1. Vanderfield Financial Case Study Vanderfield Financial provides financial advice and service to high-net-worth individuals. They are setting up a new office on the 15^th floor of Virginia Tower in St. Johns. This new office will have 150 employees, and have 2 large conference rooms, a training center consisting of 2 classrooms, and 5 meeting rooms of various sizes. A server room and a separate wiring closet will also be located in the office to house servers and necessary network equipment. You are hired as the IT manager and have a staff of 2 IT support personnel. You also have a budget to hire temporary staff if necessary. You and your team are responsible for the network cabling for the new office, as well as the procurement and installation of all computers and network equipment, including network switches, routers, servers, printers, and Wi-Fi access points. Robert Johnson, the project manager for the setup of the new office has asked you for estimates for the work required of you and your team. He also indicates that the office will be ready for you to start your work on April 1. You provide the following estimates, based on the capacity of your team of 2 employees working regular hours:
   1. Installation of network racks in wiring closet and server room: 1 day
   2. Network cabling: 8 days
   3. Server setup: 2 days
   4. Wi-Fi access point setup: 2 days
   5. Unboxing and setup of printers: 2 days
   6. Unboxing and setup of computers at user cubicles and offices: 9 days
   7. Unboxing and setup of computers in classrooms and meeting rooms: 2 days

Robert produces the following timeline and says it is too long, and that office staff will be moving in on May 3, and that you need to meet that deadline. What do you propose to do, in order to meet Roberts deadline? Use at least 2 standard project management techniques for duration compression. Roberts timeline based on your estimates, factoring in 1 holiday (Good Friday, April 2) is presented here:

1. Installation of network racks: April 1
2. Network cabling: April 5-14
3. Server setup: April 15-16
4. Wi-Fi access point setup: April 19-20
5. Printer setup: April 21-22
6. Computer setup at user cubicles: April 23-May 5
7. Computer setup in classrooms and meeting rooms: May 6-7