Answer & Explanation:Read the Tree Trimming Project case in Ch. 13 of Project
Management. ( attached below)
Write a 350- to 700-word paper that thoroughly answers the
following questions based on the case study:
Is Wil over, on, or below schedule? Explain.Is Wil using earned value? Explain.How can Wil set up a schedule and cost variance?What method can Wil use to control any changes in scope
to the project, such as change in shape of shearing from his customers?What alternatives are available to Wil to accelerate
the completion of the tree trimming project?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Due Oct 12 NEED ASAPtree_trimming_project.docx
tree_trimming_project.docx
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Tree Trimming Project
Will Fence is a large timber and Christmas tree farmer who is attending a project management class in the fall,
his off season. When the class topic came to earned value, he was perplexed. Isn’t he using EV?
Each summer Will hires crews to shear fields of Christmas trees for the coming Holiday season. Shearing
entails having a worker use a large machete to shear the branches of the tree into a nice, cone shaped tree.
Will describes his business as follows:
A. I count the number of Douglas Fir Christmas trees in the field (24,000).
B. Next, I agree on a contract lump sum for shearing with a crew boss for the whole field ($30,000).
C. When partial payment for work completed arrives (5 days later), I count or estimate the actual number
sheared (6,000 trees). I take the actual as a percent of the total to be sheared, multiply the percent complete by
total contract amount for the partial payment [(6,000/$30,000 = 25%), (.25 X
$30,000 = $7500)].
1. Is Will over, on, or below cost and schedule? Is Will using earned value?
2. How can Will set up a scheduling variance?
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