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 9E
You are creating a customer database for the Hillsboro Hops minor league baseball team. Draw a project network given the information in the table that follows. Complete the forward and backward pass, compute activity slack, and identify the critical path.
How long will this project take? How sensitive is the network schedule? Calculate the free slack and total slack for all noncritical activities.
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Project Management: The Managerial Process (Mcgraw-hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
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