Determining the Project Schedule
Look back at Figure 3.7 (in Example 2) for a moment to see Milwaukee Paper’s completed AON project network. Once this project network has been drawn to show all the activities and their precedence relationships, the next step is to determine the project schedule. That is, we need to identify the planned starting and ending time for each activity.
Let us assume Milwaukee Paper estimates the time required for each activity, in weeks, as shown in Table 3.2. The table indicates that the total time for all eight of the company’s activities is 25 weeks. However, because several activities can take place simultaneously, it is clear that the total project completion time may be less than 25 weeks. To find out just how ...
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