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Assignment Paper

Submitted by: Aminah Mills

Submitted to: Dr. Jimmie Flores

MGT613 Operations Management

Week 2

Spring Term II – 2016

March 20, 2016

Hard Rock Café’s Rock Fest is the company’s largest event that they put on annually. Rock Fest is a thirteen-hour rock concert that is attended by over 100,000 fans. The planning starts nine months before concert day. This nine-month plan includes technology like Microsoft Project, a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, that is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. This software, teamwork, and the leadership skills of the project manager make this a successful event each and every year.

The critical path for the Rock Fest is start with site selection, selecting the local promoter, development of website, solidifying a TV deal, hiring of a director with camera placement and pass/stage credentials. (Heizer, Render, 2011, p.97) The activity flow for this particular event had a thirty-four-week timeline that would be in the order of A-B-D-E-F-G-O. all of these activities were critical to the even and did not allow for slack or delay. They all had to be done with in the timeline allotted. The two activities that take the longest time are finalizing the site & building contracts and passes & stage credentials that would take seven weeks. The other activities have timelines ranging from three to six weeks.

Activities C, K, L, M, N, Q, R, V, W, Y, and Z have slacks of

8 or more weeks. Truly understanding slack project managers would be able to understand the length of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the entire project. There are probably many activities during the Rock Fest project that had Chris Tomasso felt he could delay for a longer period of time without affecting the project. One of those...