Scenario continues…

Till now in project we know what kind of task involves to achieve our final output of project. Next step is to start on boarding of resources based on our plan. It is time to revisit our scenario based on resources.

After discussion with management we understand that we will need two functional consultants who can guide us on old system and manual work done in company. Andy and Maxi will travel from Germany to India for Analysis period and will join Jayant who is our technical sr. level consultant for analysis period. The hourly rate for all this consultants are 100 Euro per hour.

Vendor will provide three resources for Installation and Setup, the cost charged by them is 120 Euro per hour also note that they will be charging 10 Euro one time processing fee for Installation and Setup resources for respective task.

Jayant will be available full time on project for Analysis however due to his other project he will be only 50% available during coding time.

We have Soham who will able to develop web pages and coding along with Jayant, Soham will be charged at 56 Euro per hour. Swapnali the database developer will be cost 39 Euro per hour. Note that if Soham or Swapnali need to do overtime they will be charged extra 10 Euro each, this is not applicable to Andy, Maxi and Jayant.

Hemant can help us in creating testing scripts and setting up the documents. He will be charged 24 Euro per hour, the number of xerox copies made for testing are charged 0.25 Euro per copy. Irrespective of how many copies you made, each time you have to pay 1 Euro onetime charge for binding service to create books, it don’t matter how many books 1 or 100 you bind.

Based on above resource conditions in next few blogs we will see how to update the information in our plan.

Scenario

Following Imaginary Scenario we will use to explore MS project by example.

Company XXSDCC Inc. is Giant manufacturing company from Europe who want to ramp-down there old legacy software system with new generation web based solution they also want to extend the software to take care there manual work. With this project they want to change there old hardware and respective vendor.

Constraints

1. Due to another ongoing project this project can be only started after 30th Nov 2014.
2. The new hardware will be only available on 5th Jan 2015.
3. As many people off during X-Mas vacation it is suggested to complete the manual work analysis with business before 18th Dec.
4. The Hardware sizing must be submitted to vendor by 22nd Dec, any delay will result delay in delivering new hardware and lead to commercial impact.
5. As the company is located in different place you need to invite all to one location for workshops.
6. Due to recent increase in power consumption government has declared Power cut for four hours every First Thursday of month for four hours starting from 1 Nov 2014 till 15 Feb 2015.

NOTE: The above scenario is fake one and there is no relevence to any actual project. The overall aim is to keep the project simple but at the same time it should touchbase the different features Microsoft Project offers.In actual project you need to maintain different documents here we will only focus on MS project only.