Project Management Assignment

MANCOSA:: MBA YEAR 2

COURSE AND ASSIIGNMENT HANDBOOK:: JJANUARY 2012 IINTAKE

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Question 2 (30) Fluor Igoda is planning to bid on a large project for the development of a new petrochemical plant in Cape Town. The table below shows the activities, times and sequences required:

ACTIVITY

IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR

DURATION

1

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3

2

1

2

3

1

5

4

1

4

5

2

3

6

3

2

7

4

8

8

5, 6

4

9

8

4

10

7

4

11

9, 10

7

2.1.1 Draw the network diagram (AON) showing the early start, late start, early finish and late finish times.

(20) 2.1.2 Determine the paths and show the critical path. (4) 2.1.3 What is the slack time of each activity. (6) Question 3 (10) What attributes should a project manager have? Can an individual be trained to become a project manager? If a company were changing over to a project management structure, would it be better to promote and train from within or hire from the outside? Question 4 (10) C. Ray Gullet (“Personnel Management in the Project Organization,” Personnel Administration/Public Personnel Review, November–December 1972, pp. 17–22) has identified five personnel problems. How would you, as a project manager, cope with each problem? Staffing levels are more variable in a project environment. Performance evaluation is more complex and more subject to error in a matrix form of organization. Wage and salary grades are more difficult to maintain under a matrix form of organization. Job descriptions are often of less value. Training and development are more complex and at the same time more necessary under a project form of organization. Morale problems are potentially greater in a matrix organization.

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