NutroBalance Project Management

Section One
Dear Alex,
The project as it is currently scheduled will take 138 working days to complete and its expected completion is April 25th, 2012. The critical tasks in this project are task IDs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, & 13. These are: * 1 - Identify Target Consumers * 2 - Recruit Test Subjects * 3 - Screen Test Results * 4 - Finalize Test Subjects * 5 - Prepare Product * 9 - Test the Subject * 11 - Input Actual Data into Database * 12 - Analyze Actual Data * 13 - Prepare Findings Report

Section Two

The NutroBalance company produces a line of weight loss supplements and nutritional snacks. Ultra, a weight loss supplement which is geared primarily towards men who lift weights and do cardiovascular exercises, have been a big success. Therefore the company wishes to replicate this success by formulating the Ultra pills to target other segments of the workout population. UltraMAX, a new product, is geared toward women who also lift weights and do cardiovascular exercises. Because the core of the product has already been produced, the project to introduce UltraMAX to the workout world really boils down to seeing whether UltraMAX produces results in women as good as those that Ultra does in men.
There are four professionals that will be working in the project to test the UltraMax effects in women. These resources include Sarah, Robert, Tony, and Lisa. There are many options that can be pursued based on these resources standard rate and the way that they are scheduled. For example, Sarah is the highest paid member of the team and her base rate is fifty dollars per hour and her overtime rate is seventy five dollars per hour. However, Lisa is only paid a base rate of twenty dollars an hour and an overtime rate of thirty dollars per hour. Therefore, it would make more financial