CEN4009-N Advanced Project Planning and Visualisation.

Learning Outcome -

Knowledge & Understanding:

- Systematically acquire a comprehensive and critical understanding of project management principles, project models and planning.

- Interpret knowledge of current planning practice and demonstrate originality in the knowledge together within visualisation understanding of how planning techniques are used to interpret the engineering projects.

Cognitive & Intellectual Skills:

- Evaluate commercial risks through understanding of the basis of planning risk including multi constraint techniques.

- Integrate and synthesise the theory and practice to resolve the planning conflicts in engineering projects.

- Make logical and argued conclusions on 4D visualisation and project costs.

Practical & Professional Skills:

- Synthesise complex customer and user needs and ensure fitness for purpose by demonstrating technical calculation skills on engineering project cost, logical visualisation and propose collective suggestion.

PART 1 -

A Teesside PLC has won a contract to work on a major Project to start on 1st October 2019. As a Project Manager you need to develop and analyse the planning schedule for this project using MS-Project. Your project team has identified major activities of the project, their dependency and resources needed to run each activity (see Appendix 1).

Appendix 1 provides information about the project, which includes project logic (activity links and their relationship - finish to start (FS), start to start (SS), and start to finish (SF)), activity durations, resource allocation and work breakdown structure (WBS).

You have been asked to perform the following planning and scheduling processes using Microsoft Project 2012 or later version.