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Commercial Environments Corporation has been contracted to landscape the exterior of the corporate headquarters of the Universal Life Insurance Company. Activities they now foresee include gathering the subcontractors; contouring the land; planting grass, trees, and hedges; digging and filling a lake; and laying ground cover. The chart below lists the activities and identifies which, if any, precede each one. Times are in days.

1. In the table above, fill in the EXP (Expected duration) column by averaging the predictions according to the most common weighting system. YOU MAY USE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE.
2. Draw a diagram, using common PERT/CPM symbols or your own, to show the flow of activities above. Put on that diagram the earliest and latest start times for each of the non critical path activities . You may use project management software but this should be easily doable by hand.
3. Shade the critical path on your diagram and fill in the hypothetical standard deviation and variance values for each of the critical path activities.
4. What is the expected completion time for this project?
5. What is the estimated completion time that CEC could give to Universal and be 99% certain of on-time completion.

Solution: Using POM we get the following results:

The network diagram is shown below:

The critical path is A – C – E – G – I

The expected completion time is 33 and the standard deviation is 3.

In order to make sure with 99% confidence that the project will be finished, we need

Price: $5.52

Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 3 pages, 252 words and 3 charts.
Deliverable: Word Document