Unit 04: Project Planning and Management

Lecture slides and video

IS-Dev Project Gantt Example

1. Which of the four phases of the project management process do you feel is most challenging?  Why?
2. What are sources of risk in a system analysis and design project?  How does a project manager cope with risk during the stages of project management?
3. A project has been defined to contain the following list of activities along with their required times for completion:

Activity No.	Activity	Time in Weeks	Predecessors
1	Collect requirements	3
2	Analyze processes	2
3	Analyze data	2	1
4	Design processes	6	2
5	Design data	3	3
6	Design screens	2	3, 4
7	Design reports	4	4, 5
8	Program	5	6, 7
9	Test and document	7	7
10	Install	2	8, 9

3.A Draw a network diagram for the activities

3.B Calculate the earliest expected completion time

3.C Show the critical path

3.D What would happen if activity 6 were revised to take six weeks instead of two weeks?

3.E Construct a GANTT chart for the project (with tasks as specified in the table above)

3.F Look again at the activities and create a new diagram that is updated to reflect the following: Your team is in first week of the project and has discovered that each of the activity duration estimates is wrong. Activity 2 will take only one week to complete. Activities 4 and 7 will each take three times longer than anticipated. All other activities will take twice as long to complete as previously estimated. In addition, a new activity number 11 called “Stabilization”  has been added. It will take one week to complete, and its immediate predecessors are activities 10 and 9. Adjust the network diagram and recalculate the earliest expected completion times.

Which of the four phases of the project management process do you feel is most challenging?  Why?

What are sources of risk in a system analysis and design project?  How does a project manager cope with risk during the stages of project management?

A project has been defined to contain the following list of activities along with their required times for completion:

Activity No.	Activity	Time in Weeks	Predecessors
1	Collect requirements	3
2	Analyze processes	2
3	Analyze data	2	1
4	Design processes	6	2
5	Design data	3	3
6	Design screens	2	3, 4
7	Design reports	4	4, 5
8	Program	5	6, 7
9	Test and document	7	7
10	Install	2	8, 9

Using Visio and/or Project, (contact Nishit Derade tuk05160@temple.edu for help obtaining and/or installing) or any other drawing tool of your choosing, create a PDF and upload to Canvas in Assignment Unit#4.3 with the following:

3.A Draw a network diagram for the activities

3.B Calculate the earliest expected completion time

3.C Show the critical path

3.D What would happen if activity 6 were revised to take six weeks instead of two weeks?

3.E Construct a GANTT chart for the project (with tasks as specified in the table above)

3.F Look again at the activities and create a new diagram that is updated to reflect the following: Your team is in first week of the project and has discovered that each of the activity duration estimates is wrong. Activity 2 will take only one week to complete. Activities 4 and 7 will each take three times longer than anticipated. All other activities will take twice as long to complete as previously estimated. In addition, a new activity number 11 called “Stabilization”  has been added. It will take one week to complete, and its immediate predecessors are activities 10 and 9. Adjust the network diagram and recalculate the earliest expected completion times.

(Be sure to put your name at the top left hand corner of your Assignment 3 document and add the title to the document “Unit#4 Question 3”. Name the file Unit#4-Question3_YourName.pdf and upload to Canvas.)