You are a project manager in the IT department of a company. You have been asked to develop a customised software application for the sales department of your company. You have already gathered the requirements, documented the specifications, and developed a project schedule. The head of the sales department wants the user interface of the software to be generated early in the project so that she can provide feedback that will enable you to make adjustments to the user interface. After seeing the user interface, the head of the sales department suggests a number of changes and some new features to be added to the software.

On the basis of the project information, complete the following tasks:

1. Construct a project schedule to determine the overall cost of and time for the project.
2. Identify the finish date.
3. Calculate the total cost.
4. scribe the process that was followed to review and approve the change request.
5. Identify the new finish date after the approval of changes.
6. Calculate the new total cost after the approval of changes.

Use the following information for arriving at your answers:

 

Task #	Description	Duration	Predecessor
1	Gather requirements	10 days	Â
2	Write use cases	5 days	1
3	Get client approval	2 days	2
4	Write specifications	5 days	3
5	Create high-level design	5 days	4
6	Create detailed design and schedule	5 days	5
7	Create user interface	15 days	6
8	Get client feedback	1 day	7
9	Create database	5 days	6
10	Write support modules	30 days	6
11	Unit test support modules	5 days	10
12	Write high-level functions	45 days	6
13	Unit test high-level functions	10 days	12
14	Integration testing	5 days	13,11
15	Acceptance testing	5 days	14,8

 

Required resources are as follows:

 

Tasks	Required resources
Gather requirements	Product manager and project manager
Write use cases	Project manager and product manager
Get client approval	Product manager
Write specifications	Project manager
Create a high-level design	System architect
Create a detailed design and schedule	System architect and project manager
Create a user interface	User interface programmer
Get client feedback	Project manager and user interface programmer
Create a database	Database programmer
Write support modules	Coder
Perform a unit test of support modules	Coder
Write high-level functions	Programmer
Perform a unit test of high-level functions	Programmer
Perform integration testing	System architect, programmer, and coder
Perform acceptance testing	Project manager and system architect

 

Resource hourly rates (in €/hour) are:

 

Resource	Hourly Rate
Project manager	45.00
Product manager	40.00
System architect	40.00
User interface programmer	35.00
Database programmer	30.00
Programmer	30.00
Coder	25.00

 

The start date for the project is 12 October. All Saturdays and Sundays are non-working days. Calculate the Saturdays and Sundays on the basis of the current calendar year. Additionally, the following are non-working days:

• 30 November
• 25 December
• 28 December
• 1 January
• 4 January
• 17 March
• 2 April
• 5 April
• 3 May
• 31 May
• 12 July

At the close of the client feedback session (task 8), the head of the sales department wants some changes to be made, and as such, makes a formal change request that day. It takes 14 working days for the change request to be approved.

An analysis of the impact of the change reveals the following:

• Changes to the database module will require 5 days.
• Testing of the new database module will take 5 days following the changes.
• Changes to the support modules will require 7 additional days of work.
• Changes to the high-level functions will require 10 additional days of work.