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Project Plan For Whitbread World Sailboat Race

Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race
Bjorn Erickson was selected as the project manager to design and equip his country’s sailboat entry into the Whitbread Sailboat race due to his past experience as a master helmsman and his recent fame as the “best designer of racing sailboats in the world” (Gray and Larson, 2005, p. 305). The Whitbread Sailboat race will start in 45 weeks and Bjorn must use his time wisely to build a new vessel and test it, and to recruit the racing team and train them. With the kickoff meeting, initial projections show that the current schedule will take 50 weeks to finish with a final budget estimate of $3 million. Although the project estimate...

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