EXAMINATION PAPER

MAY/JUNE 2022

MODULE PROJECT MANAGEMENT IV DATE 3 JUNE 2022

MODULE CODE POM400 TIME: 14H00

Assessor Dr R Dirkse van Schalkwyk DURATION THREE (3) HOURS

Moderator Mr G. van Heerden

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Question 1 [4]
In a project charter, what do the following terms mean?
1.1. Acceptance criteria
1.2. Key assumptions
1.3. Constraints
1.4. Milestone schedule

Question 2 [16]
After receiving a request for proposal, a contractor has to decide if he wants to submit
a proposal in response. The decision is called the bid/no-bid decision, and there are
several factors that influence this decision. Name and briefly explain each of the eight
main categories by which a contractor judges whether to submit a proposal.

Question 3 [9]
3.1. Study the network diagram and answer the questions below. (4)
For example, e. 7

Tas k des cri pti on

Durati on Task 3
acti vi ty no Name i n days
3 Pete 5

Task 1 Task 2 Task 4 Task 6

1 Rose 3 2 Rose 10 4 Sipho 2 6 Pete 3 Task 8
8 Jim 5
Task 5 Task 7
5 Mac 7 7 Sipho 3

a. How long will it take before Task 6 can start?

b. Indicate the critical path by listing the activity numbers.
c. List a predecessor of Task 7.
d. What is the duration of the project?

3.2. Study the GANTT chart and answer the questions below. Only provide the
question number and task ID, not the task name, when giving your answer.

For example, f. 17

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a. Name a predecessor of Task 14.

b. Name a task that is in progress.
c. Which task is a milestone?
d. Which group task is the successor of the approval by the owners?
e. Name a task that runs concurrently with Task 15 (5)

Question 4 [20]
An art gallery has contracted you to organise their new art exhibition in Cape Town.
You are the project manager. However, owing to budgetary considerations, you only
have four employees (John, Busi, Jade, and Lukas) at your disposal. Construct/draw a
work breakdown structure (WBS) up to level 3, with responsibility assignment matrices,
that incorporates the following five categories: advertising, lighting, website, food and
drinks, and tickets. Each category should have at least one WBS item underneath. Due
to other work commitments, Jade can only do the website and Busi only the tickets.

Question 5 [31]
You are the PM on a new IT project that is started at Mega IT company. The project
goal is to transfer all the systems to be cloud-based, but no one knows how big this job
is or even what the WBS would be. There is a concern that the scope will keep
growing. The project steering committee decides to approach the project by using
progressive elaboration.

However, the company executives expect the project to be finished within a very short
space of time and they want you to commit to an end date. Moreover, they have told
you that you will be sharing resources with two other important projects. The
methodology you will be using to do all development is required to be Agile, although
the company has up until now only followed a waterfall method of development.

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The IT Manager told you that he is concerned about the data compatibility across
systems that need to be moved to the cloud, and the developers have raised concerns
about the expectation that systems can simply be moved to the cloud without changing
them, and the learning curves that will await the users.

5.1 For 3 marks, describe in your own words what you understand by progressive
elaboration and for another 3 marks, suggest how this approach can be used
for the project at Mega It company. (6)
5.2 Draw a risk matrix (register) with risk name and description of the possible
impact, and conduct a risk rating (likelihood, impact) for each risk, with a
responsible person and a brief response plan. Identify at least three risks from
your project at Mega IT company. (15)
5.3 When scheduling for IT projects, there are known problems that you should
watch out for and that often push IT projects beyond their planned completion
date. Name five common ICT project problems that you would expect, and for
each one be sure to provide an example from the case study above. (10)

Question 6 [15]
As the project manager for the Mega IT company project, you must control the costs of
the project. Phase 1 will take six months to complete, and you are three months into it.
The control units represent working hours.
The partial structure of Phase 1 is as follows:

For A and for B (B1 and B2), which are sub-accounts of the Phase 1 account, you have
the following information:

Project Sub- Percentage

Account
BCAC ACWP BQAC AQWP BCWS
complete (%)

A 75,00 12,00 5,00 3,00 20% 15,00

B1 90,00 50,00 4,00 4,00 75% 60,00
B2 80,00 24,00 6,00 3,00 35% 30,00
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Calculate the following values, rounding to 2 decimals:

6.1. Earned Value (EV) (3)
A: EV = ?
B1: EV = ?
B2: EV = ?

6.2. Cost Variance (CV) (3)

A: CV = ?
B1: CV = ?
B2: CV = ?

6.3. Schedule Variance (SV) (3)

A: SV = ?
B1: SV = ?
B2: SV = ?

6.4. Schedule Performance Index (SPI) (3)

A: SPI = ?
B1: SPI = ?
B2: SPI = ?

6.5. Cost Performance Index (CPI) (3)

A: CPI = ?
B1: CPI = ?
B2: CPI = ?

Question 7 [5]
You are a senior project manager at Mediclinic SA, and the project management office
manager requested you to deliver an educational presentation to the rest of the project
managers in the project office about the ways one can develop one’s own skills as
project manager. Because you believe in lifelong learning and self-development, you
agree. Write a few paragraphs about five ways to develop the competence necessary
to be an effective project manager.

EXAMINATION TOTAL: [100]

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