Week 7 Quiz

You have been hired by a website design, production, and hosting company whose new animated website designs are attracting a lot of attention and many customers. Currently employees are organized into different functions such as hardware, software design, graphic art, and website hosting, as well as functions such as marketing and human resources. Each function takes its turn to work on a new project from initial customer request to final online website hosting. The problem the company is experiencing is that it typically takes one year from the initial idea stage to the time a website is up and running: the company wants to shorten this time by half to protect and expand its market niche. In talking to other managers, you discover that they believe the company's current functional structure is the source of the problem-it is not allowing employees to develop websites fast enough to satisfy customers' demands. They want you to design a better structure. Discuss how you can improve the…

Florida Southwestern State College has decided to implement a new registration system that will allow students to register online as well as in person. As an IT manager, you decide to set up a JAD session to help define the requirements for a new system. The FSW organization is fairly typical, with an administrative staff that includes a registrar, student support and service team, a business office, an IT group, and a number of academic departments. Using this information, you start work on a plan to carry out the JAD session. Who would you invite to the session, and why? What would be your agenda for the session, and what would take place at each stage of the session?

In network analysis, the process of calculating LS and LF       A. Is sufficient for identifying the critical path   B. Cannot be done until slack  time is first determined     C. Requires only a backward pass through the network     D. Requires only a forward pass through the network

Used : Call center optimization as project , please give Citation if possible   are required to identify and select a project that you have worked on, whether as a project manager or project team member. If you have not worked on a project before or you are unable to select a suitable project based on your work experiences, you should select a project that you know about and have sufficient access to the project’s information. Remember, the project that you select (the case) should have already been completed/finished, implemented, or executed. If you decide to select a project outside of your work experiences, there are several completed projects in your local community, your country, the region, or internationally that you may be able to use as a case for this assignment. There are no restrictions on the type of project that you select or decide to work with, however please be deliberate in your selection or when choosing a project to work with. You should avoid selecting a project…

The table below contains data for the installation of new equipment in a manufacturing process at Excello Corporation. Your company is responsible for the installation project. Indirect costs are $12,000 per week, and a penalty cost of $6,000 per week will be incurred by your company for every week the project is delayed beyond week 12. Activity A B с D E F G Immediate Predecessor(s) AB Activity A B с D A C D, E E Normal Time Crash Time (weeks) (weeks) 3 1 2 2 1 3 4 1 6 3 Time according to schedule (weeks) 1 a. What is the shortest time duration for this project regardless of cost? The shortest project duration regardless of cost is 9 weeks. (Enter your response as a whole number.) b. What is the minimum total cost associated with completing the project in 12 weeks? The minimum total cost to complete the project in 12 weeks is $ 203500. (Enter your response as a whole number.) c. What is the total time of the minimum-cost schedule? (Enter your responses as whole numbers.) The total…

William, a project manager, has a workload of 25,000 hours that needs to be completed in 30 weeks. He has a team of 20 people who work five 8-hour days per week. He notices that in the 30-week period, there are three holidays and 6 members have each requested 8 days off. Given this information, William is _____ short of completing his workload. Question options: 23,136 hours 1,864 hours 480 hours 1,480 hours 384 hours

John, Jack and Jill are project managers for Jusco Company. All three of them lead their own team, with two supervisors working under them. John’s team has 10 members, Jack has 8 members in his team and Jill has 11 members under his care. Both John and Jack completed their projects on time with the same amount of allocated budgets from top managers. But Jill didn’t manage to complete the project on time this time round.   (i) Assuming all three projects have the same scale in terms of size, quality,and complexity, what can we conclude about the effectiveness and efficiency of these three project managers based on the informationabove? Justify your answers   PLEASE PROVIDE CLEAR EXPLANATION THANK YOU , THIS TOPIC IS UNDER EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL MANAGEMENT THEORIES

A large Southeast city is requesting federal funding for a park-and-ride project. One of the requirements in the request application is a network plan for the design phase of the project. Sophie Kim, the chief engineer, wants you to develop a project network plan to meet this requirement. She has gathered the activity time estimates and their dependencies shown here. ID Description A Survey B Soils report с Traffic design D Lot layout E Approve design F G Drainage H Landscape I Signage J Illumination Bid proposal The project is expected to take The critical path is: Early start for Activity E is: Late finish for Activity F is: Slack for Activity C is: Predecessor None A A A B, C, D E E E E F, G, H, I Time (days) 9 22 25 6 76 20 24 24 25 9 days. day(s).

