Project Management: The Managerial Process (Mcgraw-hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781259666094
Author: Erik W. Larson, Clifford F. Gray
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 7E
The project information for the custom order project of the Air Control Company is presented here. Draw a project network for this project. Compute the early and late activity tunes and the slack times. Identify the critical path.
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A project consists of the activities in the following list. Times are given in weeks.
Activity
Preceding
Time
A
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8
B
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4
C
A, B
7
D
A, B
3
E
C, D
5
F
C, D
6
G
E, F
4
Draw the project network diagram.
Calculate each activity's ES, EF, LS, LF, and Slack using the project activity nodes on the project network diagram.
What is the project completion time?
Identify the critical path
Construct a project network for the following project. The project is completed when
activities F and G are both complete.
Activity
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
Immediate Predecessor
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_
A
A
C,B
C,B
D,E
A project's activities must be completed in the sequence indicated below.
Activity
Immediately Preceding Activity
Duration in Weeks
A
-
3
B
-
20
C
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15
D
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10
E
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5
F
A
4
G
D
3
H
D, E
10
I
F
3
J
B
10
K
G, H
7
L
B, I
5
The project ends with the intersection of activities: C, J, K and L
1- Use CPM to construct (Draw) the project Network and find the critical path.
2- How long is the project expected to take
Chapter 6 Solutions
Project Management: The Managerial Process (Mcgraw-hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
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- Construct this problem. Draw a network diagram, determine the early start, early finish, late start, late finish, and slack times for each activity (table), determine how long the project will take, and which activities are on the critical path.arrow_forwardINSTRUCTIONS: Draw the AON network for Exercise 14 (pg ASSIGNMENT 200 & 201). Complete the forward and backward passes, calculate total slack for each activity, identify the critical path, identify the total project length (or how long it will take to complete the project) based on days, calculate free slack for appropriate activities, and create the Gantt chart. When creating the Gantt chart, you must include slack into the schedule.arrow_forwardThe activities in the following table describe the construction of a new house. Construct the associated project network ACTIVITY PREDECESSORS DURATION (WEEKS) a Create a spreadsheet to calculate and summarize the earliest and latest start and finish times, the slack for each activity, and the critical activities. (USING EXCEL ONLY, Vlookup, ISERR etc functions) b. Make a gantt chart.arrow_forward
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