Raytheon has hired you to work in their new military hardware division made you project manager for the design of a new surveillance device. You have already examined project requirements and created a list of the work breakdown structure. You stayed late at Raytheon to identify the major project activities. Your boss is a control freak and she wants to see the project schedule tomorrow morning. You must plan the project schedule and calculate project duration. Looks like another late night! You have created a great table which includes the activities duration of each activity. the dependencies between the activites . You slapped yourself on the forehead when you forgot that the preceding activity must be fully completed before work on the following activity can be started. You have divided the "Watch 'em"project into five major subprojects. 1. Subproject P involves developing specifications for the new surveillance device. Here decisions related to such things as battery life, size of the device, and features need to be made. These details are based on how the military will use the device. 2. These user specifications are redefined in terms that have meaning to the subcontractors that will actually make the surveillance device in subproject S supplier specifications. These involve engineering details for how the product will perform. 3. The individual components that make up the product are the focus of subproject D. 4. Subproject l brings all the components together, and a working prototype is built and tested. 5. Finally in subproject V, vendors are selected and contracts are negotiated. Table 1: Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the "Watch em" Design Project Table 1: Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the "Watch em" Design Project ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION DEPENDENCY DURATION (WEEKS) P1 1 MAJOR SUBPROJECTS/ACTIVITIES Product Specifications (P) Market research Overall product specifications Hardware Software Supplier specifications (S) P2 P1 3 P3 P4 P2 P3 3 3 s1 S2 P4 P4 3 5 D1 D2 D3 D4 si si si D1, D2, D3 1 1 1 3 Hardware Software Product design (D) Battery Display Camera Outer cover Product integration (I) Hardware User interface Software coding Prototype testing Subcontracting (V) Vendor selection Contract negotiation 11 12 I3 14 D4 D2 12 11, 13 si ,S2 V1 V2 14, Vi a. What is the minimum number of weeks for completing Watch 'em. Minimum number of weeks b. General Mukherji informed your supervisor that he would like you to study the impact of making changes to how the project is organized. The first change involves using dedicated teams that would work strictly in parallel on the activities in each subproject. For example, in subproject P (product specifications) the team would work on P1, P2, P3, and P4 all in parallel. In other words, there would be no precedence relationships within a subproject-all tasks within a subproject would be worked on at the same time and each would take the same amount of time as originally specified. With this new design, all the subprojects would be done sequentially with P done first, then S, D, I, and finally V. What would be the expected impact on how long it would take to complete the project if this change were made? The duration of the project will to weeks. Raytheon has hired you to work in their new military hardware division made you project manager for the design of a new surveillance device. You have already examined project requirements and created a list of the work breakdown structure. You stayed late at Raytheon to identify the major project activities. Your boss is a control freak and she wants to see the project schedule tomorrow morning. You must plan the project schedule and calculate project duration. Looks like another late night! You have created a great table which includes the activities duration of each activity. the dependencies between the activites . You slapped yourself on the forehead when you forgot that the preceding activity must be fully completed before work on the following activity can be started. You have divided the "Watch 'em"project into five major subprojects. 1. Subproject P involves developing specifications for the new surveillance device. Here decisions related to such things as battery life, size of the device, and features need to be made. These details are based on how the military will use the device. 2. These user specifications are redefined in terms that have meaning to the subcontractors that will actually make the surveillance device in subproject S supplier specifications. These involve engineering details for how the product will perform. 3. The individual components that make up the product are the focus of subproject D. 4. Subproject l brings all the components together, and a working prototype is built and tested. 5. Finally in subproject V, vendors are selected and contracts are negotiated. Table 1: Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the "Watch em" Design Project Table 1: Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the "Watch em" Design Project ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION DEPENDENCY DURATION (WEEKS) P1 1 MAJOR SUBPROJECTS/ACTIVITIES Product Specifications (P) Market research Overall product specifications Hardware Software Supplier specifications (S) P2 P1 3 P3 P4 P2 P3 3 3 s1 S2 P4 P4 3 5 D1 D2 D3 D4 si si si D1, D2, D3 1 1 1 3 Hardware Software Product design (D) Battery Display Camera Outer cover Product integration (I) Hardware User interface Software coding Prototype testing Subcontracting (V) Vendor selection Contract negotiation 11 12 I3 14 D4 D2 12 11, 13 si ,S2 V1 V2 14, Vi a. What is the minimum number of weeks for completing Watch 'em. Minimum number of weeks b. General Mukherji informed your supervisor that he would like you to study the impact of making changes to how the project is organized. The first change involves using dedicated teams that would work strictly in parallel on the activities in each subproject. For example, in subproject P (product specifications) the team would work on P1, P2, P3, and P4 all in parallel. In other words, there would be no precedence relationships within a subproject-all tasks within a subproject would be worked on at the same time and each would take the same amount of time as originally specified. With this new design, all the subprojects would be done sequentially with P done first, then S, D, I, and finally V. What would be the expected impact on how long it would take to complete the project if this change were made? The duration of the project will to weeks