1.You are the project manager for a construction project to repave a 3 mile sect
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1.You are the project manager for a construction project to repave a 3 mile section of highway. The project is planned to coincide with the winter months where the area typically has lots of rain and colder weather making work slow and generally inefficient. In some years, this area gets unusually good and mild weather where the work would proceed more quickly and without the typical winter delays. Is the possibility of “good” weather a risk to the project? Why or why not? What, if anything should you do about this possibility?
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Project scheduling software tools such as Microsoft Project or Prima Vera (Oracle) are commonly used to store project decisions, capture actual data, show progress and easily update the schedule with approved changes.
Before beginning to input data into Microsoft Project to create a Project Schedule ( Gantt Chart), what project planning tools/techniques should already be completed to facilitate data entry into the tool?
Explanation / Answer
1)
Due to good weather in patches, it is expected that resources and materials may be diverted from places having unfavorable weather to these areas to complete the work faster and keep the resources busy. However doing this may adversely affect the project as the work in the good areas may not be falling on the critical path and hence its fastening may not positively impact the project.
Instead, diversion of resources from areas having adverse weather, which may fall on the critical path implies that resources may not be available when they are required for doing project work and hence the project may be delayed further.
In order to prevent this type of resource diversion, project managers should track the critical path of the project clearly and also prevent any resource diversion even if there are idle resources due to factors such as adverse weather.
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The project planning techniques which should be completed are:
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