=27 months BDFH=4+6+7+9=26 months Critical path: BDEH Minimum project duration: 27 months c) For each activity compute ES‚ EF‚ LS LF and slack. Then‚ say which activities are critical. 3 0 5 8 3 5 10 18 10 10
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Kathmandu University school of management | Final Project- Stardom Management Project | * Project Management | | Submitted By: Group C (Arpana Thakur‚ Manaswi Shrestha‚ Pashupati Thapa‚ Saurav Pokhrel) | 5/15/2012 | | Submitted To: Mr. Jayakar Vaidya‚ Faculty‚ Kathmandu University School of Management Introduction of the company and current offers: Stardom group is an event management company. The company organizes events for its clients. The events usually involve promotional
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(PDM). The relations between the two tasks called Dependency‚ Lowery and Stover describes the task dependency as "the logical connection‚ or link‚ between two tasks"‚ (Lowery & Stover‚ 2001‚ p. 58). These relations defined according to the tasks predecessors and successors. Wysocki states four dependencies to describe and explain the relation between two tasks (Wysocki 2012‚ p.204 & 205): Finish-to-start (FS)‚ where task 2 cannot start unless the task 1 completed. Start-to-start (SS)‚ where task
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1.0 Conveyer Belt Project 1.1 Hardware 1.1.1 Hardware Specifications 1.1.2 Hardware Design 1.1.3 Hardware Documentation 1.1.4 Prototypes 1.1.5 Order Circuit Boards 1.1.6 Assemble Preproduction Models 1.2 Operating System 1.2.1 Kernel Specifications 1.2.2 Drivers 1.2.2.1 Disk Drivers 1.2.2.2 Serial I/O Drivers 1.2.3 Memory Management 1.2.4 Operating System Documentation 1.2.5 Network Interface 1.3 Utilities 1.3.1 Utilities Specifications 1.3.2 Routine Utilities 1.3.3 Complex Utilities
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available/(Crash cost-Normal cost) Calculation results can be found in Table 1 in the Appendix. Second‚ with the expected time for each task available‚ we plotted the network diagram for the project (as shown in the next page). Third‚ we found out all the paths based on the diagram and calculated the expected time‚ variance‚ standard deviation‚ Z value‚ possibility of completion by deadline and beyond deadline using these formulas: Expected time=sum of Expected time of all the
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