Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Solved Problem

Assume you have the project network diagram shown in ­Figure 11.17 and you have identified a resource conflict in which Cheryl is scheduled to work on two tasks at the same time. In this case, Cheryl has become the constrained resource for your project. How would you reconfigure this portion of the project’s network diagram to better manage your critical resource? What would be the new “critical chain”?

FIGURE 11.17 Current Network

FIGURE 11.18 Solution to Solved Problem Critical Chain Network

Figure 11.18 Full Alternative Text

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