Joe has worked for BlanqueCheque Construction (BCC) for five years
Joe has worked for BlanqueCheque Construction (BCC) for five years, mainly in administrative
positions. Three months ago, he was informed that he was being transferred to the firm's project
management group. Joe was excited because he realized that project management was typically
the career path to the top in the BCC, and everyone had to demonstrate the ability to "get their
feet wet by successfully running projects.
Joe had just left a meeting with his superior, Jill, who assigned him project management
responsibilities for a new construction project the company had successfully bid. The project
consisted of developing a small commercial property that the owners hoped to turn into a strip
mall, directly across the street from a suburban college campus. The size of the property and
building costs made it prudent to develop the property for four stores of roughly equal size.
Beyond that desire, the owners make it clear to BCC that all project management associated with
developing the site was BCC's responsibility.
Joe sat in his office at BCC trying to develop a reasonable project plan, including laying out
some of the important project activities. At this point, he was content to stick with general levels
of activities; that is, he did not want to get too specific yet regarding the various construction
steps for developing the site.
Questions:
1. Develop a project network consisting of at least 20 steps that should be done to complete
the project. At the case suggest, keep the level of detail for these activities general, rather
than specific. Be sure to indicate some degree of precedence relationship among the
activities.
2. Suppose you now wanted to calculate duration estimates for these activities. How would
you make use of the following approaches? Are some more useful than others?
a. Expert opinion
b. Past history
c. Mathematical derivation
3. Joe was trying to decide which scheduling format to employ for his planning: AON or
AOA. What are some of the issues that Joe should first consider prior to choosing
between these methods?
Joe has worked for BlanqueCheque Construction (BCC) for five years, mainly in administrative
positions. Three months ago, he was informed that he was being transferred to the firm's project
management group. Joe was excited because he realized that project management was typically
the career path to the top in the BCC, and everyone had to demonstrate the ability to "get their
feet wet by successfully running projects.
Joe had just left a meeting with his superior, Jill, who assigned him project management
responsibilities for a new construction project the company had successfully bid. The project
consisted of developing a small commercial property that the owners hoped to turn into a strip
mall, directly across the street from a suburban college campus. The size of the property and
building costs made it prudent to develop the property for four stores of roughly equal size.
Beyond that desire, the owners make it clear to BCC that all project management associated with
developing the site was BCC's responsibility.
Joe sat in his office at BCC trying to develop a reasonable project plan, including laying out
some of the important project activities. At this point, he was content to stick with general levels
of activities; that is, he did not want to get too specific yet regarding the various construction
steps for developing the site.
Questions:
1. Develop a project network consisting of at least 20 steps that should be done to complete
the project. At the case suggest, keep the level of detail for these activities general, rather
than specific. Be sure to indicate some degree of precedence relationship among the
activities.
2. Suppose you now wanted to calculate duration estimates for these activities. How would
you make use of the following approaches? Are some more useful than others?
a. Expert opinion
b. Past history
c. Mathematical derivation
3. Joe was trying to decide which scheduling format to employ for his planning: AON or
AOA. What are some of the issues that Joe should first consider prior to choosing
between these methods?
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