PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION

Project Management and Implementation



Project Management and Implementation

France Vacances (FV) is a fictional travel agency specialising in the rental of high quality accommodation in France. They have a wide variety of holiday cottages and apartments at various holiday resorts. They have offices on high streets in many cities and have a good reputation. They already have a huge customer database and a booking system.

Currently, they provide their sales/services through the branch offices or via the phone/post but now they wish to have a presence on the WWW. They have decided to implement a new internet-based booking system. They have done appropriate research and are convinced that, through this additional channel, they will be able to increase the revenue considerably.

To this end, they have decided to entrust the development of its Internet service to a consultancy company called, Smart Designs (SD). This firm has the expertise to provide the following services:

Analysis of requirements and production of requirements specification

Design, development and implementation of an appropriate internet system including a new website.

FV wish to have the system up and running within the next 14 weeks. Since, no work is carried out on weekends, the maximum number of days available is 70. SD have agreed to deliver the system within the time scale mentioned by FV. They have also agreed that the total development cost will not exceed £14600.

Draw the network diagram.

Activity

Duration

Start Date

End Date

Proceedings

1

4 days

Wed 03/7/11

Mon 03/12/11

 

2

4 days

Tue 03/13/11

Fri 03/16/11

1

3

1 day

Tue 03/13/11

Tue 03/13/11

1

4

1 day

Tue 03/13/11

Tue 03/13/11

1

5

1 day

Tue 03/13/11

Tue 03/13/11

1

6

5 days

Mon 03/19/11

Fri 03/23/11

2,3,4,5

7

6 days

Mon 03/26/11

Mon 11/2/11

6

8

2 days

Mon 03/26/11

Tue 03/27/11

6

9

2 days

Mon 03/26/11

Tue 03/27/11

6

10

7 days

Tue 04/3/11

Wed 04/11/11

7,8,9

11

6 days

Thu 04/12/11

Thu 04/19/11

10

12

3 days

Thu 04/12/11

Mon 04/16/11

10

13

2 days

Thu 04/12/11

Fri 04/13/11

10

14

8 days

Fri 04/20/11

Tue 05/1/11

11,12,13

15

10 days

Wed 04/2/11

Tue 05/15/11

14

16

2 days

Wed 04/2/11

Thu 05/3/11

14

17

10 days

Wed 04/16/11

Tue 05/29/11

15,16

18

10 days

Wed 04/30/11

Tue 05/12/11

17

19

2 days

Wed 04/2/11

Thu 05/3/11

14

20

10 days

Wed 04/16/11

Tue 05/29/11

15,16

21

10 days

Wed 04/30/11

Tue 05/12/11

17

Timming of Activities and total float calculation

Project is a mission, undertaken to create a unique facility, product or service within the specified scope, quality, time and costs. Project can also be defined as organisation and performance of resources such as men, money, machinery, materials, space and technology into logical sequence of activities.

Most projects start with a need to have a new facility long before designers start designs and drawing of the projects and certainly before field construction work can commence. Elements of this phase include:

Conceptual analysis

Technical and feasibility studies and

Environmental impact reports.

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