Project Planning and Management. A&D High Tech Case Study. Name. Institution. A&D High Tech (A): Managing Project for success. The start date of the project was the 26th of May the year 2003. If the duration of the project is not calculated in the critical path mode it would take 445.5 days Making the completion date to be the 11th of August year 2004. Total cost is: $ 844,980 +$ 98,500 = $ 943,480 DollarsOn analyzing the critical path, there was found to be a high-risk running a task parallel to itself. Doing multiple tasks at a particular time would lead to a delay in the project. When another task is running parallel to the critical path while having the same duration it would lead to a delay in one of the tasks thus changing the critical path and delaying the whole project.The tight schedule and high risk associated with the online store project assumes a high possibility to delay and go behind schedule. The estimated date of completion of the project is Tuesday 11/13/13 factoring in 127 days. When we reallocate and level the work along with the work in the project line there would be a delay of about 3 days making the new completion date to be Friday 11/21/13. This will be with a total project duration of 130 days. Labor cost: $ 844,980 Dollars Number of work stations:12 Cost per work station; $3000 Total cost for work stations; 12 × $ 3000 = $ 36000 Number of servers: 5 Cost per server: $ 12500 Total cost of servers: 5 × $ 12500 = $ 62500 Total capital cost: $ 62500 + $ 36000 = $ 98500 Capital cost: $ 98,500 The potential for the project to be completed in time is possible only if the critical path would be taken. It is feasible for the online store project to go live before the commencement of the holiday season. An extensive testing phase should be done to highlight the potential problems while ensuring strong project management coupled with a history of timely project delivery. The scope of the project should be clearly defined simply. They should employ a detailed project plan and have strong support for the upper management. A&D High Tech (B): Managing Scope Change. Earned value analysis would have to be performed to determine if the project in cost overrun or whether the project is still aligned to the schedule to meet the agreed-upon dates. The scope of the project was to be changed to incorporate promotional bundles and the work required by the online store. The project was seen to be lagging in several terms of work that were being executed by the current workers. The critical path of the project still lied within the design obtained from the enterprise resource planning interface. This was viewed from the Microsoft Project file of the specified project.They could deploy an additional developer having only one developer to build and test the Enterprise Resource Planning module which would take 32 days. On the contrary, two additional developers would reduce building time by 12 days while comple...