Project Management Schedule - Essay Example

Task

Duration

Start date

End date

Dependencies

Preliminary preparations

8 days

Fri 2/24/12

Tue 3/6/12

 

Production layout

2 days

Fri 2/24/12

Mon 2/27/12

 

market testing

3 days

Tue 2/28/12

Thu 3/1/12

2

analyze selling cost

3 days

Fri 3/2/12

Tue 3/6/12

 

Get prices of similar products in the market

2 days

Fri 3/2/12

Mon 3/5/12

"3,2"

Set new product prices

1 day

Tue 3/6/12

Tue 3/6/12

"3,2,5"

analyze customer reactions

3 days

Wed 3/7/12

Fri 3/9/12

 

Get customer feedback

3 days

Wed 3/7/12

Fri 3/9/12

"3,2,5,6"

Get customer views

3 days

Wed 3/7/12

Fri 3/9/12

"3,2,5,6"

Storage and shipping costs

2 days

Fri 3/2/12

Mon 3/5/12

 

Identify shipping locations

2 days

Fri 3/2/12

Mon 3/5/12

"2,3"

Compare storage and shipping costs

2 days

Fri 3/2/12

Mon 3/5/12

"2,3"

Prepare sales process

6 days

Fri 3/2/12

Fri 3/9/12

 

Select salespeople

3 days

Fri 3/2/12

Tue 3/6/12

"2,3"

Train Salespeople

3 days

Wed 3/7/12

Fri 3/9/12

"14,2"

Distribution stage

3 days

Mon 3/12/12

Wed 3/14/12

 

Train distributors

3 days

Mon 3/12/12

Wed 3/14/12

"15,14"

Work on distribution logistics

3 days

Mon 3/12/12

Wed 3/14/12

"15,2,1,4"

Prepare literature to be used

6 days

Mon 3/12/12

Mon 3/19/12

 

Literature to salespeople

2 days

Mon 3/12/12

Tue 3/13/12

"15,14"

Literature to distributors

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

"17,14,15"

Print Literature

1 day

Mon 3/19/12

Mon 3/19/12

21

Sales promotion

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

 

Prepare sales strategies

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

 

Identify locations to make promotions

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

"17,18"

Make a feasibility study on the identified locations

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

"17,18"

Sales manual

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

"17,18"

Trade advertising

2 days

Thu 3/15/12

Fri 3/16/12

"17,18"

Work on asset analysis

14 days

Thu 3/15/12

Tue 4/3/12

 

Review plant costs

4 days

Thu 3/15/12

Tue 3/20/12

"3,2,17,18"

Select distributors

4 days

Thu 3/15/12

Tue 3/20/12

18

Work on the art process

10 days

Wed 3/21/12

Tue 4/3/12

 

layout artwork

5 days

Wed 3/21/12

Tue 3/27/12

31

Approve artwork

5 days

Wed 3/28/12

Tue 4/3/12

33

Showcase process

2 days

Wed 4/4/12

Thu 4/5/12

 

Introduce a trade show

1 day

Wed 4/4/12

Wed 4/4/12

34

Distribute to salespeople

1 day

Thu 4/5/12

Thu 4/5/12

36

Establish costing

8 days

Fri 4/6/12

Tue 4/17/12

 

Establish billing procedure

2 days

Fri 4/6/12

Mon 4/9/12

37

Establish credit procedure

2 days

Tue 4/10/12

Wed 4/11/12

39

Revise the cost of production

2 days

Thu 4/12/12

Fri 4/13/12

40

Revise Selling cost

2 days

Mon 4/16/12

Tue 4/17/12

41

Approvals

2 days

Wed 4/18/12

Thu 4/19/12

 

Review meetings

1 day

Wed 4/18/12

Wed 4/18/12

42

Final specifications

1 day

Wed 4/18/12

Wed 4/18/12

42

Material requisitions.

2 days

Wed 4/18/12

Thu 4/19/12

42

The project will have some constraints if the staff of the project does not have enough experience to handle the technical issues that might arise in the development of the project. If a significant percentage of the project staff will not be experienced with the operating environment it will cause some constraints in project execution. It is expected that the staff assigned to this project will have the technical expertise required to perform this project.

If deliverables submitted for approval will require working days for review will cause constraints because there will be some delay in the whole project. There will also be constraints if the sponsor has not described all the details required for the development of the system. It will therefore mean that more rework will be done which will cause further delay to the project.

Constraints will be experienced if key decision-makers are difficult to contact when issues arise in the project. This will cause time wastage in the project execution. It is expected that these decision-makers will be reachable at any time and in all the development phases of the project.

Another constraint that might arise is if the project members are new to the environment and may take time to learn the new developing environment. This will cause a delay to be experienced in the project execution.

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