Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains (12th Edition) (What's New in Operations Management)
Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains (12th Edition) (What's New in Operations Management)
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ISBN: 9780134741062
Author: Lee J. Krajewski, Manoj K. Malhotra, Larry P. Ritzman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 3P

A project for improving a billing process has the following precedence relationships and activity times.

Chapter 7, Problem 3P, A project for improving a billing process has the following precedence relationships and activity

  1. Draw the network diagram.
  2. Calculate the slack for each activity. Which activities are on the critical path?

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The table below show a set of activities of an IS project,its expected completion time (ET) and preceding activities. Activity Preceding Activity Expected Time (ET) A - 7 B A 9 C A,B 5 D C 17 E C 12 F C 7 G D,E,F 10 H D,G 7 Draw a network diagram for the IS project shown above.,and  calculate its earliest completion time (TE), latest completion time (TL) and slack time (ST). If  the activity E took 16weeks instead of  12weeks to complete ,what impact will it have on the project duration?
how to draw the path and how to compute the critical path and slack time? Please provide step by step solution.
The following is the data available for a project:  Activity  Predecessor  Expected Duration (Days)  A  -  12  B  A  9  C  B,E  3  D  -  10  E  D  6  F  E  3  G  -  2  H  G  9  I  E,H  2    Expected duration for the completion of the project. Calculate earliest and latest start and finish times for each activity. Draw the network diagram for the project and determine the critical path

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