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Chapter 3:Managing Systems ProjectsNote to Students:After you complete the Practice Tasks, click hereto view the sample answers and check your work. Your answers might vary from these examples and still be correct. The intent is to give you a sample to guide you and serve as a reference. When you complete the Practice Tasks and review the sample answers,please return to this page and complete the Challenge Tasks.BackgroundThe IT group at Game Technology received approval to add a new entry-level systems analyst position. You will help set up the hiring timetable and create a task list to handle the interviewing logistics. After checking with several people in the IT department, you identified seven specific tasks, estimated their duration, and determined the order in which they should be performed. Now you need to create a work breakdown structure and a PERT chart that shows the task pattern and a critical path.Practice TasksUsing your notes, you write up the following statement: First, review the applications (2 days). Then start three tasks: notify the IT team (2 days), reserve a conference room (1day), and set up an interview schedule (5 days). When the team has been notified and the conference room reserved, prepare a set of interview questions (2 days). When the questions are ready and the interview schedule has been developed, conduct the interviews (5 days). After the interviews are done, meet with the hiring committee to select a candidate (1 day).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 pathChallenge TasksAfter you complete the Practice tasks, you learn about new developments at Game Technology. 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.Critical Thinking Challenge: Tasks Page