Assignment title: Information


This is a case on new product development in Chapter 6. Developing new products is a very important set of projects, where project management is very usefully applied. This case is also a mini-exercise in Microsoft Project. It shows how concurrent engineering can be implemented through start to start lags in new product development projects. It brings out some very important points about using the lags and their impact on the project network and the completion of the project. Use Microsoft Project to do the network planning for the case and then answer the questions given in part A, part B, and part C of the case.