Project Management: New Hybrid Handheld Game Console Project

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
New Hybrid Handheld Game Console Project
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Abstract
The project management tools help the project manager and project team members to manage the
project effectively and reduce the risks of project failure. This project study examines the usage
of project management tools such as Gantt chart and PERT chart which lead to effective project
management. The critical path and project float is also determined in the report. The project
manager uses the project float time for scheduling the timing of tasks and timeframes to make
best decisions to make sure that the project is on time. The critical path helps to determine
important project activities that have impact on the project schedule. The shortest duration for
problem 1 is 54 weeks and problem 3 is 84 weeks which is analyzed by using critical path
method. Resource leveling is used for resource planning and scheduling the project activities.
Resource constraints are caused when staffs are main source of project limitation. Resource
leveling has impact on project schedule which causes delay in entire project plan.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Part A- Planning documents for new hybrid handheld game console project.................................3
Problem 1:....................................................................................................................................3
1. Activity-on-node network....................................................................................................3
2. Critical path..........................................................................................................................8
3. Gantt chart............................................................................................................................8
Problem 2:..................................................................................................................................11
Resource Diagram..................................................................................................................11
Problem 3:..................................................................................................................................12
Updated resource diagram......................................................................................................12
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................18
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................18
Part B:............................................................................................................................................19
1. Network diagram....................................................................................................................19
2. Forward and backward pass calculation................................................................................21
3. Critical path for the project....................................................................................................22
References......................................................................................................................................24
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................25

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Introduction
The report discusses the activity-on-node, Gantt chart and critical path for the project
plan of new hybrid handheld game console project. The main activities of the project plan are
requirements specification, content specification, design, implementation, integration and
subcontracting. In this report, the project management tool such as Gantt chart is used to
represent the time for each project activities needed to complete the project work. Martinelli and
Milosevic (2016) have stated that it is simple and easier to understand the project progress. The
report also discusses the Precedence network diagrams which is visual representation technique
which can depict the project activities involved into the project.
Part A- Planning documents for new hybrid handheld game console project
Problem 1:
1. Activity-on-node network
The activity-on-node is the term of project management which is referred to precedence
diagramming method that uses boxes to present the schedule activities of entire project plan. The
boxes and nodes are being associated from staring to finish with arrows to present the reasonable
representation of the dependencies among the schedule activities (Too and Weaver 2014). In
terms of project management, float or total slack is sum of time that the project job is delayed
without causing delay to project completion time.

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Figure 1: Activity on node
(Source: Created by author)
The project schedule is shown in the table below with starting time, finishing time, floats and other information based on the
activities in the network diagram.
WB
S Task Name Duratio
n Start Finish Resource Names WBS
Predecessors
Total
Slack
0 New hybrid handheld game
console project_Problem 1 54 wks Mon
12/24/18 Fri 1/3/20 0 wks
1 Requirements specification 13 wks Mon
12/24/18
Fri
3/22/19 0 wks
1 Entire product 3 wks Mon
12/24/18
Fri
1/11/19
Developer, Market Researcher, Project Lead,
Project Manager, Software Engineer, System
Analyst
0 wks
2 Software 5 wks Mon
1/14/19
Fri
2/15/19
Developer, Project Manager, Software
Engineer, System Analyst 1 0 wks
3 Hardware 4 wks Mon
2/18/19
Fri
3/15/19
Developer, Project Manager, Software
Engineer, System Analyst 1,2 0 wks
4 Market research 1 wk Mon
3/18/19
Fri
3/22/19
Market Researcher, Project Lead, Project
Manager 2,3 0 wks
2 Content specification 12.6
wks
Mon
2/18/19
Wed
5/15/19 0 wks
11 Software 6 wks Mon
2/18/19
Wed
5/15/19
Designer, Developer, Project Lead, Project
Manager, Software Engineer, System Analyst 2 0 wks
12 Hardware 5 wks Fri
3/15/19
Thu
5/9/19
Project Lead, Project Manager[0%], Software
Engineer, System Analyst 3 9.8
wks
13 Market research 2 wks Mon
3/25/19 Fri 4/5/19 Project Lead, Project Manager, Market
Researcher, System Analyst 4 0 wks