Nt1310 Project Management Assignment
Project management assignment
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1.0 Introduction
The essay discusses basic prices of project management. The first part tackles the initial technical aspect of project planning where scheduling is done to determined logical flow of activities. At this stage, a critical path is determined and project is visualised using Gantt chart and network diagram. Importance of network diagrams is also discussed. The second case discusses general skills and competencies that are needed to successful project management. A range of skills are classified by various authors. In this article, skills that are discussed include technical, communication, people management, and leadership and motivation skills. …show more content…
This was calculated by calculating the time of all possible critical paths and taking the shortest. A project could have more than one critical path on basis that it carries activities from beginning to the end. The time of all critical activities was carried added to the beginning date (9 May 2011), excluding weekends.
2.6 Effect of the duration of the project if the following happened:
a) If P delayed by 1 day: This would not affect duration of the project, it is not a critical activity. The slack time is not zero in this and therefore has no effect on duration of the project duration or completion date.
b) If activity Q is delayed 1 day, the project duration would also not be delayed. Also, Q is not a critical activity considering that its ES≠LS and EF≠LF. ES-LS and EF-LF=1, hence not a critical path because of the one day float.
c) A 2 day delay during activity M would not affect the duration of the project. ES≠LS and EF≠LF. ES-LS and EF-LF=2, which means the activity has a float of 2 days which means the project can be delayed by this duration without affecting the schedule of completion …show more content…
However, depending in the goal to be achieved, it is also one of the most challenging but which need to be managed effectively if it is to succeed. The reason why projects become imperative in any organisation is because an organisation has basic roles such as maintaining profitability and customer relationships which must be maintained while at the same time, they have to change or undertake new frontiers to enhance the stated and other objectives. Hence, there is need to balance all these parallel tasks effectively (Grande-Bretagne,
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction
The essay discusses basic prices of project management. The first part tackles the initial technical aspect of project planning where scheduling is done to determined logical flow of activities. At this stage, a critical path is determined and project is visualised using Gantt chart and network diagram. Importance of network diagrams is also discussed. The second case discusses general skills and competencies that are needed to successful project management. A range of skills are classified by various authors. In this article, skills that are discussed include technical, communication, people management, and leadership and motivation skills. …show more content…
This was calculated by calculating the time of all possible critical paths and taking the shortest. A project could have more than one critical path on basis that it carries activities from beginning to the end. The time of all critical activities was carried added to the beginning date (9 May 2011), excluding weekends.
2.6 Effect of the duration of the project if the following happened:
a) If P delayed by 1 day: This would not affect duration of the project, it is not a critical activity. The slack time is not zero in this and therefore has no effect on duration of the project duration or completion date.
b) If activity Q is delayed 1 day, the project duration would also not be delayed. Also, Q is not a critical activity considering that its ES≠LS and EF≠LF. ES-LS and EF-LF=1, hence not a critical path because of the one day float.
c) A 2 day delay during activity M would not affect the duration of the project. ES≠LS and EF≠LF. ES-LS and EF-LF=2, which means the activity has a float of 2 days which means the project can be delayed by this duration without affecting the schedule of completion …show more content…
However, depending in the goal to be achieved, it is also one of the most challenging but which need to be managed effectively if it is to succeed. The reason why projects become imperative in any organisation is because an organisation has basic roles such as maintaining profitability and customer relationships which must be maintained while at the same time, they have to change or undertake new frontiers to enhance the stated and other objectives. Hence, there is need to balance all these parallel tasks effectively (Grande-Bretagne,