17.6. Decenture has four new IT hires available for assignment to ERP implementation projects. Their expertise varies across platforms and technologies, resulting in different time estimates for complet- ing project tasks. Given the expected time to completion (in weeks) for the list of project tasks below, determine the project assignment that will ensure the tasks are completed in the shortest amount of time: Project Project Project Project Hires 1 2 3 4. Alex 8 10 17 9. Bhavna 3 8 Chen 10 12 11 Denise 13 9. 6

a. Develop a network for this assembly operation

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for A millionares mansion with four to five (4-5) high level tasks and an average of four to five (4-5) sub-tasks for each high level task.

Kelle Carpet and Trim installs carpet in commercial offices. Peter Kelle has been very concerned with the amount of time it took to complete several recent jobs. Some of his workers are very unreliable. A list of activities and their optimistic completion time, the most likely completion time, and the pessimistic completion time (all in days) for a new contract are given in the following table: Time (days) Activity a 3 5 3 4 1 2 7 TH 3 10 10 ABCD E F G H I K 61 525DE5 13 m Activity A 3 7 11 15 9 This exercise contains only part a. a) Based on the activity time estimates, the expected times and variance for each of the activities are: (Round your responses to two decimal places.) b 9 5 3 8 5 13 49127 13 Immediate Predecessor(s) Expected Time C B, D A, E A, E F G C H, I Variance