MS Project Exercise:

The start of the project is 1997/05/06. Set the environment to: 40-hour week, 5 working days per week, and the working day starts at 9 am. Account for any nonworking times and Public Holidays, as applicable to NSW.

Question: (a). View the Resource Graph and note any over-allocations. Generate a report for each of the resources concerned, to clearly show over-allocations. If a particular resource is not showing any over-allocations, make sure to identify them in the report as such.

(b) . Investigate appropriate levelling options (e.g. MS Project default options, bringing in additional resources, working overtime) under each of the two scenarios: (i) time-constrained and (ii) resource-constrained. Note their effects on the project duration and cost? Produce Gantt Charts after levelling for each case to include in report.

ID Task Name Precedence Resources 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Architectural decisions Hardware specifications Kernel specifications Utilities specifications Hardware design Disk drives Memory management Operating system documentation Routine utilities Complex utilities Utilities documentation Hardware documentation Integration first phase Prototypes Serial I/O drivers System hard/software test Order circuit boards Network interface Shell Project documentation Assemble preproduction models Integrated acceptance testing Duration (days) 25 50 20 15 70 100 90 25 60 80 20 30 50 80 130 25 5 60 60 50 30 60 Design 1 Development, Design 1 Design 1 Development, Design 2 Development, Design 3 Assembly, Development 3 Development 3 Design, Documentation 4 Development 4 Development 4 Design, Documentation 5 Design, Documentation 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Assembly, Development 13 Assembly, Development 13 Development 14,15 Assembly 16 Purchasing 16 Development 16 Development 16 Development, Documentation 17F-S, lag 50 days Assembly, Development 18, 19, 20, 21 Assembly, Development Resource Availability Resource Design staff Development staff Documentation staff Assembly/test staff Purchasing staff Project Infrastructure (overhead costs) #consider any overtime penalty rate as 50% Abbreviation Design Development Documentation Assembly Purchasing Overheads Availability 3 teams 3 teams 1 team 1 team 1 team 1 unit Standard Rate $120/hour $80/hour $60/hour $60/hour $50/hour $20/hour