Management Assignment : Project management-plan
You are a project manager in the IT department of a company. You have been asked to develop a customised software application for the sales department of your company. You have already gathered the requirements, documented the specifications, and developed a project schedule. The head of the sales department wants the user interface of the software to be generated early in the project so that she can provide feedback that will enable you to make adjustments to the user interface. After seeing the user interface, the head of the sales department suggests a number of changes and some new features to be added to the software.
On the basis of the project information, complete the following tasks:
Construct a project schedule to determine the overall cost of and time for the project.
Identify the finish date.
Calculate the total cost.
scribe the process that was followed to review and approve the change request.
Identify the new finish date after the approval of changes.
Calculate the new total cost after the approval of changes.
Use the following information for arriving at your answers:
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Task #
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Description
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Duration
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Predecessor
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1
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Gather requirements
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10 days
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2
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Write use cases
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5 days
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1
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3
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Get client approval
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2 days
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2
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4
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Write specifications
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5 days
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3
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5
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Create high-level design
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5 days
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4
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6
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Create detailed design and schedule
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5 days
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5
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7
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Create user interface
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15 days
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6
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8
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Get client feedback
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1 day
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7
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9
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Create database
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5 days
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6
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10
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Write support modules
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30 days
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6
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11
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Unit test support modules
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5 days
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10
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12
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Write high-level functions
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45 days
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6
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13
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Unit test high-level functions
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10 days
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12
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14
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Integration testing
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5 days
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13,11
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15
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Acceptance testing
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5 days
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14,8
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Required resources are as follows:
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Tasks
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Required resources
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Gather requirements
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Product manager and project manager
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Write use cases
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Project manager and product manager
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Get client approval
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Product manager
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Write specifications
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Project manager
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Create a high-level design
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System architect
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Create a detailed design and schedule
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System architect and project manager
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Create a user interface
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User interface programmer
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Get client feedback
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Project manager and user interface programmer
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Create a database
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Database programmer
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Write support modules
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Coder
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Perform a unit test of support modules
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Coder
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Write high-level functions
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Programmer
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Perform a unit test of high-level functions
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Programmer
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Perform integration testing
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System architect, programmer, and coder
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Perform acceptance testing
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Project manager and system architect
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Resource hourly rates (in €/hour) are:
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Resource
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Hourly Rate
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Project manager
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45.00
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Product manager
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40.00
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System architect
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40.00
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User interface programmer
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35.00
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Database programmer
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30.00
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Programmer
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30.00
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Coder
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25.00
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The start date for the project is 12 October. All Saturdays and Sundays are non-working days. Calculate the Saturdays and Sundays on the basis of the current calendar year. Additionally, the following are non-working days:
• 30 November
• 25 December
• 28 December
• 1 January
• 4 January
• 17 March
• 2 April
• 5 April
• 3 May
• 31 May
• 12 July
At the close of the client feedback session (task 8), the head of the sales department wants some changes to be made, and as such, makes a formal change request that day. It takes 14 working days for the change request to be approved.
An analysis of the impact of the change reveals the following:
• Changes to the database module will require 5 days.
• Testing of the new database module will take 5 days following the changes.
• Changes to the support modules will require 7 additional days of work.
• Changes to the high-level functions will require 10 additional days of work.