Project Management Dummy Paper

Q1: VegRight is in the farming business. The firm has a significant presence in wholesaling vegetables in
New South Wales. The firm wants to develop an app to facilitate online sales to retail customers in
Sydney and thus expand its operations. The activities involved in this project are given below.
ID Activity Predecessors Duration (Weeks)
1 Set up a small office - 2
2 Assess market 1 3
3 Recruit staff 1 4
4 Develop the App 2,3 9
5 Test the App 4 4
6 Undertake pilot 5 5
implementation
7 Make improvements 6 5
8 Test-market the app 7 8
9 Undertake promotion in 8 3
Sydney
10 Expand operations 7 7
11 Commence normal 9,10 2
operations
Draw a network diagram using the activity on node (AON) notation representing the project. Use e.g.
PowerPoint to draw the diagram. What is the critical path and how long is it? You should not use
Microsoft Project or any other project management software for this part of the assignment. (Proper table
required for calculating the critical path) 20 marks

Q2. John owns a small coffee shop. He wants to know the average number of customers queuing in his
coffee shop, to decide whether he needs to add more space to accommodate more customers. Currently,
his queuing area can accommodate no more than eight people.

John measured that, on average, 40 customers arrive at his coffee shop every hour. He also determined
that, on average, a customer spends around 6 minutes in his store (or 0.1 hours). find the average number
of customers queuing in his coffee shop using Little’s law. 10 marks.

 4
 8
 5
 3
Q3. The number of customers arriving at a railway reservation counter is Poisson distributed with an
arrival rate of 12 customers per hour. The reservation clerk at this counter takes 4 minutes per customer
on an average with an exponentially distributed service time. The average number of the customers in the
queue will be. 10 marks
 2.8
 3.2
 3.4
 4
Q4. A Rail road project generates the following cash flows;
Beginning of years:
1 – ($100,000) (contractors’ fees)
2 – ($200,000) (contractors’ fees)
3 – ($200,000) (contractors’ fees)
End of Year 3: $1,000,000 (sales)
Calculate the NPV of the project using a risk discount rate of 20% per year. 10 marks
 $500,000
 $173,148
 $166,667
Q5: Please find the detailed case study of the TAFE NSW modernisation program and answer the
following questions (700 words total). Do not forget to use reliable peer reviewed resources and cite them
into the report (APA 7th Referencing).
https://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/our-work/reports/one-tafe-nsw-modernisation-program
1. Conduct a stakeholder analysis of the project (Stakeholder matrix mandatory) 10marks
2. Critically analyse what went wrong in the project from the perspective of Project Management
Knowledge areas (PMBOK Guide) 20 Marks
3. Provide recommendations for improving the identified risks of this particular project 20
marks