Topic: Hiring New Employees

Remind us of your project goals in 1-2 sentences.

As you review your WBS, are there tasks that can be completed concurrently or do they all need to be completed as serial activities?

How would you use Microsoft Project to display serial versus concurrent activities?

Explain at least one time and one resource constraint that could impact your project.

Project Schedule

Set the beginning date to your project to the current date and then add in the predecessors to each of the tasks. Note you do not need to put predecessors on the heading or groupings just the tasks where work is performed. You will see the dates will automatically update based on the durations that you populated from Unit 2.

The goal here is to allow project to automatically compute the project timeline and end date for you.

Critical Path

Now show the critical tasks in Microsoft Project.

In the Gantt chart view, set to show the Critical Path.

Summarize in a Word document what tasks are part of the critical path.

Resource Constraints/Leveling

Your project may or may not have resource constraints. A resource constraint would be called out by the red icon to the left of the task. This will commonly happen if you have multiple tasks occurring in the same timeframe, yet the assigned resources do not have enough time within that timeframe to complete the work.

Take a moment to write down the project end date and total duration.

Complete resource leveling by choosing Level all under the Resource tab

Did your project end date change? By how much? Offer a couple sentences within a Word document as to why the project end date did or did not change.