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Niagara Falls Construction Project: Scheduling, Resources, Costs and Bureaucracy
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A homeowner and his family finally have an offer on their residence. The terms negotiated with the buyers require the homeowner to build a detached garage on the property before the closing date on August 30, 2013, which is in 16 weeks. The homeowner’s family has also made a conditional offer on another home, and the condition must be removed in two days if they would like to finalize that purchase. Although proficient at construction, the homeowner has encountered a major addition to his timeline on May 1. The city is requiring that he obtain a variance approval before the building department issues the building permit, thereby delaying the start of construction by between nine and ten weeks. The homeowner must decide whether to go ahead or cancel the sale of the residence and the purchase of a new home.
學習目標
This case is designed for use in an undergraduate or MBA course on operations management or introductory project management. The case content allows for an analytical approach to covering the basic skills in planning a project and facilitates discussions of key project management concepts. The case can also be used for a less analytic, but more managerial discussion of project management. Since there is a high level of detail in the case regarding task times, materials, costs, available resources and building plans, this case provides a framework to teach students the use of Microsoft Project or other project management software.<ul><li>To facilitate discussions of key project management concepts and help students develop the basic skills in planning a project, including setting precedence relationships, outlining critical path, dealing with due dates and uncertainty, applying project evaluation and review technique (PERT), and identifying crashing approaches.</li><li>To provide insight into operations management that involves planning, controlling and improving operations through managerial decision-making to increase productivity within the constraints of resource and time limitations.</li></ul>