Allocate the resources with the assigned constraints Create a baseline project Analyze crashing critical project tasks in order to shorten the duration of the porject and decrease the total cost.
Baseline Plan
Project duration (days) =
Total Project Cost =
Total number of work hours (project) =
| Description | Cost ($) |
| Direct labor | |
| Indirect | |
| Project Manager |
For each activity list the total number of work hours for each group and the total work hours.
| Activity | Duration(wks) | Engineering | Operation | Procurement | Marketing | Total |
| Select and order equipment | ||||||
| Receive Equipment | ||||||
| Install and set up equipment | ||||||
| Finalize bill of material | ||||||
| Order component parts | ||||||
| Receive component parts | ||||||
| first production run | ||||||
| Finalize marketing plan | ||||||
| Produce Magazine ads. | ||||||
| Script for TV ads. | ||||||
| Produce TV ads. | ||||||
| Begin ad campaign | ||||||
| Ship product to customers |
List all activities that were crashed to lower the project cost. Add additional rows to the table as needed
| Activity | Original Duration | Original Cost | Current Duration | Current Cost |
List all resources that are assigned to work less than four hours on a task
There shouldn’t be any
List all resources that are overloaded and explain why.
There could be some if crashing/overtime is used that decreases the fixed cost of the project more than it is increased by the variable labor costs.
