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Below are seven factors that must be considered before finalizing a schedule. Explain how a baseline schedule can change as a result of each of these situations (1, 2, 3 and 4):
a.Introduction or acceptance of the product in the marketplace.
b.Present or planned manpower vailability.
c.Economic constraints of the project.
d.Degree of technical difficulty.
e.Manpower availability.
f.Availability of personnel training.
g.Priority of the project.
1.Some products must be introduced into the marketplace only in specific months; for example, automobiles.
2.Problems on other projects may have a serious impact on manpower availability for your project, or a shift in your base case may result in a lack of available manpower when needed.
3.A shift in the base case may cause a shift in the cash flow of the project and company, and vice versa.
Expert Answer
- In the first case it is mentioned that there are certain products that are to be released in the market during specific time. Taking the example of automobiles here, manpower for manufacturing automobiles would be more during those periods hence scheduling might get affected as manpower planning has to be redone as per the estimated seasonal sale.
More manpower would be dedicatedly working during those months to manufacture auto-mobiles.
- In the second case, there might be problems with other projects and which will ultimately affect our project as manpower would be required more in those troubled projects and that manpower would be borrowed from our project hence the schedule would change as sudden decrease in the manpower would make the entire project delayed.
- In the third case cash flow of the project and the entire company is changing which would definitely be having negative effects on the baseline schedule. This would come under the head economic constraints of the project. This would mean alterations in the amount and quality of resources that would result in delayed completion of the project and we will have to defer the project for certain duration.
