MagistrateAtomDuck26 The New Admission Test (NAT) Project This Case Study is adapted… The New Admission Test (NAT) Project
This Case Study is adapted from SAGE Business Cases and modified for educational purposes in Seneca college.
Barua, S. K., (2014). The cAT project. In SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications, Ltd.,
It was mid-July 2022. Professor Frank Hill, the Admissions Chairman realized that he should start thinking about conducting the New Admis¬sions Test (NAT) for admitting students to Seneca business schools, as it was just a few months away. He began by examining the activities involved in conducting the NAT:
Table 1 – Required activities and durations.
Not being familiar with Project Management, Frank walked over to his friend Professor Manoj’s office. Manoj taught a course in Project Management. Responding to Frank’s request to help in planning for NAT, Manoj asked Frank to describe in his own words as to how the various activities were related to each other. “Why do you need that?” asked Frank. “That will help in developing what is known as ‘Precedence Restric¬tions’ in Project Management,” replied Manoj. “That is also required to identify the critical activities that would need your attention,” continued Manoj. “Would I also know how long it will take to get everything organized?” asked Frank. “Yes, it would be possible to determine what is known as the Critical Path. This path is the one that will determine the time you would need to execute your plan,” said Manoj.
The next day, Frank sat down in his office and started constructing statements that described the relation¬ships among the various activities pertaining to CAT. He realized that though he had been in charge of admis¬sions for a while, it was not easy to make the required assertions. After about two hours of effort, he finally produced the following statements on how the activities were related to each other:
1. The collation of the test paper cannot be carried out until the questions for the three sections, name¬ly, verbal, quantitative and data analysis have been decided.
2. The scrutiny of the test papers can be performed only after the collation of the questions is complet¬ed.
3. The application forms cannot be printed until the test centres are finalized.
4. The printing of test papers cannot be undertaken until the printers are identified for printing and the test papers scrutinized.
5. The list of successful applicants cannot be prepared until the application forms are received.
6. The admission cards cannot be despatched until the list of successful applicants is readied.
7. The test papers cannot be despatched unless the test centres are chosen, and the test papers are printed.
8. The test papers cannot be printed until the test centres are chosen.
9. The test cannot be conducted until the admission cards are despatched to the candidates and the test papers despatched to the centres.
Manoj sat down with the statements articulated by Frank. As he was about to begin working with the state¬ments, Shirin, a student in his on-going course in Project Management knocked on his door and entered his office. Shirin was to be given an assignment to make up for the short-fall in his attendance in the course. Manoj saw an opportunity to test Shirin’s understanding of the subject. Handing over the information provid¬ed to him by Frank, he instructed Shirin, “I would like you to draw the Activity-on-Node network diagram for the project and determine the critical activities and the critical path for the project.
That evening while her classmates were on the playground, Shirin was sitting in her room attempting to com¬plete the assignment.
End of the case
The scope of The NAT Project is approved. Now it’s time to determine how long it will take. In other words, you’re building the project’s schedule. This assignment has two parts:
Scheduling Assignment – Part A: Precedence Table
Make a Precedence Table for your project using the tasks in Table 1. Use the excel file “Precedence Table” attached to assignment in Blackboard to define appropriate dependency for each task based on the provided information in the “The NAT Project” case. Image transcription textActivity Activity Description Time (Days) Predecessor Prepare preliminary set of questions for the verbalsection 15 Prepare preliminary set of questions for the quantitative section 20 Prepare preliminary set ofquestions for the data analysis section 20 Search for printers who could print the test papers 21 Ch… Show more… Show more BusinessBusiness – Other
