Nutrobalance Project Case Study

NutroBalance Project Case Study

Advanced Program management

2/16/2012

(Section 1)

To Alex:

After inputting the information for the data for our team and what is needed to complete this project, I am estimating the starting date as Wed 2/15/2010 and a finish date of Fri 8/24/2012. This will be a total of 138 days. I will be identifying our critical tasks into grouping of five.

(Section 2)

To Alex: Status Update

Customized grouping include:

(Group 1) -Identifying target consumers, recruit test subjects, screen test subjects, and finalize test subjects.

(Group 2) - Prepare product and prepare placebo.

(Group 3) - Develop data analysis database and develop database using hypothetical test data.

(Group 4) - Testing subjects and test database using hypothetical test data.

(Group 5)- Input actual data into database, analyze actual data, and prepare findings report.

From taking critical paths into groups with the idea of consolidating thirteen paths into four has given us a closer knit team focusing on these tasks instead of attacking each task at a time. The reason behind this is to take the focal areas from the similarity of tasks. For example, group one is focusing primarily on the test subjects. Identify, recruit, screen, and finalize. The second group is focusing just on the product, such as preparing the actual product and placebo. Our third focus is on our data base, which is developing analysis and hypothetical test data. Fourth focal point has been testing our female subjects along with testing our database using hypothetical data. The final condensed section is our actual data, which taking our actual data and analyzing it and inputting it into our findings report.

(Section 2 Continued)

As you noted in your last email regarding after a month and a half of only at the point of finishing up the test screening of our subject, and that we are behind schedule and over budget. What we are doing to remedy this is to take our test subjects and align them with one of our four groups instead of having to go through all thirteen one after another. The idea behind this is to have each of our test subjects to meet with one of our four group team members to begin each process instead of waiting each day until the next step is ready for examination. We do realize that some of the tasks are unable to move to the next task until one is completed. What we have done to keep careful track of where each subject is at through the tasks is that they are given associated numbers in which they would meet with other subjects with the same number who are in the same step. What we have done with this is to move subjects in bulk numbers onto their new step. This will be a give and take process, where we are in the "give" mode. As the process moves on, we expect to be in the "take" mode once all of the subjects are