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Managing Hard Rock's Rockfest

By Group 5, Section B Hitesh Jain(PGP10085) M Aishwarya(PGP10089) Mayank Kashyap(PGP10093) Parth Malik(PGP10097) Praveen Kumar(PGP10101)

Case Facts:  Hard Rock Café is planning to conduct the annual event

“Rockfest” which expects 100,000 fans  Vice president Chris Tomasso who is the in charge of Project management has only 9 months period to plan and execute  He uses Microsoft project – a project management software to update his progress  There are 26 activities to be done to conduct the event successfully

CRITICAL PATH METHOD:

Critical path and its activities for Rockfest. How long does the project take ?  The Critical Path obtained from the above critical chart

where slack is zero is,  A --->B--> D--> E--> F--> G--> O  The Time taken for this is 34 weeks.

Critical path and its activities for Rockfest. How long does the project take ?  Activities that have slack time of 8 weeks or more are,  C – 11, K – 11, L -8, M – 8, N – 18, Q – 9, R – 9, V – 12, W – 12, Y – 12, Z -12.

Major Challenges • Unexpected surprises/challenges • Budget shortage • Control over workers to finish the job in stipulated time • Shortage in footfall • One single activity could create a bottleneck for every other activity

Work Breakdown Structure:

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