The world now facing severe food shortage and now the Government is encouraging crops farming. You and your friends decided to venture into this business. This project is to be jointly own and because...

The world now facing severe food shortage and now the Government is encouraging crops

farming. You and your friends decided to venture into this business. This project is to be jointly

own and because you have knowledge of project management, your friends have asked you to

lead the effort, to ensure that all goes well.
The project should include identification of Agriculture land, site preparation, choosing type of

crops, growing of crops till marketing of the harvested products.
Your project Planning should include:  i. List your assumptions (5 marks)  ii. List your Stakeholders (5 marks)  iii. Creating Work Breakdown Structure (Level 1, 2 & 3) for this project. (15 marks)  iv. List the activities necessary to accomplish the project. (15 marks)  v. List the resources required. Which of these resources might be constraints on the

project?  vi. (10 marks)  vii. Draw a network diagram that takes into account all available resources. (20 marks)  viii. Highlight the activities that make up the critical path &  ix. Make duration estimate for each activity. (10 marks)  x. Determine the critical path & overall project time span. (10 marks)  xi. Develop risk register table. (10 marks)
Question 2 (Approx. 4000 words)
This case study is a continuation of the one presented in question 1. Recall the situation above.

However a few unexpected circumstances have arisen.
First, the land clearing works doesn’t seem to be progressing as quickly as you had expected,

and, to make matters worse, 2 weeks of heavy rain is forecasted.
Second, the suppliers has informed you that, because of a recent government regulation the

cost of fertilizer has jumped by 20%.
Third, you have facing labour shortage due to government recently announced policy.
Be creative in approaching this case. You will have to make several assumptions to answer the

following questions. Make sure that you describe all assumptions made.
You are required to:  i. What is the proposed Organizational Structure to be used in this project (10 marks)  ii. Develop a project budget for this project. List the cost estimation and budgeting

approaches (15 marks)  iii. Assume that you are several weeks or months into the project. Develop a chart showing

the Planned Value, Actual cost and Earned value. What is the cost variance? (15 marks)  iv. Develop a project Quality Plan. (10 marks)  v. Develop a resource-Loading table (10 marks) vi. Explain what is Schedule Performance Index and Cost Performance Index. Use item ii

above to calculate SPI and CPI. (10 marks) vii. When to initiate an integrated Change Control. Discuss Change Control concerns. (10

marks) viii. Briefly explain your marketing strategy and pricing policy for your products. Is you

proposed business plan feasible to implement. (10 marks)  ix. What is the Project Closure checklist? (10 marks)