Question

The hiring committee made a job offer to Sharon Adams, and she accepted. She will start her new job in three weeks. As IT department intern, you were asked to set up an orientation for her, including meetings with human resources, users, and the IT team. She also would go on a tour of the company, and confirm a security clearance. After thinking about this, you come up with a suggested orientation schedule, as follows:

First, Sharon would meet with human resources to learn about company benefits and policies (3 hours). When that meeting is over, she could handle three tasks at once: she could tour the company offices (4 hours), meet with users (3 hours), and work on the necessary paperwork (2 hours). After the tour and user meetings, she could meet with the IT managers (1 hour). Then, after meeting the IT managers and with all the paperwork completed, she would meet with the entire IT team for a brief introduction (1 hour).

Task 1. Prepare a work breakdown structure showing tasks, durations, and predecessor tasks. Task 2. Calculate the start and finish date for each task, and determine the critical path

Answer 1

Here arrow line is showing the dependency of task like (1) ---> (2) means task 2 is dependent on task 1.

Critical path selection will based on flow of tasks and we need to follow sequential task and among parallel task max will be taken. Like she could handle three tasks at once so maximum duration is taken in office tour so in the mean while when touring the office she will meet users and do paperwork simultaneously. One more thing is that I've not included breakfast, lunch and snacks in the count, if we consider it then schedule will be adjusted accordingly. So she will take 9 hours to complete all tasks.