Project Scheduling
Project, objectives, tasks and activities are
now defined but:
- Need to define PRECEDENCE RELATIONSHIPS of the
activities
Questions to ask:
- Which activities are you going to start with?
- Which need to
wait for the completion of another?
- Which tasks need to be completed
simultaneously?
The sequencing of activities are influenced by:
- Technical requirements
- Efficiency
- Availability of resources
- Policies
Scheduling Tools
Each activity is assigned a number, and time is plotted along
the horizontal axis. This kind of chart was developed by Henry
Gantt during WWI.
Gantt Charts are useful because:
- Easy
- Indicate the status of each activity
- Allow tracking of progress.
- Allow for what–if analysis
- Can be drawn to show budgets,
needed resources, and equipment usage instead of activities.
However Gantt Charts:
- do not show precedence relationships
- are at times tedious to update
Example of a Gantt Chart:
Task Name Week Number
6 7 8 9 10 11
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Project Networks
A pictorial representation of the activities and their precedence
relationships.
Are made up of nodes and arcs
Arcs represent the activities
Project Duration: 12 weeks (Longest path)
The longest path is called the critical path
Activities a, d, f, g, h, j are the critical activities
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