You have completed each of the documents in Assessment 1 to present your determined project schedule to the CEO and senior representatives of NCT. At this meeting you will discuss your progress and how you intend to implement the project. Just before your meeting you have found out that National Camper Trailers have had the resignation of their internal steel expert, and the preferred steel supplier has gone into receivership.
Following your presentation Management have asked you to identify what impacts there may be to the project's time management, resource requirements, costs and risks and resultant schedule baseline.
1. What impacts will there be to the original project schedule
2. What will be the impact on timelines
3. What will be the impact on resources
4. What are the baseline variances
5. What measures will be put in place to address future baseline variances
6. Will there be any future impacts to the schedule
7. What ongoing measures will be in place for recording and reporting progress
8. What additional actions will be put in place to ensure the project objectives are met
9. Actions to address the loss of a key organisation SME
10. Actions to address loss of preferred supplier
11. Recommendations on how to improve this project schedule as a bench mark for future project schedules including time management issues
12. What are the potential costs and risks