Critical Path Analysis and Other Project Network TechniquesThis text is intended for those who wish to assess the value of project network techniques (PNT) in dealing with their own problems and for those who wish to put the technique into practice. This revised edition discusses resource analysis and contains a chapter on practical considerations which has been prepared setting out day-to-day practice which the authors have found useful. In addition the chapter on control of cash has been amplified and the line of balance chapter now includes discussion of the elemental trend analysis technique. The Solutions Manual has been converted into a lecturer's manual whose purpose is to help tutors by reducing the time taken in the drawing of networks. The manual contains A4-size drawings of the key diagrams in the text and all the answers to the quesitons. |
Contents
The Gantt chart The difficulties with the Gantt chart | 7 |
Dummy activities Identity dummies Logic dummies Transit time | 22 |
Elements of an AoN network The representation of time in | 32 |
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20 weeks Activities involved Activity Duration activity-on-arrow aggregation arrow diagram backward pass bar chart batch BCWP BCWS breakdown structure British Railways budgeted cost calculations carried committed complete considered constraints cost centre cost control critical path Critical Path Analysis Critical Path Method depends on activity depends on tasks discussed Draw the network dummy earliest Early Late estimated event example final assembly finishing Inspect forward pass Free float Gantt chart heaters histogram increase Independent float latest finish LINE OF BALANCE logic lower bound machine material obtained possible preceding activities problem procedure production project management project network techniques QUESTION reduced represented resource analysis resource requirements result schedule shown in Fig situation started sub-assembly tail event task L depends Test component Total float total project units variance Week number wharves