A&D High Tech

Background of A&D High Tech

 A&D high-tech sell computer products and accessories to

consumers and small businesses.  Development of the company‟s online store in 2002 as the company is loosing a competitive advantage without it  Chris Johnson: strong experience as project manager  Key factors:

 Very short notice for project undertaking

 Choice of “build” option for the platform

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Procedure for the MS project input

 1) Write down the tasks

 2)Insert predecessors and constraints

 3) Insert resources (material + human resources)  4) Output the data

Task inputting

Inputting constraints Gantt Chart 2 Project and Portfolio Management

Project completion figures

 From MS project (ignoring the sunk costs):

 The project is due to finish on the 19/12/2014 if starting on

the 14/09/2012 for a total duration of 591 working days.  Total project cost: $3,838,120

 Labor Costs:$3,739,620  Capital Costs: $98,500

• $36,000 for the workstations (12) • $62,500 for the servers (5)

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Critical Path

Duration of Critical path = 164 Days

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Risk Assessment

 Approach :  Focus on the Critical Tasks  Check if resources are fully allocated – this is a risk

situation  Check for Tasks with multiple predecessors – higher the task dependency, higher the risk  Check for longer tasks with multiple resources – these have maximum probability of going off the estimate

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Risk Assessment

 Task Ids 16,26,20,54 have high dependency, these are high risk items and need

to be watched  Tasks Ids 54,55,57,58 & 59 depend on multiple resources and have high risk  Nearly 50% of critical tasks have high dependency on other resources or tasks, hence level of risk in the project is moderate to high

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Potential of Project to Complete on time

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