MAN 4504 PROJECT 2 GUIDELINES
 
 
 

LAST UPDATED: Monday February 11, 2008 10:38:04 PM -0500

 

You need to bring a hard copy to class and email me as well.

Your paper should include the following:

  1. Page 1

    1. Title of paper

    2. Student Name

    3. Student course number and course name

    4. Semester and year

    5. Name of University

    6. Name of Professor - correctly spelled

    7. Visible digital photo of yourself

2.  Page 2 Table of contents

 

3.  Pages 3 - 5 Your answers to Problem Assigned ( it is up to you on how many pages you place your answers)

Paper should be

  1. Double spaced,

  2. Fonts: Times Roman or Ariel

  3. Font size: 12

  4. Font color : black

  5. Margins should be 1" either side

  6. Spell checked

  7. MS Word 2000 or XP

  8. Any other applications should be from the MS family

  9. CBA does not support Visio or WordPerfect

  10. Emailed by class time - and if necessary win zipped.

  11. A hard copy should be brought to class. 

  12.  Project 2 must be presented in ONE file and saved as "yourname.doc"

  13. Project 2 must have a color digital and visible photo of yourself

 

 

Project 2 Topic

A partially solved PERT problem is detailed in the table below. Times are given in weeks.  You need to show your work!

 

Activity

Preceding

Optimistic

Time

Probable

Time

Pessimistic

Time

Expected

Time

Variance

A

--

7

9

14

 

1.361

B

A

2

2

8

 

1.00

C

A

8

12

16

 

1.778

D

A

3

5

10

 

1.361

E

B

4

6

8

 

0.444

F

B

6

8

10

 

0.444

G

C, F

2

3

4

 

0.111

H

D

2

2

8

 

1.000

I

H

6

8

16

 

2.778

J

G, I

4

6

14

 

2.778

K

E, J

2

2

5

 

0.250

a.    Calculate the expected time for each activity. Enter these values in the appropriate column in the table above.

b.   Which activities form the critical path?

c.   What is the estimated time of the critical path?

d.  What are the project variance and the project standard deviation?