Part 5

Today's date is August 16, 2008. Table A2.8 summarizes the information regarding activities accomplished to date.

Robin Lane has requested a written status report for the Blue Zuma project.

1. Your status report should include a table containing the PV, EV, AC, BAC, EAC, SV, CV, and CPI for each activity and the whole project. The report should also address the following questions:

a. How is the project progressing in terms of cost and schedule?

b. What activities have gone well? What activities have not gone well?

c. What do the PCIB and PCIC indicate in terms of how much of the project has been accomplished to date?

d. What is the forecasted cost at completion (EAC)? What is the predicted VAC?

e. Report and interpret the TCPI for the project at this point in time.

f. What is the estimated date of completion?

g How well is the project doing in terms of its priorities?

Try to present the above information in a form worthy of consideration by top management.

Include a tracking Gantt chart with your report.

Note: Enter August 15 as the status report date since you are preparing yourre. port on the 16th.

2. While preparing your report you receive a phone call from Jim Keltner, a fellow project manager. He is calling to see if one of the industrial engineers assigned to your project would be available to work on his project from August 22 to 27, 2008. What would you tell him?