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H.M.S. Pinafore (French version)

John S. Haywood-Farmer, Martin Stapleton, Francis Vanden Hoven

Product #:W36210
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:Operations Management
Setting:Canada, 1993
Details:Case (PDF) • 7 pages • 2023-11-22

Subjects:

Project managementBusiness managementOperations and supply chain management

Industries:

Public administration and nonprofits

Geography:

North AmericaCanada
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The producer of a stage show society needs to use network planning as part of project management to ensure that 10 performances are scheduled well over the next four months. Students will have to construct a network diagram, identify the critical path, and address questions regarding activity crashing. What is particularly unique is that they will have to create a list from the data presented to them at a meeting with the assistant producer. (NOTE: This case has two teaching notes: Number 8A95D15 addresses class discussion and Number 5A95D15 uses a Microsoft Project solution file, which is available with this version of the teaching note, product 7A95D015.)

Learning Objectives

To introduce students to network planning as part of project management. Unlike many such cases, this one does not involve construction of a plant or some other physical structure; instead, it is a service project. It also deviates from the norm for such cases by not providing a list of activities with precedence relationships; instead, the student has to create such a list from the data presented at the meeting indeed, that is the major goal of the case.
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