H.M.S. Pinafore Project Network Plan

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

 

 

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

 

8 weeks 32 weeks 2 days 31 weeks 4 days 32 weeks 2 days
Hiring production crew

 

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

 

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

 

18 weeks 5 days 19 weeks 5 days 18 weeks 5 days 19 weeks 5 days
Recruitment Orchestra members

 

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

 

20 weeks 2 days 32 weeks 2 days 20 weeks 2 days 32 weeks 2 days
Cast Costumes 2 weeks Set design and Building

 

 

18 weeks 5 days 20 weeks 5 days 8 weeks 4 days 10 weeks 4 days
Costume parade 5 days Cast costumes

 

 20 weeks 5 days 21 weeks  3 days 10 weeks 4 days 32 weeks
Dress Rehearsal  2 days  Costume parade

 

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

 

 

 

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