project time management assignment requirementspart a create a project schedule 4

Assignment Requirements
Part A. Create a project schedule: (40 marks)
1. (20 marks) Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) for this project. This should be structured to show all activities required to meet to projects objectives including planning, delivering and concluding all related work and holiday events.
You can develop this WBS to whatever level of detail you require, however project reports in this assignment should show 50 to 75 items (ie. between 50 and 75 lines in the WBS of any report). Note that this is not a restriction on the level of detail for your planning but it is a restriction on the level of detail of your reporting.
2. (20 marks) Based on your WBS for the project, estimate the required resources and durations for the project activities.
Provide a Gantt Chart showing the plan for your project, including dependencies between the activities that comprise your project schedule and show the resources and the estimated durations of the components of your schedule.
In your Gantt Chart, clearly identify the start and end of the project and the dates planned for the work activities and any milestones that will need to be achieved to successfully manage the execution of the project. Show any date constraints and ensure that your schedule meets these.
Part B. Time planning & control: (20 marks)
1. (10 marks) The sequence of tasks in a project schedule is based on dependencies, which may be either hard/mandatory or soft/discretionary. Briefly describe these different types of dependencies and illustrate both of these with specific examples taken from your Part A project schedule.
As a guide, your answer should not be more than 200 words.
2. (10 marks) Explain an effort-driven task. Select an effort-driven tasks from your Part A.WBS. Describe how you estimated the duration of this task (including the method or technique used) and the basis for any assumptions made.
As a guide, your answer should not be more than 200 words.
Part C. Managing a Variation: (30 marks)
On the day before you were due to depart your first destination country in Europe, your plans are significantly disrupted. Your partner is robbed of a small amount of money and, more significantly, the passports, other than yours which you always carry separately. As a matter of urgency, you report the incident to the police and contact the embassy to arrange for replacement passports. Unfortunately, you discover, it takes a full 7 days for passports to be replaced.
Of course, in reality, emergency passports or travel papers could normally be sourced in much less time, however, for this assignment the 7 day delay is a mandatory constraint. Also, as a non-European national, you cannot cross national borders without carrying your passport or authorised travel papers.
You immediately make appropriate arrangements and reorganise your travel plans to manage these events. You have the option to arrange for an additional one week of leave to compensate for the disruption to the holiday.
1. (15 marks) Re-plan your holiday to include this variation, ensuring that you manage any significant risks associated with changing and extending the holiday.
Provide a Gantt Chart showing the revised WBS and schedule for the project (limited to 50 to 75 lines) and showing your progress on the project to date and clearly highlighting any changes to the planned activities.
2. (15 marks) Explain why you managed the change as you did and the effects of this change on the planned project, including additional project tasks and activities that have changed or are no longer required. Explain if and how you can still meet the objectives of your project within these new constraints on your holiday.
As a guide, this explanation should not be more than about 350 words.

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