Revisit your activity-event network model from Q1 to answer the following questions. Use the ANU Systems Engineering Process model to answer Part (d). a) Make up a simple crash cost schedule for your project covering both additional labour cost and additional equipment cost. Don't forget to specify a savings amount for a reduction in project duration. [8 marks] b) Using the crash cost schedule from Part (a), compute a crash schedule that shortens the project duration by 2 time units. What is the additional net cost? [2 marks] c) Compute two more alternative crash schedules of the same duration as the crash schedule from Part (b) and compare their additional net costs. Which of the three schedules would you recommend and why? [4 marks] d) Imagine you are the responsible systems engineer and project manager on an engineering design project, and that you are forced to adopt a crash schedule towards the end of the conceptual design phase of the project. Discuss the potential consequences of this decision and what adjustments you would need to make to the systems engineering process and/or the project documentation as a result of this decision. Make sure you discuss multiple potential scenarios depending on which of the process phases is shortened in the revised project schedule. [6 marks]
