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Question 2 – Project Scheduling and Crashing Consider the fo…
Question 2 – Project Scheduling and Crashing Consider the following project: Activity Predecessor Activity Duration (days) Crash Cost ($ / day) Maximum days that activity can be crashed R – 4 2200 2 S – 4 2500 2 T R 3 2000 2 U S 2 3000 1 V T,U 5 5000 2 W T,U 4 3500 2 X V,W 6 1200 1 Y X 3 4500 2 Z X 2 n/a 0 2a) On a blank piece of paper create a WBS in the form of a network diagram. Follow our standard format from class and add in your boxes for ES,EF,LS,LF and put in Task Name and duration (leave room for Slack). Identify the earliest start/earliest finish and latest start/ latest finish times with each activity. In Task R – Start with Day 1 (not 0). Which activities are on the critical path? (Show by Highlighting the path in some way and write the sequence of Activities). This is what your Task R should look like as a starter. (Remember days 1,2,3,4 add up to 4 total work days because you are using day 1 and day 4, the next task should begin with day 5….) 1 4 Task R 4 Days Slack 0 1 4 2b). On the same blank sheet reduce the total project time for this project by 3 days for the lowest cost. (Remember to check your slack and parallel path if need be). Show your work on the side of the sheet in a series of steps and total the amount of cost to obtain this reduction. To submit via Paper: 1. Put your FirstName_LastName on top of the paper with Date and Question number on the top of your sheet and hand to Prof. TBone 2. Type in the Essay Prompt section: ‘I submitted to TBone’ (for those submitting a PDF off of a Tablet – please email or attach in this Prompt) To submit via your Tablet: 1. Put your FirstName_Lastname_MidTerm_FL25 as the file name and upload to Canvas
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