MGT 506 Assignment 2 Chapter 8 CASE SCENARIO: SCHULTZ SCHOOL GRADUATION CEREMONY The Schulz School of Business Administration (SSBA) is planning its annual commencement ceremony, to be held in the university's indoor arena. The university has granted SSBA use of this facility for 6 hours starting at 11 a.m., just after the School of Engineering holds its commencement in the same arena. The SSBA events director has organized the SSBA commencement ceremony into 10 different tasks, which are described in the table below. Duration Immediate (hours) Predecessors Set up prestaging area in the downstairs gym 20 None Greet, register, and preseat students in prestaging area 1.0 A Greet, robe, and preseat faculty in the arena conference room 0.5 None = 8 ) Graduation crew to their places for processional 0.2 B, C Graduation coordinator addresses preseated students 03 B Form student processional column 0.1 Student processional column proceeds to auditorium entrance 0.2 T (@ (= |l [T 6 [ > Form faculty column and join the end of student column 0.1 Student and faculty columns proceed to seating in arena 0.2 Conferral of degrees and awards 1.5 At 5 p.m,, the end of SSBA's reserved time in the arena building, the School of Arts and Sciences expects to take over and start preparation for its commencement ceremony later that evening. Please answer the following four questions, based on this information. Questions . Draw a project network and identify the critical path through the SSBA graduation ceremony. 2. What is the slack associated with task C? What is the slack associated with task H? 3. SSBA will stream the processional (task I) and the ceremony (task J) live. The video crew wants to know when to expect live streaming to start. Assuming that SSBA is able to start work at 11 a.m., the beginning of their arena reservation, what should the events director tell the video crew about streaming? . The events director is worried that the School of Engineering will not start work on its ceremony early enough to finish by 5 p.m. Assuming that everything else goes as planned, by how much can the School of Engineering delay the start of SSBA's work, without then causing SSBA's ceremony to run past 5 p.m. and cause delays for the School of Arts and Sciences? CASE SCENARIO: CONVEX PRODUCTIONS v o Ty Convex Productions has just received a contract to film a commercial video that will air during a major sporting event in North America, and then be available on-demand through banner advertisements on the inter- net. For planning purposes, Convex Productions has decided to treat this contract like a PERT problem, and thus has provided the following data on the five major tasks that must be completed to film the commercial video: Optimistic Most Likely Pessimistic Immediate Time L) L) PO Predecessor(s) (days) (CED) (CED) Hire staff, cast 1 Record soundtrack 1 Film scenes A 1 Arrange publicity & distribution A 1 Edit film B C 1 Please answer the following three questions, based on this information. Questions 1. What is the expected completion time of this project? What is the critical path through this project? . What is the late start time of activity D, arranging publicity and distribution? . Convex Productions has agreed to start on this project immediately. If Convex Pro- ductions does not complete the project within 8 days of starting it, Convex loses a large financial bonus for prioritizing this particular project. What is the probability that Convex Productions will actually earn this bonus