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5 Project Planning and Control
5 Project Planning and Control
© Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers & Robert Johnston, 2004 Operations Management, 4E: Chapter 16
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Chapter Coverage
• What is a project?
• The project planning and control process
• Network planning – Critical Path Method (CPM)
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Projects:
A project is a set of activities with a define start
point and a define end state, which pursues a
defined goal and uses a define set of resources.
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Stages in project management
Stage 1
Understanding
the project
environment
Stage 2
Project Changes
definition
Stage 3
Project Corrective action
planning
Stage 4 Stage 5
Technical Project
execution control
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Geo-social environment Econo-political environment
• Geography • Economy
• National culture • Government
The Project
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Project objectives
The hierarchy of objectives:
• At the top of the hierarchy is the overall
objective or goal of the project, lower levels of
the hierarchy are the objectives of each part of the
project (big projects consists of many parts).
• Objectives of each part must be related to its
overall objective.
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16.10 The three project performance objectives
Quality
New aircraft
project
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Project scope
- Identifies the work content and the outcomes.
- Boundary setting exercise – divides work
content for each part of the project.
- Important for managing contractors –
commercial and legal aspect of the scope of
supply.
- Can change during the course of the project.
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Project strategy
- Defines in general how the organization is
going to achieve its project objectives and
meet the related measure of performance.
- Two ways:
1) Define phases (time based sections) of the
project.
2) Set milestones at which specific reviews of time,
cost and quality are made.
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Adjust as necessary
1 2 3 4 5
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16.15 1. Identify activities: Work breakdown structure
1. Serve
breakfast in bed
© Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers & Robert Johnston, 2004 Operations Management, 4E: Chapter 16
16.16 2. Estimate times and resources
Table 16.1
Time and resources estimates for a breakfast-in-bed” project
No Activity Effort (person) Duration (secs)
1 Serve breakfast in bed 1 120
2 Pour juice in glass 1 5
3 Fetch juice 1 10
4 Fetch glass 1 10
5 Place boiled egg in egg cup 1 3
6 Boil egg 0 240
7 Fetch egg 1 10
8 Bring water to boil 0 180
9 Fill pan with water 1 8
10 Fetch egg cup 1 10
11 Butter the toast 1 10
12 Toast bread 0 30
13 Slice bread 1 30
14 Fetch bread 1 10
15 Fetch butter 1 10
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16.17 Typical subjective probability distribution
for an activity time estimate
Accuracy of estimates
comes with experience!
Probability
3 5 6 Activity duration 13
Optimistic time Expected time
Most likely time Pessimistic time
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3. Identify relationship and dependencies
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4. Identify schedule constraints
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16.20 “Making breakfast” - Do activities at
earliest time
Time (mins)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Orange
Activities requiring
operator time
Bread Toast Butter
Tray
4
Staff required
3
2
1
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time (mins)
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16.21 “Making breakfast” – Minimizing staff
requirements
Time (mins)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Orange
Tray
4
Staff required
3
2
1
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time (mins)
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“Making breakfast” – Maximizing toast
quality
Time (mins)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Orange
4 Tray
Staff required
3
2
1
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time (mins)
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Network planning
1. Use of Gantt chart is the simplest technique that
supports project planning and control.
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16.26 Activities and network for a simple project
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16.27 Network diagram for simple decorating project
EET – the very earliest the event could possibly
Activity reference a occur if all preceding activities are completed as
early as possible.
Activity duration 1
LET – the latest time that the event could possibly
1
take place without delaying the whole project
Event number
3
An Event
b c
2 3
1 a 2 5 f 6
1 1
d e
Earliest Event Latest Event
1 2
Time (EET) Time (LET) 4
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16.28 Activity on arrow – Using “dummy”
activities
2
x
x
1 2 1 3
y
1 3 5
2 4 6
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Critical Path
– Network diagrams have more that one sequence of
activities which will lead from the start to the end of the
project – these sequence are called paths.
– Each path has a total duration which is the sum of all its
activities.
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Network analysis for simple decorating project
With earliest and latest event times
3
3 3
b c
2 3
1 a 2 5 f 6
0 0 1 1 1 6 6 1 7 7
d e
1 2
4
2 4
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Worked Example
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Activity Duration Preceding activities
A 5 -
B 10 -
C 1 -
D 8 B
E 10 B
F 9 B
G 3 A, D
H 7 A, D
I 4 F
J 3 F
K 5 C, J
L 8 H, E, I, K
M 4 C, J
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18 20 G
A
H 3
5 D
8 7
B E L
0 0 10 10 27 27 35 35
10 10 8
F I
9
C 4
K M
1 19 19 5
4
3J
22 22
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The End
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