CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CEE 320 – VDC SEMINAR) 4 February 2009 Jesse Santiago & Desirae Magallon Overview Background & History CPM Defined The CPM approach Definitions Class Exercise Background & History Developed in the 1950s by the US Navy Originally‚ the critical path method considered only logical dependencies between terminal elements Since then‚ it has been expanded to allow for the inclusion of resources related to each activity‚ through processes called activity-based resource
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LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT Emad Elbeltagi‚ Ph.D.‚ P.Eng.‚ Professor of Construction Management Structural Engineering Department‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Mansoura University Construction Project Management 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means‚ or stored in a data base or retrieval system‚ without the prior written permissions of the author. PREFACE In the Name of
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ONLINE SUPPLEMENTAL APPENDIX PROJECT SCHEDULES WITH PERT/CPM CHARTS Chapter 3 of Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World explains the techniques and steps required to build a project schedule using the Gantt chart view in MS Project. This appendix provides a similar explanation of how to build a project schedule‚ but it is based on using a PERT/CPM chart or diagram for the schedule format. A Gantt chart and a PERT/CPM chart both provide essentially the same information about project
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Telenor (First 3 ‘S’ Example) I did only the first 3 ‘S’ for Telenor analysis. They were strategy‚ structure and system. “Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway‚ with headquarters located at Fornebu‚ close to Oslo. Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia‚ Eastern Europe and Asia‚ working predominantly under the Telenor brand. It is ranked as the sixth largest mobile phone operator in the world‚ with more than 172 million
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Brand Audit and Planning Telenor Group Members: Syed M. Humair & Fahad Habib EMBA-2009-F-13 EMBA-2009-F-54 NUST BUSINESS SCHOOL Brand Management Submitted to: Zeenat Jabbar Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Brand Architecture 4 3. Brand Elements 5 3.1. Telenor Logo 5 3.2. Telenor Tagline 5 3.3. Telenor and its association with sub-brands 5 3.4. Djuice 5 3.5. Talkshawk 6 3.6. Persona 6 3.7. Easypaisa 6 4. Brand Resonance 7 4.1. Defining Brand
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PERT‚ CPM‚ and Agile Project Management. Robert C. Martin 5 October 2003 Some time in the late 60’s my father brought home a book that he thought I’d be interested in. The title was Introduction to Operations Research by Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman‚ Holden-Day‚ 1967. I was probably 15 or 16 years old. The book languished on my shelves for perhaps ten years. Then‚ as a young software professional‚ I pulled the book down and ‚thumbing through its pages‚ I noticed a chapter on PERT
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Homework Problems 3.28 The following represent activities in Marc Massoud’s Construction Company project. a) Draw the network to represent this situation. b) Which activities are on the critical path? c) What is the length of the critical path? Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) Time (weeks) Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) Time (weeks) A — 1 E B 2 B — 4 F C‚ E 7 C A 1 G D 2 D B 5 H F‚ G 3 3.29 A small software development project at Krishna Dhir’s firm
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Scamoail Ahmed - Project Mgmt assignment no 2 Q No 1 : What is meant by Project Crashing? How you incorporate Project Crashing through PERT-CPM? Definition 1. Project Crashing is a technique / process by which a project can be expedited by compressing the project schedule. Explanation 2. When we say that a project completion time is XX days‚ we generally mean that the project will normally takes these number of days within a specified resource / budget constraint. We could make it take less
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References: 3. Basu (2003)‚ “CPM Scheduling in construction: A case study”‚ AACE International Transactions‚ p.PS41 4. BBC News‚ “BA postpones long-haul move to T5”‚ 11.4.08 9. BBC News‚ “Valleywood Studio is £15m in red”‚ 22.4.06 10. Bishop (1992)‚ “Creating a ‘Sense of Urgency’”
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The traditional chemical and process manufacturing (CPM) industry is at the cusp of a massive digital transformation. Companies and their industrial processes need to adapt to this rapid change if they are not to be left behind by developments in the industry and by their competitors. The focus during this transformation would be around Customer Engagement‚ Supplier Relationships and Business networks‚ Big Data Analytics‚ Cloud‚ Mobility‚ Internet of Things‚ etc. Customer centricity and engagement
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