Blue Zuma Project

Muhammad Faisal Mahmod (P55760) BLUE ZUMA PROJECT

UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & BUILD ENVIRONMENT

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MATERIAL ENGINEERING

ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT

KKKJ 6063

MICROSOFT PROJECT

“BLUE ZUMA PROJECT (PART 1 - 3)”

LECTURER

PROF. IR. DR. HAJI YUSOFF ALI

PREPARED BY

MUHAMMAD FAISAL MAHMOD

P55760

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Blue Zuma Project

The ARC Company specializes in developing and selling a wide range of

high-quality scooters. Sales representatives report that there is a growing

demand for racing scooters. ARC is a small company and uses a strong matrix to

optimally utilize limited manpower. The Project Priority Matrix for the Blue Zuma

Project is:

Time Scope CostConstrain xEnhanceAccept x x

PART 1

The project team assigned to develop the new razor scooter code named “Blue

Zuma”. For the purpose of this case, the set up as following below:

1. The project begins January 1, 2010.

2. The following holidays are observed:

a. January 1 is Friday

b. Memorial Day (last Monday in May)-May 31

c. July 4th is Sunday. henceheHence, Monday on July 5th is day off

d. Labour Day (First Monday in September)-September 6

e. Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November)-November 25

f. December 25 and 26 is Saturday and Sunday. Hence, Friday and

Monday on December 24 and 27 is day off

3. If a holiday falls on a Saturday, then Friday will be given as an extra day

off, and falls on a Sunday, then Monday will be given as a day off.

4. The project team works 8 hour days. Monday through Friday.

A network schedule for this project and a memo as following below:

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1. When is the project estimated to be completed? How long will the

project take?

The project would be estimate to start on Monday (January 3, 2011)

and finished on Thursday (December 16, 2011) as indicated in box at

figure below. The total project durations for Blue Zuma Project would be

involved around 250 days. The estimated project duration for each

process as listed at figure below.

2. What is the critical path for the project?

The critical path for the Blue Zuma project shown as a red path

which to represents a critical task whereas, the blue path represent as

uncritical path which shows at figure below.

Otherwise, the figure below indicated only a group of critical path.

Thus, the critical task of the project are involved the market analysis,

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product design, product design selection and so on as indicated in the box

at figure below.

3. Which activity has the greatest amount of slack?

In Figure below at the last column shows the total amount of slack

for each task project. Hence, the detailed marketing plans were the

greatest amount of total slack which it around 159 days as indicated in the

box at figure below.

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4. How sensitive is this network?

Alternatively, the network diagram below could show the sensitivity

of the network other than critical path as shows at Gantt chart. Thus, the

concept of this network is similar to the Gantt chart which the red path is

critical path but the red box indicated to the sensitivity of the network.

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5. Identify two sensible milestones and explain your choices.

Framework of Blue Zuma project, a milestone is the stage to marks

the completion of work package and typically marked by a high level

event. A milestone may also signify an important decision or the

derivation of a critical piece of information, which outlines or affects the

future of a project. It also should be easier to recognize for all person that

involved in the project. For this case, there is some external process to do

as decided in project plan but they are not included in project task. Thus,

by created a milestone could be represent the some external process has

done in that period. For instant, the company to produce the Blue Zuma

scooter assigns another company or vendor to complete a certain process

or task before to continue the next procedure of project task. At the same

time, the next procedure could be not to continue until the vendor finished

the task. Creating a milestone that represents the critical points in

completion of the contracted work and a significant development, event or

accomplishment in plan of attack. Also, the milestone to achieve that help

to verify the project is on track and on schedule as well as an essential

component of good project management. Hence, milestone was located

before product design task and another one before to order component as

shown in the both box at figure below.

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Milestone 2Milestone 1


6. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of displaying the

schedule as a network versus a Gantt chart?

The advantages of the Gantt chart is all project tasks are listed in

Gantt chart would be indicated clearly. Moreover, the task path and

duration column can shows the duration period should be taking for

completed the project. Also, it shows clearly the date and the day to start

and to end the project other than a column of predecessor. Whereas, it

would be difficult to follow the project schedule since that the

interconnection from one task path to another task path looks messy.

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The advantages of the network diagram could make easier to

understand the sequences of the task from the beginning until to the end

of the process task. But, it would be difficult to predict the duration period

for each process task.

Gantt chart

Network Diagram

PART 2

PART A

Memo that address the as following below:

1. Which if any of the resources are over allocated?

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In figure below, the resources would be appearing in red colour text

to recognize which resources are over allocated or by other step, insert

the over allocated column. Thus, resources are over allocated if in an over

allocated column appearing “Yes” text. Hence, over allocated for this

project are marketing specialist, design engineer, industrial engineer and

purchasing agent.

2. Which activities involve over allocated resources?

Base on Gantt chart, some activities which supported by over

allocated resource may involve on this subject such as detailed marketing

plans, detailed product design and install product equipment.

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3. Assume that the project is time constrained and try to resolve any

over allocation problems by levelling within slack. What happens?

After completed the resources levelling, the over allocated would be

decrease from 4 to 2 over allocated. Hence, the over allocated for this

case are design engineer and industrial engineer as showed in figure

below. While, the greatest total slack for detailed marketing plan was

decrease from 159 days to 84 days as well as showed in the box at figure

below. Thus, some project task is changing in duration period to complete

after resources levelling.

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Resource sheet after resource levelling

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Gantt chart

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4. What is the impact of levelling within slack on the sensitivity of

the network?

Otherwise, the sensitivity of the network also changing as refers to

the network diagram after resources levelling. Obviously, the different

sequence of task project is provided when referring to the network

diagram before resources levelling and the network diagram after

resources levelling.

Network diagram before resources levelling

Netwo work diagram after resources levelling

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PART B


1. Assume that the project is resource constrained and no additional

personnel are available. How long will the project take given the

resources assigned?

The project take given the resources assigned when all resources

are not over allocated after completed a resources levelling in twice. But

for this case, the industrial engineer is still over allocated which they are

still not enough industrial engineer to running this Blue Zuma project.

Thus, the project manager supposes to plan something to ensure the

project could be running well. Might be the project manager plan to give

overtime to the all industrial engineer or plan to hire a new industrial

engineer. Besides, the total duration to complete the project was changing

from 250 days to 290 days which would be start on Monday, 03rd January

2011 and finish on Monday, 20th February 2012 as showed in red box at

figure below.

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2. How does the new duration compare with the estimated

completion date generated from Part 1? What does this tell you

about the impact resources can have on a schedule?

In figure below shows the total duration to complete the project was

changing from 250 days to 290 days after resources levelling. So, the

duration date will increase to 40 days. It means that project should be

finished later than time estimation that has been set before. So, it was

clearly show that any adjustment on resources planning will also effect

directly to project duration time.

Project task before resources levelling

Project task after resources levelling

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PART 3

PART A


1. Which additional assignment would you choose to complete the

project before the February 1st deadlines? Explain your choices as

well as the reasons for not choosing other options.

Base on resource sheet, I would choose additional marketing

specialist in this project because it seem that marketing specialist is still

over allocated but the other resources seem to be allocated. Hence, cost is

something can be accept, so in order to complete project earlier, we could

always hire more workers.

2. How have these changes affected the sensitivity of the network?

After hiring two marketing specialist in this project especially during

market analysis, the duration of the project changed from 290 days to

281.67 days, this is a big improvement in reducing project time.

Sensitivity of a network is by which a project’s critical path has changed as

showed at figure below.

Project task after hiring two marketing specialist

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Network diagram after hiring two marketing specialist

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