IT Project Management
Question
The purpose of this exercise is to learn how to use MS Project. It investigates how it can be used to plan out activities to enable a milestone to be achieved.
The objective of this project is to develop a plan, link the tasks, set milestones, assign a resource and cost the project.
Project Definition
- All tasks need to be carried out in sequence
- High Quality
- Calculate the Cost
- Time is fixed and the milestone can be found.
The times for the various tasks are identified below:
These times are only intended as an indication, you should be able to work them out more accurately, however use them to illustrate the plan.
| No | Tasks | Duration (Mandays) |
| 1 | Write Specification | 2 Days |
| 2 | Design Site | 6 Days |
| 3 | Choose Web Authoring Tool | 1 Day |
| 4 | Buy the package | 4 Days |
| 5 | Install & Test Package | 1 Day |
| 6 | Create basic Page layout | 2 Days |
| 7 | Set up Colours & fonts | 1 Days |
| 8 | Compose & Enter Text | 3 Days |
| 9 | Customize Images | 2 Days |
| 10 | Enter links | 3 Days |
| 11 | Check Operation | 1 Day |
| 12 | Set up ISP | 5 Days |
| 13 | Publish to Web | 1 Day |
| 14 | Confirm Operation | 1 Day |
| Question 1 – Date when project complete is DD/MM/YYYY |
Answer 1: 16/11/2016
Question 2 – Will be able to talk to the ISP on DD/MM/YYYY
Answer 2: 07/11/2016
Question 3 – The number of Mondays is XX
Answer3: 34 days
Question 4 – Cost for October is XXXX.XX (no currency sign)
Answer 4: 9410.00
Question 5 – Cost for November is XXXX.XX (no currency sign)
Answer 5: 5040.00
Question 6 – Total Cost for Resource is XXXXX.XX (no currency sign
Answer 6: 14450.00
Question 7 – Month that the Computer will be purchased in
Answer 7: October
Question 8 – Total Cost of the project is XXXXX.XX (no currency sign)
Answer 8: 14450.00
Question 9 – Cost for ISP XXXXX.XX (no currency sign)
Answer 9: 0.00
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