(Solved): You have been made project manager for the design of a new cell phone model. Your supervisors have a ...

You have been made project manager for the design of a new cell phone model. Your supervisors have already scoped the project so you have a list showing the work breakdown struc- ture, which includes major project activities. You must plan the project schedule and calculate project duration and project costs. Your boss wants the schedule and costs on his desk to- morrow morning! You have been given the information in Exhibit 5.18. It in- cludes all the activities required in the project and the duration of each activity. Also, precedence relationships between the activities have been identified. Remember that the preceding ac- tivity must be fully completed before work on the following activity can be started. Your project is divided into five major tasks. Task “P” in- volves developing specifications for the new cell phone. Here decisions related to things such as battery life, size of the phone, and features need to be determined. These details are based on how a customer uses the cell phone. These user spec- ifications are redefined in terms that have meaning to the sub- contractors that will actually make the new cell phone in Task “S” supplier specifications. These involve engineering details for how the product will perform. The individual components that make up the product are the focus of Task “D.” Task “I” brings all the components together and a working prototype is built and tested. Finally in Task “V,” vendors are selected and contracts are negotiated.