GCS has many customers. Each customer has a customer ID, name, phone number, and region. GCS works by projects. A project is based on a contract between the customer and GCS to design, develop, and implement a computerized solution. Each project has specific characteristics such as the project ID, the customer to which the project belongs, a brief description, a project date (the date the contract was signed), an estimated project start date and end date, an estimated project budget, an actual start date, an actual end date, an actual cost, and one employee assigned as the manager of the project. The actual cost of the project is updated each Friday by adding that week’s cost to the actual cost. The week’s cost is computed by multiplying the hours each employee worked by the rate of pay for that skill. The employee who is the manager of the project must complete a project schedule, which effectively is a design and development plan. In the project schedule (or plan), the manager must determine the tasks that will be performed to take the project from beginning to end. Each task has a task ID, a brief task description, starting and ending dates, the types of skills needed, and the number of employees (with the required skills) needed to complete the task. General tasks are the initial interview, database and system design, implementation, coding, testing, and final evaluation and sign-off. F

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GCS has many customers. Each customer has a customer ID, name, phone number, and region.
GCS works by projects. A project is based on a contract between the customer and GCS to design, develop, and implement a computerized solution. Each project has specific characteristics such as the project ID, the customer to which the project belongs, a brief description, a project date (the date the contract was signed), an estimated project start date and end date, an estimated project budget, an actual start date, an actual end date, an actual cost, and one employee assigned as the manager of the project.
The actual cost of the project is updated each Friday by adding that week’s cost to the actual cost. The week’s cost is computed by multiplying the hours each employee worked by the rate of pay for that skill.
The employee who is the manager of the project must complete a project schedule, which effectively is a design and development plan. In the project schedule (or plan), the manager must determine the tasks that will be performed to take the project from beginning to end. Each task has a task ID, a brief task description, starting and ending dates, the types of skills needed, and the number of employees (with the required skills) needed to complete the task. General tasks are the initial interview, database and system design, implementation, coding, testing, and final evaluation and sign-off. For example, GCS might have the project schedule shown in Table P5.11b.