Planning and Scheduling: Rock Fest Planning and scheduling play a key and critical role in smooth operations and easy execution of organizational decisions. In the case of Hard Rock, we notice that Chris Tomasso understands the significance of planning and scheduling especially in the case of an event of as huge a scale as Rock fest. For this reason, he consistently uses MS Project software to keep himself abreast of the changes and to see his own progress on the planning of the event. The Event has a tight time frame of nine months which is not much considering Hard Rock is no ordinary cafe and Rock fest is no simple event. Elaborate planning and preparations are needed to successfully launch an event on such a gigantic scale and hence even 9-month period seems way too short. However with careful planning and scheduling...

For one it must be understood that some activities will need to be crashed in order to meet the deadline. Crash time refers to the shortest possible time in which an activity can be completed. Hence when planning, a project manager like Tomasso will most definitely keep both the normal and the crash time in view and will try their best to get some activities done in crash time instead of normal in order to get things done on time.
The first most important step is to get the dates from performers. At an event like Rock fest, people are expecting big names to perform. But that also…