Requirements and Questions

During the lead-time, the vendors advised Shirley that there was a delay in shipments and that the new hardware delivery would be ten weeks from the original receipt of the order.

The data integrity group also found that the process was more time consuming than expected. When the dataintegrity group of four was half way through the previously estimated checking period, they had only completed one quarter of the work.

1. Should Shirley simply proceed with lengthening the time for ensuring data integrity? Explain your answer and discuss any options that she should consider before making her decision.

2. Copy your Part A schedule into a new Part B file and amend the schedule according to the new information given above (i.e. assume that the shipment will be delayed and that ensuring data integrity will take longer). Manually highlight the rows where you have made changes using the "background colour" icon on the task ribbon. This is to allow your marker to locate them easily.

Document any assumptions you make in Part B in the Word document. If the changes create any resource over-allocation issues make sure that you resolve them.

3. What is the new time for the critical path? In your answer include the new date of completion, new duration and compare the new schedule with the original schedule (e.g. how much longer or shorter is the new schedule in comparison with part A).

4. Describe how each of the changes impact upon the project schedule.

5. What effect does each of the changes have on the cost of the project?