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The document outlines the structure and key concepts of project scheduling, including network diagrams, critical path, and duration estimation methods. It emphasizes the importance of understanding task interdependencies and provides terminology related to project scheduling. Additionally, it discusses rules for creating network diagrams and methods for estimating activity durations.

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09 - Project Scheduling Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path - Part1

The document outlines the structure and key concepts of project scheduling, including network diagrams, critical path, and duration estimation methods. It emphasizes the importance of understanding task interdependencies and provides terminology related to project scheduling. Additionally, it discusses rules for creating network diagrams and methods for estimating activity durations.

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Project Scheduling:

Networks, Duration estimation,


and Critical Path
Project Management Project Scheduling
Course Structure
Introduction
Projects and Strategy
Project Selection and Portfolio Management
Project Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing and Activity Networks
Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration estimation, and Critical
Path
Risk Management
Resource Management
Project Evaluation and Control
Agile Project Management
Critical Chain Project Scheduling
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Network diagram
• A schematic display of the project’s sequential
activities and the logical relationships
between them

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A network…
 clearly illustrates the interdependence of all
tasks
 facilitates communication flows
 helps with allocating organizational resources
 identifies the critical activities
 determines when you can expect projects to
be completed
 shows when various project activities must
start and end 6
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Key Scheduling Terminology
• Path—A sequence of activities defined by the project
network logic.
• Event—A point when an activity is either started or
completed.
• Predecessors—Those activities that must be
completed prior to initiation of a later activity in the
network.
• Successors—Activities that cannot be started until
previous activities have been completed.
• Critical path—The path through the project network
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Rules of thumb
1. Determination of activity precedence ordering
must be done prior to creating the network
2. Network diagrams usually flow from left to
right
3. An activity cannot begin until all preceding
connected activities have been completed
4. Arrows on networks indicate precedence and
logical flow
5. Each activity should have a unique identifier
associated with it
6. Looping, or recycling through activities, is not
permitted
7. it is common to start a project from a single
beginning node

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Labeling Nodes

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Sequence of activities

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Example

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AOA vs. AON
The same mini-project is shown with activities
on arrow…
D E
B F
C
…and activities on node.

D E
B F

C
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Node Labels

Early ID Early
Start Number Finish
Activity
Activity Descriptor
Float
Late Activity Late
Start Duration Finish
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Duration Estimation Methods
• Past experience
• Expert opinion
• Mathematical derivation – Beta
distribution
ba
2

– Most likely (m) Activity Variance = s  


2

 6 
– Most pessimistic (b)
– Most optimistic (a)
a  4m  b
Activity Duration = TE 
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1. Sketch the network described in the table.


2. Determine the expected duration and variance of each
activity.

Task Predecessor a m b
A -- 7 8 15
B A 13 16 19
C A 14 18 22
D B, C 12 14 16
E D 1 4 13
F D 6 10 14
G F, E 11 14 19
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E
B

A D G
C
F

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Education, Inc. Publishing 9-18
as Prentice Hall
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Task Predecessor a m b Var. TE


A -- 7 8 15 1.78 9
B A 13 16 19 1 16
C A 14 18 22 1.78 18
D B, C 12 14 16 0.44 14
E D 1 4 13 4 5
F D 6 10 14 1.78 10
G F, E 11 14 19 1.78 14.3

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Critical Path ………………..

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