Whitbread World Sailboat Race Each year countries enter their sailing vessels in the ninemonth Round the World Whitbread Sailboat Race. In recent years about 14 countries entered sailboats in the race. Each year's sailboat entries represent the latest technologies and human skills each country can muster. Bjorn Ericksen has been selected as a project manager because of his past experience as a master helmsman and because of his recent fame as the \"best designer of racing sailboats in the world.\" Bjorn is pleased and proud to have the opportunity to design, build, test, and train the crew for next year's Whitbread entry for his country. Bjorn has picked Karin Knutsen (as chief design engineer) and Trygve Wallvik (as master helmsman) to be team leaders responsible for getting next year's entry ready for the traditional parade of all entries on the Thames River in the United Kingdom, which signals the start of the race. As Bjorn begins to think of a project plan, he sees two parallel paths running through the projectdesign and construction and crew training. Last year's boat will be used for training until the new entry can have the crew on board to learn maintenance tasks. Bjorn calls Karin and 'Ii'ygve together to develop a project plan. All three agree the major goal is to have a winning boat and crew ready to compete in next year's competition at a cost of $3.2 million. A check of Bjom's calendar indicates he has 45 weeks before next year's vessel must leave port for the United Kingdom to start the race. THE KICKOFF MEETING Bjom asks Karin to begin by describing the major activities and the sequence required to design, construct, and test the boat. Karin starts by noting that design of the hull, deck, mast, and accessories should only take 6 weeks 636 of 1257 given the design prints from past race entries and a few prints from other countries' entries. After the design is complete, the hull can be constructed, mast ordered, sails ordered, and accessories ordered. The hull will require 12 weeks to complete. The mast can be ordered and will require a lead time of 8 weeks; the seven sails can be ordered and will take 6 weeks to get; accessories can be ordered and will take 15 weeks to receive. As soon as the hull is nished, the ballast tanks can be installed, requiring 2 page346 weeks. Then the deck can be built, which will require 5 weeks. Concurrently the hull can be treated with special sealant and friction- resistance coating, taking 3 weeks. When the deck is completed and mast and accessories received, the mast and sails can be installed, requiring 2 weeks; the accessories can be installed, which will take 6 weeks. When all of these activities have been completed, the ship can be sea-tested, which should take 5 weeks. Karin believes she can have rm cost estimates for the boat in about 2 weeks. Trygve believes he can start selecting the 12-man or woman crew and securing their housing immediately. He believes it will take 6 weeks to get a committed crew on-site and 3 weeks to secure housing for the crew members. Trygve reminds Bjorn that last year's vessel must be ready to use for training the moment the crew is onsite until the new vessel is ready for testing. Keeping the old vessel operating will cost $4,000 per week as long as it is used. Once the crew is on-site and housed, they can develop and implement a routine sailing and maintenance training program, which will take 15 weeks (using the old vessel). Also, once the crew is selected and on- site, crew equipment can be selected, taking only 2 weeks. Then crew equipment can be ordered; it will take 5 weeks to arrive. When the crew equipment and maintenance training program are complete, crew maintenance on the new vessel can begin; this should take 10 weeks. But crew maintenance on the new vessel cannot begin until the deck is complete and the mast, sails, and accessories have arrived. Once crew maintenance on the new vessel begins, the new vessel will cost $6,000 per week until sea training is complete. After the new ship maintenance is complete and while 637 of 1257 12 pages left in this chapter the boat is being tested, initial sailing training can be implemented; training should take 7 weeks. Finally, after the boat is tested and initial training is complete, regular sea training can be implementedweather permitting; regular sea training requires 8 weeks. Trygve believes he can put the cost estimates together in a week, given last year's expenses. Bjorn is pleased with the expertise displayed by his team leaders. But he believes they need to have someone develop one of those critical path networks to see if they can safely meet the start deadline for the race. Karin and 'Iiygve agree. Karin suggests the cost estimates should also include crash costs for any activities that can be compressed and the resultant costs for crashing. Karin also suggests the team complete the priority matrix shown in Figure C9.1 for project decision making. FIGU RE 69.1 Project Priority Matrix: Whitbread Project page 347 TWO WEEKS LATER Karin and Trygve submit the following cost estimates for each activity and corresponding crash costs to Bjorn (costs are in thousands of dollars): 638 of 1257 AdMIy cm Slope A Design 6 $40 4 $160 60 B Build hull 12 1.000 10 1,400 200 C Install ballast 2 100 2 100 tanks D Order mast 8 100 7 140 40 E Order sails 6 40 6 40 F Order accessories 15 600 13 800 100 6 Build deck 5 200 5 200 H Coat hull 3 40 3 40 l Install accessories 6 300 5 400 100 J Install mast and 2 40 1 80 40 sails K lest 5 60 4 100 40 L Sea trials 8 200 7 450 250 M Select crew 6 10 5 20 10 N Secure housing 3 30 3 30 0 Select crew 2 10 Z 10 equipment P Order crew 5 3O 5 30 equipment 0 Routine salll 15 40 12 130 30 maintenance R Crew malnte 10 100 9 340 240 nance train 5 Initial sail training 7 50 5 350 150 Taiwan! $2.990 Bjorn reviews the materials and wonders if the project will come in within the budget of $3.2 million and in 45 weeks. Advise the Whitbread team of their situation. Nightingale ProjectPart A 639 of 1257 10 pages left in this chapter