What is project management‚ and what are its main objectives? What is the relationship between tasks and events‚ or milestones? What is a work breakdown structure? How do you create one? What are task patterns‚ and how can you recognize them? Compare the advantages and disadvantages of Gantt and PERT/CPM charts. Define the following terms: best-case estimate‚ probable-case estimate‚ and worst- case estimate‚ and describe how project managers use these concepts. How does a project manager calculate
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Critical Path Procedure 1. Develop a list of the activities that make up the project. 2. Determine the immediate predecessor(s) for each activity in the project. 3. Estimate the completion time for each activity. For example: Activity Immediate Predecessor Time A - 3 B - 1 C - 2 D A‚ B‚ C 4 E C‚ D 5 F A 3 G D‚ F 6 H
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Critical Path Analysis (CPA) Critical Path Analysis: A project-management technique that lays out all the activities needed to complete a task‚ the time it will take to complete each activity and the relationships between the activities. Sets out all the individual activities that make up a larger project. Shows the order in which activities have to be undertaken. Shows which activities can only take place once other activities have been completed. Shows which activities can be undertaken
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Management‚ National Central University‚ No. 300‚ Jhongda Rd.‚ Jhongli City‚ Taoyuan County 32001‚ Taiwan b R&D Center for Construction Project Management‚ Chung Hua University‚ No.707‚ Sec.2‚ WuFu Rd.‚ Hsinchu‚ 300 Taiwan Received 7 February 2010; received in revised form 12 June 2011; accepted 16 June 2011 Abstract Assessing schedule delay ’s impact on total project duration to distribute delay liability remains a controversy. None of existing delay analysis methods is perfect because including an
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Decision Making 11-13. Benefits of Quantitative techniques 14-17. Decision tree Diagram parts 18-23. Steps of the CPM of project planning 24-25. Two possible ways of representing activity in Network Planning Techniques 26-30. Parts of project network 31-32. Two project management techniques 33-36. 4 situations in network diagram 37-40. 4 Events in History Critical Path Method (CPM) Answers: 1. Formulating the problem 2. Defining decision variable and constraints 3
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request. According to the network diagram above The critical path of the project is: Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 5 Activity 7 Activity 10 Activity 13 Activity 15 As audit of liquid assets (activity 4) is not on the critical path‚ it is not a critical activity. This slack job has a slack time of 178 hours for which slack time= late start time – early start time (231-53) = late finish time – early finish time (266-88). The project duration will not be affected even if David takes his
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Objectives - MS Project 2010 * Change the task type settings to control how resources affect task assignments * Apply a preset resource contour to change work value distribution * Working with task information forms When planning a project schedule‚ adjustments are often needed to reflect necessary changes in project scope‚ assignments‚ etc. In MS Project‚ when an assignment is changed‚ the schedule is recalculated to display the changes. You can work with the scheduling
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commandment is most important to you‚ and develop an 11th commandment you would add. When initially utilizing the MS Project software I anticipated it working just like the Microsoft Excel software‚ which was not the case. Therefore‚ the commandment that is most important to me would be‚ Commandment #6 – Thou shall be patient in using the tutorial and help function to learn MS Project. I feel that in order for the application to add up and be understood one must comprehend the basic elements of
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standards and specification for treating customers. "While service is declining in other industries‚ The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company‚ L.L.C. has continued to increase it’s business and offer its guests unparalleled levels of customer service‚" said Ms. Oreck (n.d) - Vice President of The Leadership Center for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company‚ L.L.C. "This can only be done
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CPM - Critical Path Method In 1957‚ DuPont developed a project management method designed to address the challenge of shutting down chemical plants for maintenance and then restarting the plants once the maintenance had been completed. Given the complexity of the process‚ they developed the Critical Path Method (CPM) for managing such projects. CPM provides the following benefits: Provides a graphical view of the project. Predicts the time required to complete the project. Shows which
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