Bayside Financial At Bayside Financial, where you work as a project manager, you have been asked to conduct user training sessions for a new information system. You must develop a specific schedule for the tasks (the estimated task duration for each is shown in parentheses): 

  

• First, confirm arrangements for the training facility you plan to use (3 days). 

  

• After you have confirmed the training facility, two tasks can begin at the same time: you need to send an e-mail message to all department managers announcing the training sessions (1 day) and you can develop the training material (5 days).

  

 • As soon as the training material is complete, you can work on two tasks at once: arrange to have copies of handout material printed (2 days) and develop a set of PowerPoint slides (5 days). 

  

• When the PowerPoint slides are ready, you conduct a practice training session with the instructor who will assist you (2 days). 

  

• Finally, when the practice session is over and the handout material is ready, you can conduct the user training sessions (4 days). 

  

Tasks 

  

1. Prepare a list showing all tasks and their durations.

  

 2. Analyze the fact situation carefully to determine which tasks are concurrent and which ones are dependent on other tasks. 

  

3. Create a PERT chart that shows the project. Use a format similar to Figure 3-27 on page 110. If project management software is available, use it to develop the chart.

  

 4. What is the critical path for this project? How do you know?

     

 

Assign Tasks Programming Program Test System Test Start: Day 2 ID: 2 Start: Day 6 ID: 4 Start: Day 78 ID:6 Start: Day 106ID: 9 Finish: Day 5 Dur: 4 Finish: Day 75 Dur: 70 Finish: Day 106 Dur: 30 Finish: Day 130 Dur: 25 Develop Plan User Test Start: Day 1 Finish: Day 1 Dur: 1 Write User Manual Start: Day 131 ID: 11 ID: 1 Finish: Day 155 Dur: 25 Start: Day 29 ID: 7 Finish: Day 53 Dur: 25 Obtain Hardware Install Hardware User Training Start: Day 2 ID:3 Start: Day 19 ID:5 Start: Day 54 ID: 10 Finish: Day 18 Dur: 17 Finish: Day 28 Dur: 10 Convert Files Finish: Day 73 Dur: 20 Start: Day 29 ID: 8 Finish: Day 48 Dur: 20 FIGURE 3-27 To complete the PERTICPM chart, you apply the guidelines explained in this section. For example, Task I has a one-day duration, so you enter the start and finish for Task I as Day 1.Then you enter Day 2 as the start for successor Tasks 2 and 3. O Cangage Leaming 2014