Humanities Homework Help

Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook must be the primary source utilized and listed in your reference section (and properly cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion. This means that they support the material from the textbook. Do not use other sources to substitute for or replace the textbook.

Resourcing Projects.

This chapter demonstrates how to schedule resources on projects: determining the need for workers, understanding who is available, and assigning people. All of the techniques of resourcing projects are integrated with the behavioral aspects of how to deal effectively and ethically with the people involved. Resource needs are shown on a Gantt chart developed in Chapter 8, the responsibilities are shown as they change over time, conflicts and overloads are identified, and methods for resolving conflicts are introduced. Alternative approaches for creating and compressing schedules are shown. Many of the techniques in this chapter are also shown with MS Project.

After completing this chapter, each student should be able to perform the following:

Core Objectives:

1. Show resource assignments on a RACI chart, Gantt chart, and resource histogram.
2. Develop an effective project schedule, considering resource constraints.
3. Describe methods of resolving resource overloads.

Behavioral Objectives:

1. Create a Human Resources Management Plan including role descriptions and staffing management plan.
2. Assign roles and responsibilities based on strengths.

Technical Objectives:

1. Compress a project schedule using crashing and fast tracking, and describe the advantages and disadvantages of both.
2. Compare various alternative scheduling methods.
3. Using MS Project, assign resources, pinpoint overloads, and describe methods of dealing with them

provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. Describe a potential timing issue that can occur early in a project and a potential timing issue that can occur at the end of a project. How would you address each of these issues in your project?
2. Compare a project you’ve worked on that was limited mostly by activities with another project you’ve worked on that was limited mostly by resources. Which did you find more challenging? Why?
3. You are the project manager in charge of construction of a new school building. Give one possible example each of a known known, known unknown, and unknown unknown you might encounter.
4. Give an example of how a project manager could run into problems with cash flow, even when he is within budget on the overall project.