Task structure:

Hello,

Nice job with the task list! Now that you've outlined the tasks, you'll need to figure out the order of the tasks and relationships between each one. It is important to do this so that we can get this analysis and design done as quickly as possible.

As best you can, assign durations to these tasks. We have some historical data in the resource library. If you are uncertain about the time estimate, I find that it best to come up with a best, worst, and most likely time estimates. Then I add up the estimates (best + worst + (4 x most likely)) by giving more weight to the most likely and then divide by 6.

Please put all of this information into your preferred project management software package and share the file with me.

Thanks.

Carlie

Appliance Warehouse staffing

Parts Department purchasing, inventory control, sales

• Director: Maddox Farley
• Sales staff: Tyler Cummings, Steve Dawson, Amelia Warner
• Purchasing: Celia Martel, Joe Perez
• Inventory/warehouse: Ben Cooke, Melissa Benedict, Matt Jones

Appliance Sales sales of new appliances in 4 departments

• Director: Sonia Lopez

• Large Kitchen Appliance department: Mike Nelson (manager), Jessica Scott, Rachel Evans, Justin Cooper
• Laundry Appliance department: Tina Turner (manager), Mackenzie Scott, James Wright
• Audio/Visual department: Samantha Campbell (manager), Tim Reynolds, Tracey Oliver
• Small Appliance department: Peter Parker (manager), Ken Howell, Marti Castillo

Service Department

• Service Manager: Emily Johns
• Technicians: Liam Henson, Mark Robles, Lee Wong
• Appointment setters: Lisa Shields, Jake Meyers
• Equipment and parts: Rhonda Patel

Storewide Cashiers:

• Manager: Abby Franklin
• Cashiers: Nancy Richards, Joy Vasquez, David Goodman, Paul Patton, Maria Nunez

Administrative roles:

• Owner (store manager reports to this role): Mae Roth
• Store Manager (all department heads and assistant manager report to this role): Alan Marks
• Store Assistant Manager (admin roles report to this assistant manager): Ali Miranda
• Admin Assistant to store manager: Tim Stafford
• Human Resources specialist: Joey Booker
• Accounting, payroll, accounts payable/receivable: Doug Dorsey, Tia Carey
• IT department: Carlie Davis (manager), Tony Barlett, Meredith Parks, you

Analysis and Design task durations
Project name	Year	Task name	Duration
Accounts Payable	2018
		Interview process	5 days
		Development of User Questionnaire	2 days
		Identification of risks	1.5 days
		DFD diagram	4 days
		UML diagram	4 days
		Layout of 1 report	4 hours
		Layout of 1 user screen	2 hours
		Testing plan	5 days
		Implementation plan	3 days
Human Resources	2017
		Interview process	4 days
		Development of User Questionnaire	2 days
		Identification of risks	1 day
		DFD diagram	3.5 days
		UML diagram	2 days
		Layout of 1 report	2 hours
		Layout of 1 user screen	4 hours
		Testing plan	7 days
		Implementation plan	3 days
Payroll	2019
		Interview process	6 days
		Development of User Questionnaire	1 day
		Identification of risks	2 days
		DFD diagram	4.5 days
		UML diagram	5 days
		Layout of 1 report	1 day
		Layout of 1 user screen	4 hours
		Testing plan	5 days
		Implementation plan	3.5 days