Managing Rockfest

Managing Hard Rock’s Rockfest

A). The critical path for a project is the sequence of tasks with the longest continuous duration (no slack). For the Hard Rock Café Rockfest project, the critical path is A-D-E-F-G-O, and is planned duration of 34 weeks for the project completion time.

B). The tasks that have more than 8 weeks slack time. Task P (travel accommodations for talent), task J (travel accommodations for talent), task M(on site ticketing), and task X (power, plumbing, AC, toilet services) are activities that could take 8 weeks or more of slack time. Also since there are a lot of activities that are not linked it is difficult to predict additional activities that are performed in 8 weeks slack time.

C). Major challenges a project manager faces in a project like Rockfest would be: To lead the people and organizations assigned to the project at any given point in time, to keep in touch with each person responsible for major activities, to complete the project on schedule and within costs, last minutes surprises, to monitor performance, costs and efficiency of all elements of the project and the project as a whole. In overall the project manager needs to plan systematically all aspects of the project, and solicit active involvement from all functional areas involved, in order to obtain and maintain a realistic plan that satisfies their commitment I the project.

D). The work breakdown structure is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project. Since many projects involve many people and many different deliverables, it is important to organize and divide the work into logical sections based on how the work will be performed. (Heizer & Render 2011)

The work breakdown structure would be like this in my opinion:

Level 2 “Major tasks in the project” (Heizer & Render 2011) – Those would be hire a production manager, set TV deal, hire a director, finalize site and building contracts, hire...