In project management, CPM is an activity-oriented approach. Select one: O True O False

How long it will take for each activity on the network chart is all but one of the following. Estimated duration The elapsed time that will be required Equal to the early start O Expressed in the same time units - days, hours, months, years

when discussing processes related to Project Execution, the ISO 10006 stabdard splits this category into different project groups. Which of the following is not one of these subcategories? a. Human resource-related processes b. Procurement processes c. Time related processes d. risk-related process

A network diagram's ability to use probability estimates in determining critical paths and deadlines. TRUE or FALSE?

The most popular priority rules include:a) FCFS. b) EDD.c) SPT. d) all of the above.

In a network diagram, an activity:A) Is the largest unit of work effort consuming both time and resources that a project manager can schedule and control?B) Should always be something the company has had experience with. C) Is the smallest unit of work effort consuming both time and resources that a project manager can schedule and control?D) Must always have a single, precise estimate for the time duration.

The client of a project has requested the project team to crash 8 hours of time. The table below provides the necessary information about the possible project crashing. (a) What is the crash cost for 8 hours of time-savings? (b) Assume the team calls the client and asks for a project extension, reducing the amount of time they need to crash. The project team has a $20 crash budget. Is the budget sufficient to crash 4 hours of time? Activity Normal Duration (hours) Normal Cost ($) Crash Duration (hours) Crash Cost (S) Immediate Predecessors A 2 10 2 0 None B 3 15 2 23 A C 5 25 4 30 B D 3 20 1 24 C E 6 30 4 45 C F 1 5 1 0 E G 7 35 6 50 F H 10 50 7 80 D, G

A large Southeast city is requesting federal funding for a park-and-ride project. One of the requirements in the request application is a network plan for the design phase of the project. Sophie Kim, the chief engineer, wants you to develop a project network plan to meet this requirement. She has gathered the activity time estimates and their dependencies shown here. Description Survey Soils report C Traffic design D Lot layout E Approve design Illumination G Drainage H Landscape I Signage J Bid proposal ID A B The project is expected to take The critical path is: Early start for Activity E is: Late finish for Activity F is: Slack for Activity C is: Predecessor None A A A B, C, D E E E E F, G, H, I Time (days) 13 22 21 a 9 74 20 20 22 17 15 12 days. day(s).

The table below contains data for the installation of new equipment in a manufacturing process a Excello Corporation. Your company is responsible for the installation project. Indirect costs are $10,000 per week, and a penalty cost of $9,000 per week will be incurred by your company for every week the project is delayed beyond week12. Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) ABCDEFG long dash- long dash- ABCDEFG A B C D, E E Normal Time Crash Time Normal Cost Crash Cost (weeks) (weeks) ($) ($) 1 14,000 2 3,000 1 40,000 3 22,000 1 8,000 4 13,000 2 16,000 3234 1 6 63 7,000 3,000 12,000 12,000 8,000 5,000 9,000 a. What is the shortest time duration for this project regardless of cost? (Enter your response as a whole number.) b. What is the minimum total cost associated with completing the project in 12 weeks? C. What is the total time of the minimum cost schedule? (enter your response as whole numbers). The total project's duration according to minimum cost schedule is? The minimum cost schedule…

1 Cara's clients, Emily and Dave, have just had a baby and she would like to do something nice for them. She signs them up for a baby registry that sends them a small gift. Emily and Dave will be sent information and service lists that are geared toward helping new parents. She provided their names, address and phone numbers so that they will not miss any of the activities provided in the package. Has Cara dealt with her clients appropriately? NUYLOTNQhObm1bEVKUTO90 a0 Cara did not protect her clients' privacy when she shared their personal information with the baby registry. O Cara should not make this a regular practice. Her clients will begin to expect gifts and she will not be able to sustain this. CO Cara should have set up an appointment to re-evaluate her clients' needs now that they have had a baby. 40 Cara's gift is very thoughtful and will help to build a relationship with her clients. NUTYks10TNRUQ2h0bmkbEVKUTO90

Kim-Jae is a sales associate who receives escrow funds on Monday. She gives them to her broker on Tuesday. If her broker deposits the funds on the following Monday, did she meet the required timeline? Yes, the broker deposited the funds within the correct time frame. No, the broker should have deposited the funds by Thursday. No, the broker should have deposited the funds by Wednesday. No, the broker should have deposited the funds by Friday.

