NEAT HANDWRITING PLEASE! Scenario: You are a project manager for a company that
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NEAT HANDWRITING PLEASE!
Scenario: You are a project manager for a company that manufacturers transportation products that cornforms to unique customer specifications. The company's production staffing is: 1 designer, 3 electrical technicians, and 4 mechanical fabricators. The company has the following core competencies design, frame fabrication, metal fabrication, and electrical harness fabrication. A meeting with a proposed customer has brought a developed a list of requested items. (touring cycle configuration [similar to Honda Goldwing], halogen light package, Harley-Davidson 1800cc engine, custom seat [dual independent seats with customer specified leather embossing], customer approved wheel design, stereo with AM/FM/Weather/Bluetooth with front/rear speakers. side and rear luggage compartments, extra wide rear tire, dual headlights). The customer has indicated that the product is needed prior to the next Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Phase 01: Create a project scope with: inclusions/exclusions, customer provided items, and estimated delivery date. (deliverable: document)Explanation / Answer
Scenario: You are a project manager for a company that manufacturers transportation products that corm to unique customer specification.
The company’s production staffing is: 1 designer, 3 electrical technicians, and 4 mechanical fabricators.
The company has the following core competencies:
design,
frame fabrication,
metal fabrication,
and electrical harness fabrication.
A meeting with a proposed customer has brought a developed a list of requested items.
(touring cycle configuration [similar to Honda Goldwing],
halogen light package,
Harley-Davidson 1800cc engine,
custom seat [dual independent seats with customer specified leather embossing],
customer approved wheel design,
stereo with AM/FM/Weather/Bluetooth with front/rear speakers.
side and rear luggage compartments,
extra wide rear tire,
dual headlights).
The customer has indicated that the product is needed prior to the next Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
: Develop a list of potential risks associated with completing the project. (deliverable: document)
Projects (Projects are composed of a unique set of activities established to realize a given set of objectives in a limited time span) to be completed:
configuration similar to Honda Goldwing using one designer prior to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (Let us say in 6 months)
Harley-Davidson 1800cc engine
Customized seat (dual independent seats with customer specified leather embossing)
Customer approved wheel design, stereo with AM/FM/Weather/Bluetooth with front/rear speakers, side and rear luggage compartments, extra wide rear tire, dual headlights.
Activities involved to execute these projects
Designing the configuration similar to Honda Goldwing using one designer prior to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (Let us say in 6 months)
Procuring Harley-Davidson 1800cc engine
Design and developing or procurement of customized seat (dual independent seats with customer specified leather embossing)
Designing and Developing or sourcing the supplier for customer approved wheel design, stereo with AM/FM/Weather/Bluetooth with front/rear speakers, side and rear luggage compartments, extra wide rear tire, dual headlights.
Each activities demand a unique set of demands from the project manager for planning, coordinating and managing human problems.
All the above said projects need to be managed at program level as a program manager for planning and coordinating the large-scale projects.
By using PERT (program evaluation and review technique and CPM (Critical Path method, the project managers are able to obtain
A graphical display of project activities.
An estimate of how long the project will take.
An indication of which activities are the most critical to timely project execution.
An indication of how long any activity can be delayed without delaying the project.
We have to use one of the main features of the PERT and related techniques, a network or precedence diagram to depict major project activities and their sequential relationships.
We need to analyse each activities that are composed of many events and the probability of occurrence of each event and the capacity or ability to detect its occurrence of each event and do the cost benefit analysis for each and every event.
Since it is a mechanical design projects, I can very say that the success probability of this project is 0.13. So 0.87 probability assigned to the risks involved in executing in these type of design and development projects.
As time frame is sufficient enough to get into the details of the projects specific activities and their events, I recommend you to read design failure mode and effect analysis guidelines to better understand the risk management.
Reference material used: Book - Operations Management by William J Stevenson.
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