H.M.S. Pinafore Project Network Plan
As Francis Vanden Hoven, construct a network plan for the H.M.S. Pinafore Project. You can use Activity-on-Arrow (AOA) or Activity-on-Node (AON) notation.
Provide the following information; 1. A table with the following columns; activity, duration, immediate predecessors (IP), early start, early finish, late start, late finish, slack (25%)
2. A project network plan / diagram (15%)
3. What is a critical path? Why is it important to know what activities are on the critical path? (10%)
4. What is the critical path for this project? (10%)
5. Is there enough time to complete this project without crashing? If not – which tasks will you crash? Why? (10%)
6. Which activity durations you disagree with? Why? (10%)
H.M.S. Pinafore Project Network Plan-Question 1
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Duration | IP | Early Start | Early Finish | Late Start | Late Finish | ||
Hiring publicity director | 2 weeks | _ | 0 | 2 weeks | 0 | 2 weeks | ||
Advertising Campaign | 1 week | Hiring publicity director | 2 weeks | 3 weeks | 2 weeks | 3 weeks | ||
Obtaining cast photographs | 4 weeks | Advertising campaign | 3 weeks | 7 weeks | 27 weeks 2 days | 31 weeks 2 days | ||
Collecting and Entering information into computer program | 1 day | Obtaining cast photographs | 7 weeks | 8 weeks | 31 weeks 2 days | 31 weeks 4 days | ||
Printing | 5 days | Entering information into computer program
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8 weeks | 32 weeks 2 days | 31 weeks 4 days | 32 weeks 2 days | ||
Hiring production crew
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4 weeks | Advertising campaign | 3 weeks | 7 weeks | 3 weeks | 7 weeks | ||
Set Designer | 4 weeks | Hiring production crew | 7 weeks | 11 weeks | 7 weeks | 11 weeks | ||
Training production crew | 12 days | Set designer | 11 weeks | 12 weeks 5 days11 | 12 days 5 weeks | |||
Set design and Building
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6 weeks | Training production crew | 12 weeks 5 days | 18 weeks 5 days | 12 weeks 5 days | 18 weeks5 days | ||
Auditions | 1 Week | Set and design building
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18 weeks 5 days | 19 weeks 5 days | 18 weeks 5 days | 19 weeks 5 days | ||
Recruitment Orchestra members
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4 days | Auditions | 19 weeks 5 days | 20 weeks 2 days | 19 weeks 5 days | 20 weeks 2 days | ||
Rehearsals | 12 weeks | Recruitment of Orchestra members
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20 weeks 2 days | 32 weeks 2 days | 20 weeks 2 days | 32 weeks 2 days | ||
Cast Costumes | 2 weeks | Set design and Building
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18 weeks 5 days | 20 weeks 5 days | 8 weeks 4 days | 10 weeks 4 days | ||
Costume parade | 5 days | Cast costumes
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20 weeks 5 days | 21 weeks 3 days | 10 weeks 4 days | 32 weeks | ||
Dress Rehearsal | 2 days | Costume parade
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21 weeks 3 days | 32 weeks 2 days | 32 weeks | 32 weeks 2 days | ||
Select crew for tickets selling advertisement plan | 1 week | Hiring publicity director
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3 weeks | 4 weeks | 24 weeks 2 days | 25 weeks 2 days | ||
Selecting advertisement media | 3 weeks | Advertisement plan | 4 weeks | 7 weeks | 25 weeks 2 days | 28 weeks 2 days | ||
Hiring advertisement crew | 4 weeks | Selecting advertisement media | 7 weeks | 28 weeks 2 days | 32 weeks 2 days | 32 weeks 2 days |