IT SOFTWARE PROJECT

The numbers to the left will appear automatically if you add the WBS column. Be sure to add the WBS and Cost columns to the entry table that is shown in the Gantt chart view. The numbers shown in the WBS column above are there to indicate subordination. However, Microsoft Project will do the work breakdown structure numbers you see above if you do the subordination (indentation) correctly. Interviews, Anal Existing Doc, Synthesis, Functional Spec, Re-estimate Plan, Development Prop, and Presentation are all subtasks within Analysis. Likewise, 1.2.1.1. Management, 1.2.1.2 Interviews. It will be necessary for you to demote these subtasks and sub-sub tasks appropriately in Microsoft Project by use of the demotion (Indent) arrow in the Gantt chart view.

B. Assign the following resources to the tasks:

Complete the following activities with supporting documents where necessary

1. What is the expected duration of the project?

(3 marks)

2. What is the total budget required to complete the project?

(3 marks)

3. State which activities are on the critical path.

(6 marks)

4. Identify and state which activities have free slack/float

(6 marks)

5. State the Cost per Assigned Resource

(6 marks)

6. Explain why it is important to include a project task at the very beginning of your list of tasks.

(5 marks)

7. Explain why summary tasks have no stated duration in the table above.

(5 marks)

8. Explain why the first subordinated task immediately below a summary task has no predecessor.

(6 marks)

(Total 40 marks)