Your team has been asked to test and document enhancements to a web application that allows buyers to purchase custom-printed canvas shoes. The tasks and dependencies are as follows: a. Create a testing plan Once the testing plan is ready, your team can:
b. Test the user interfaces
c. Test the database
d. Test the network
e. Write the documentation first draft When the user interface tests are complete, you can:
f. Perform user testing—enlist some users to test the user interface When the database and network testing are complete, you can:
g. Perform integration testing—network with the database When the user testing of the user interface and the database testing are complete, you can:
h. Perform integration testing—database, network, and user interface When all integration testing and user testing are complete, you can:
i. Perform system testing Then you can:
j. Review and revise documentation After all other tasks are complete, you can:
k. Obtain management approval
Duration estimates for the tasks: a. 3 days b. 10 days c. 6 days d. 7 days e. 20 days f. 5 days g. 3 days h. 2 days i. 8 days j. 4 days k. 5 days
1. Submit answers to the following questions in a SINGLE document. Put Microsoft Project screen shots in the document and submit the .mpp file. Documents without screen shots will receive zero points.
a) Create a network diagram and a Gantt chart for the project tasks using Microsoft Project.
What is the planned duration for the testing project?
What is the critical path for the testing project?
For each task NOT on the critical path, calculate the amount of slack available.
If the user testing of the user interface takes 15 days, what will the impact be on the project duration?
b) Go online and find at least two sites with definitions of fast tracking and crashing a project schedule.
Prepare proper reference citations for the sites you located, using APA style.
In your own words, write definitions for project fast tracking and project crashing.
Consider the plan you prepared for the software system testing project in the question above. If you were informed by management that you must reduce the planned duration of the project by five days, describe how you, as a project manager, could crash or fast track this project. Be specific in identifying exactly what could be changed in the project plan for each option.
If the request to speed up the project occurs after day 25 of the original schedule, what is the only option available?
c) Go online and research the difference between total slack and free slack.
Prepare proper reference citations for the sites you located, using APA style.
Write definitions of total slack and free slack in your own words.
Why would the distinction between different forms of slack be important to a project manager?