Chapter 11 Project Management

Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, students will be able to:

  1. 11.1 Understand how to plan, monitor, and control projects with the use of PERT and CPM.

  2. 11.2 Determine earliest start, earliest finish, latest start, latest finish, and slack times for each activity, along with the total project completion time and total project cost.

  3. 11.3 Reduce total project time at the least total cost by crashing the network using manual and linear programming techniques.

  4. 11.4 Understand the important role of software in project management.

Most realistic projects that organizations like Microsoft, General Motors, or the U.S. Defense Department undertake are large and complex. A builder putting up an office ...

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