EP Wk10

Q1,Q2 - 450 words ($7.5)

Q1. Reflect on     Chapter 9: Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path   Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.  

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions

Q2.  Consider a project such as moving to a new neighborhood, completing a long-term school assignment, or even cleaning your bedroom.  Develop a set of activities necessary to accomplish that project, and then order them in a precedence manner to create sequential logic.  Explain and defend the number of steps you identified and the order in which you placed those steps for best completion of the project.

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Q3. Activity 10 in Separate document - 4 full pages(excluding references) ($20)

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                                                             Time Estimates (week) 

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Activity                Optimistic            Most Likely           Pessimistic           Immediate Predecessor(s)

A                                  1                            4                           7                               —

B                                  2                            6                          10                              —

C                                  3                            3                           9                               B

D                                  6                           13                         14                              A

E                                  4                            6                          14                             A, C

F                                  6                            8                          16                              B

G                                  2                           5                            8                             D, E, F

a. Calculate the expected activity times (round to nearest integer).

b. Calculate the activity slacks.  What is the total project length?  Make sure you fully label all nodes in the network.

c. Identify the critical path.  What are the alternative paths and how much slack time is associated with each noncritical path?

d. Identify the burst activities and the merge activities.

e. Given the activity variances, what is the likelihood of the project finishing on week 24?

f. Suppose you wanted to have a 99% confidence in the project finishing on time.  How many additional weeks would your project team need to negotiate for in order to gain this 99% likelihood?