William Purvis looked across his desk at the company’s latest recruit and said:

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William Purvis looked across his desk at the company’s latest recruit and said: ‘Welcome to Westin Contractors. This is a good company to work for, and I hope you settle in and will be very happy here. Everyone working for Westin has to be familiar with our basic tools, so you should start by looking at network analysis. Here is a small project we have just costed, and I have to give the customer some details about schedules, workloads a couple of alternative views, with your recommendation of the best. Everything you need is available in the office, so don’t be afraid to ask for help and advice.’ William Purvis supplied the following data, and said that there is a penalty cost £3,500 for every week the project finished after week 28. CASE STUDY Y Westin Contractors William Purvis looked across his desk at the company's latest management recruit and said, Activity Depends Normal Crashed epends Normal Number Welcome to Westin Contractors. This is a good company to work for and I hope you settle in and will be very happy here. Everyone working for A Westin has to be familiar with our basic tools, so you should start by looking at network analysis. Here is a small project we have just costed -I have to give the customer some details about sched- ules, workloads and budgets by the end of the G week. I would like a couple of alternative views H with your recommendation of the best. Everything I you need is available in the office so don't be afraid to ask for help and advice.' on Time Cost Time Cost of teams 3 13 2 15 3 7 25 4 28 4 5 16 4 19 4 5 12 3 24 2 8 32 5 38 6 6 20 4 30 1 8 30 6 35 5 12 41 7 45 6 6 25 3 30 4 4 18 3 26 6 12 52 10 60 4 6 20 3 30 1 C B, E I, J William Purvis supplied the following data and L said that there is a penalty cost of £3,500 for every M week the project finished after week 28. D, G,1 2 7 1 14 1 B, E 6 18 5 24 5 Question a If you were the recruit, how would you set about this job and what would you say in your report?

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I will start with activities in the following order

A-B-E-C-D-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M

I will say inmy report the following things:

a) Since different activities are dependent on each other therefore, it must be team work. One inefficient team may lead to delay in work of all others. For example suppose activitity B is delayed. It can be seen that entire chain will be disturbed because C is dependent on B,D is dependent on D and so on.

b) Number of team need to be increased for activity K.

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