Pom+ Project Part 1 Memo

POM+ Project Part 1 Memo

CMGT/575

January 29, 2017

Professor Gordon Hodgson

MEMORANDUM

TO:                Corporate Office

FROM:        Project Management Office

DATE:        January 29, 2017

SUBJECT:        POM+ Project for Big Kola

When is the project estimated to be completed?

        The project will take 135 days to complete, which begins on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, and ends Thursday, July 12, 2018. So, the estimated day of completion is July 12, 2018.

How many working days will it take?

        The project will take 135 days of effort to complete.

What is the critical path?

        The critical path is the longest path through the network, based on task duration, which defines the shortest amount of time in which the project can be completed. This project’s critical path is: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21.

Which activity has the most total slack?

The activity with the most total slack for this business venture is expected to be the amount of time and resources required between training sessions and also ensuring that the project is sufficiently staffed and supported by the most appropriate personnel for the various tasks which are based upon the WBS. The total slack for the training and education tasks is expected to exceed most other tasks. There is sufficient evidence that the QA/QC and Change Management processes will also present some total slack issues, so the idea is for the PM/PMO to pay close attention to the scheduling of continuity and change management, while simultaneously taking the education and training sessions into careful consideration to help reduce wasteful expenditures. Timing is going to be the key to success.

How sensitive is the network?

The network sensitivity is based on Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) because this is expected to support the ongoing productivity and scheduling tasks as they become more readily apparent. For the SRA to work properly, the network sensitivity approach must take into careful consideration the baseline schedule. This means that the network sensitivity is going to have the potential to be High, since the Agile methodology has to introduce and define the Critical Path Method (CPA), which might include multiple critical paths. The purpose for the SRA technique is to ensure that all scheduled tasks meet the requirements in a dynamic, “on-the-fly” approach to making the various sub-tasks commonly associated with the project to facilitate and to align properly with the organization’s collective expectations for the CPA. High sensitivity inside the network infrastructure is expected to play a pivotal role in support of the SRA approach, and to help with scheduling management which should, theoretically, aid in Continuity Management going forward. Proper usage of scheduling tools is expected to be a factor in the project’s success.