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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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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Frist step ‚ collecting the data from Yahoo. Finance‚ and calculate the quarterly return by the formula (return of fourth mouth- the return of frist mouth)/ retrun og first mouth Question a Average quarterly return= average (all returns of one asset) Standard deviations= stdeva (all returns of one asset) Question b and c File—options—add-ins—solver add in--go‚ and click all the options‚ then using the data analysis‚ choosing correlation (covariance)‚ then selecting all the returns of all
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Case study #1 1. Prepare a variable- costing income statement to determine the profitability of the Costco opportunity. Costco Wholesale Corporation Variable-costing Income Statement For two months Volume level 30‚000 45‚000 60‚000 Sales @ $4.25 per pound $127‚500.00 $191‚250.00 $255‚000.00 Less: Variable expenses: Salmon fillet cost @ $3/pound $90‚000.00 $135‚000.00 $180‚000.00 Repackaging labor @ $9/hour‚ repackage 75 pound/ hour $3‚600.00 $5‚400
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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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Fleeing southwards in search of new abodes after the fall of the Oyo Empire‚ the Oyos started settling among the Ifes in 1834. As the Romans of old‚ they were soldier-farmers. They were hardy as soldiers and industrious as farmers. Having lost all their possessions in their hasty flight‚ they started life in Ife by doing menial jobs to enable them eke out a living. The reigning Ooni of Ife‚ Oba Akinmoyero was said to have received them well. They started growing and producing different types of food
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Statistics and parameters. Properties for a statistic. Central Limit Theorem. Distribution of the sample mean‚ difference in means and the proportion. Point and interval estimates for the mean‚ difference in means‚ and proportion. Hypotheses testing and types of errors. Significance levels and p values. Small sample testing: Chi square‚ t and F distributions and their properties. Applications of chi square and t distributions to interval estimates and tests. UNIT 2 : CLASSICAL TWO VARIABLE LINEAR
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Apple IFE Matrix Analysis It was pretty surprising to me to find that all the different groups came up with fairly similar ratings in their IFE matrix for Apple Inc. My group‚ management‚ had the second highest rating at a 2.78 and I felt that we were fairly critical of the different strengths and weaknesses for the company. The groups that pertained to a more financial aspect like finance and accounting seemed to have lower scores‚ which were not as far above the average for utilization of resources
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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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Excel system MIS 241-001 NC A&T State University A. Define the competitive advantages of an Excel system in general. An Excel system is very useful in the business world allowing many tasks to be overcome more effortlessly. One advantage is calculations enabling issues to be solved with few errors when dealing with placement of numbers and topic in there needed category; along with number placement there is also so many tools and formulas that make finding an answer so much easier
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