John has graduated from a local university with a degree in industrial managemen

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Question

John has graduated from a local university with a degree in industrial management and joined his father’s company as executive vice-president of operations. Dad wants John to prove himself and decided to assign a project to John. 20% of the company’s sales are derived from sale of swimming pool kits for homes. The company does not install these kits, buyers have to find their own installing experts. John has to determine whether or not they should get into that business. John remembered a method called the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that he thought might serve as a useful tool to estimate costs. Also, the use of such tool can be passed along to the site supervisor to help evaluate the performance of work crews. Help John to create a WBS and come up with a cost estimate for installing home swimming pool kits at the front-yard or back-yard of homes.

Prepare a WBS which indicates all the deliverables of installing swimming pool kits at homes.

Assign an approximate duration and cost for each WBS element.

List what are risks that can be identified in this project.

Explanation / Answer

Answer – John has a responsibility to handle the project to install the swimming pool kits by using their own experts. John has to decide that what is cost? For hiring installing expert for his company and he has to decide whether they install the swimming pool is it at in front of home or outside for doing this all John have to use concept WBS (work Breakdown Structure )

Work Breakdown Structure - Work breakdown structure (WBC) means to reduce complicated task or activities or collection of complicated task etc this is very important for the manager in any organization because he has to deals with future see and he decide that in which way task can be completed more better, faster and cheaper.

WBS structure is like a tree structure which shows sub parts or sub division of a project to achieve their goals .A WBS structure for making construction of swimming pools are as follows

s. no.

Work Task

Labour Hour Aggregate

Labour Cost$@$12/hours

Prepare ground surface

2.68

32.16

Layout pool frame

2.4

28.8

Add plastic liner

0.5

Assemble pool

1.7

20.4

Build wooden support

Fill and test

Total

12.28

147.36

From above WBS structure we can say that the total charge for installing swimming pool is $148 for moving ahead with the business we need to compare this rate with our customer.

Risk for Installing a swimming pool – There are various risk that can be seen in installing a swimming in back yard or in front of house