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1. Produce programmes for low complexity projects using appropriate manual techniques.

2. Use project planning software to generate master programmes for simple construction or design projects.

Assignment Objective

-Apply the sets of skills and knowledge that was accumulated to demonstrate his/her ability in preparing a reasonable plan for a project

-Produce master programmes for low complexity projects by using MS project software and manual techniques.

Assignment Tasks

The following project case is exercise that can be solved individually. In the project, students will have hands-on experience in developing an integrated framework for the planning, scheduling, resource management, and project costs.

Data:

In the following project (Figure 1), a one story residential house is to be constructed. The objective is to prepare a realistic bid and prepare complete plan. Your resource bank involves crews, material, and subcontractor resources are given in the attached “ASSESSMENT 1-Data_SPRING 2020” Excel sheet. List of project activities, durations, logical relationships, and list of required resources are given in Table 1. On the other hand, crews’ data, materials data, and subcontractors’ data are given in Table2, Table3, and Table 4 respectively.

Note: Here should be “Figure 1” diagram, I’ve uploaded inside file named “Figure 1”.

Requirements:

The fundamental aim of this assignment is to allow students to apply the sets of skills and knowledge that was accumulated to demonstrate his ability in preparing a reasonable plan for a project through:

1. Construct Gantt chart and Activity on Node networks manually and use Microsoft Project to construct both of them (after changing the default format) with detailed discussion.

2. Present and discuss the scheduling output (e.g. project duration, critical path, critical tasks (change the format of the critical tasks), activities times (ES, EF, LS, LF) and floats (TF, FF). Also, increase the duration of two activities (e.g. activity # 6 and activity # 10) by 12 days and inspect what is the new project duration (with printing of Gantt chart).

3. Evaluate the project duration in the following cases, by showing all required calculations:

– The duration of activity 26 (Window Installation Activity) increased by 60%

– The duration of activity 12 (Back Fill Activity) is doubled

– The duration of activity 19, 20 and 21 is increased by 10 days

– Apply a “Finish No Earlier Than” constraint with a constraint date of 30-August-2020 to task 11

4. Discuss and draw the resources (crews/manpower, materials, and subcontractors) profiles (histogram) that are needed to accomplish the work (three histograms for each resource).

5. Discuss and estimate project cost (according to given data), print the cash flow report (Visual Report) and draw the project cost curves.

6. Suggest the procedure to reduce the duration of the project by 25% and use Microsoft Project to construct the Gantt chart after reducing project duration.

7. As a project Manager, what options you have if your one of team members is having difficulty in estimating time that it may take to complete the work?

8. If you were asked to manage several small projects at the same time, what are the most important factors that you should consider as you develop your plan and schedule?

Notes:

 The project start date must be 7th June, 2020.

 Customize the project calendar as only Friday and Saturday are non-working days per week, and 8 working hours per day.

 Add holidays as follows:

-Oman National Day on 18th Nov.

-Labor Day on 1st May.

-Briefly write the procedures for each operation.

-Any missing data can be reasonably assumed.

Please keep in mind following facts while writing your report:

The report is often used to present, analyze and summarize your data.

You will find in the following some basic instructions on how to prepare the report.

Report Structure:

The Report should contain the following sections:

-Introduction

-Discussion

-Conclusions

-References

1. Introduction

-Summarize the brief history and theory on that topic.

-Outline the case and focus on its significance (problem statement).

-Introduce the project

-How has the work been done?

-Give the general plan of the report.

2. Discussion

-Assumption (calendars, system, etc.) and the constraints if any.

-The work breakdown structures.

-The required resources (materials, crews, subcontractors.) histograms.

-Project scheduling and cost analysis.

-The output of the Microsoft Project (Bar chart, Network view, etc.)

-Manual calculations

-Discussion

3. Conclusions

-State briefly what are the major achievements of your work?

4. References

5. Appendix

-For any additional figures, tables, and photos

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Moreover, the other principle celebration celebrate by Chinese culture is Mid-Autumn Festival. It is falls on the fifteenth of August in Lunar schedule each year; the moon shows up in the most splendid and roundest condition at that night. In Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival is likewise the significance of round moon and individuals rejoin. The splendid round moon speaks to family get-together.

Other than that, there is a fantasy which lead everybody conviction to commend this Mid-Autumn Festival. As indicated by the legend, there was ten suns rose together in one day. Be that as it may, it makes horrendous calamity human, so as to spare the people there must be a saint. There was a saint name Hou Yi , he is an amazing bows and arrows and he has a spouse name Chang Er. At that point, Hou Yi was compensated an everlasting status sedate by god since he has effectively shot and crush the other 9 suns. Tragically Hou Yi would not like to live eternal without Chang Er, so didn’t eat the everlasting status medication and he request that his better half keep it. At some point, Hou Yi’s understudies name as Peng Meng realized the everlasting status drugs was kept in the house. In this manner, he went to Hou Yi’s home to take it and tragically Chang Er reject to give him and she gulped it and she traveled to the sky. She must choose between limited options to remain with her significant other, yet she decide to live in the moon, since it is the closest to his better half in earth. From that point forward, Hou Yi tragic and he showed the leafy foods consistently to give penance Chang Er. In this way, individuals learned it and showed all products of the soil cakes during fifteenth of eighth lunar month. (Wed Bai, 2012)

Moreover, Hari Raya Aidilfitri is one of the most significant celebrations that Malay Culture celebrates. It is known as imprint the finish of Ramadan, a month of fasting. The celebration is falls after the finish of month-long quick (Puasa) completed which is the first day in tenth month of Syawal. They accept that it is a day for Muslim to look for the pardoning from their loved ones part. For instance, a child will request pardoning from their folks for the errors that they have done the most recent year. Other than that, they will implores at the mosque and visit the precursor’s graves. (National Library Board Singapore, 2009)

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