Suppose that a task in a project has the following time​ estimates:   to=optimistic completion time=9 weeks tm=most likely completion time=17 weeks tp=pessimistic completion time=21 weeks   Compute the expected task completion time.   The expected task completion time is _________  weeks. ​(Enter your response rounded to one decimal​ place.)

A mortgage service office has the following four activities involved in approving a loan application. Note that a working day is 8 hours and there are 60 minutes in one hour. Activity Time (minutes) A. Property survey 24 B. Credit report 19 C. Title search 18 D. Final decision 20 The office has three employees, activities A, B and C are combined together and assigned to two employees, while the other employee is responsible for the last activity D. Under this setting, what would be the maximum number of loan applications the office can process per day? Numbers only, keep three decimals if not exact, either round up or down is ok

Draw the network diagram for the whole project (with AoN Activity on Node) x=optimistic time y=pessimistic time m=probable time

What feature of manufacturing planning and control systems operates under the premise that the planned work input to a workcenter should never exceed the planned work output?

A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) identifies deliverables, activities, and tasks. Which statement describes a task?

Ed is planning to build a treehouse as a present for his son's upcoming 10th birthday. The details for each task are as follows: DE F G AD C,E F 12 Task A B Preceding Task Duration (day) | 12 A B 10 12 5 Cost (RM) 50 140 120 60 70 80 60 (a) Obtain the following: • The number of days it will take for Ed to finish building the treehouse. • Which tasks are cannot be delayed at all without delaying the whole project. • The total cost of building the treehouse. (b) Due to illness, Ed has to begin building the treehouse later than planned. He reckons that he must reduce the build duration by 3 days to complete the treehouse by his son's birthday. He has determined the crash cost and crash time for each task as follows: Task А В С DE F G Crash Time (day) | 12 8 9 8 10 5 6 Crash Cost (RM) | 50 170 180 70 95 80 60 Obtain the following: • All tasks that are crashed and by how much. • The new total cost for building the treehouse.

Baha is a professional Chemical Engineer. He has been appointed as the department manager for an upcoming large chemical process plant that will be designed and constructed by the organization that he is currently attached to. Baha's responsibilities will include organizing the process unit staff and overseeing the project designers' sketch plans to ensure that the new plant will be designed safely, operable and maintainable. After the construction, he will then be responsible to start up the plant. From experience, Baha noted that a new type of valve sold by a newer supplier could be used in place of more common gate valves sold by established suppliers. In any case, the new valve was less expensive and often gave a tighter shut-off than the current gate valve used by his organization. Thus, Baha convinced the project designers to add more of these new valves to the design of the process unit. His decision improved safety because more flows could be shut off instantaneously in an…

A Company wants to execute a project within 95 weeks. This project includes 10 activities (labeled A, B, ..., J), where their precedence relationships are shown in the following table: Predecessor Normal Crash Normal Cost Crash Cost Activity Activity Time(weeks) Time(weeks) (in million S) (in million S) A 32 28 160 180 В 28 25 125 146 C A 36 31 170 210 D B 16 13 60 72 E 32 27 135 160 B 54 47 215 257 D 17 15 90 96 H E,G 20 17 120 132 E,G 34 30 190 226 F.C 18 16 80 84 a) Draw the project network according to the previous table. (b)Find all possible paths and the corresponding lengths to finish the project. (c) Which is the critical path and what is its length? (d) Determine the least expensive way to crash activities to reduce overall duration to 95 weeks using Marginal cost analysis.

Analyze which type of project termination is this:i. Completing a bridge constructionii. Completing an extra building construction of a collegeiii. Opening a new department of an universityiv. Stopping a project due to lack of budget

What are the benefits of using flowcharts as part of the requirement model in project management.