Term Project – Part 4 (worth 40 points) You represent Acme Technology and are hiring a subcontractor to assist you in installing a network with desktop computers, monitors, printers, servers, cabling and software in an office building. This is the culmination of the term project. In this final assignment, you will take the information that you entered in Part 3 of the term project and create a project network diagram showing the schedule in a graphic format, using the Activity-on-Node method. Your assignment is: From the table you submitted in Part 3, create a project network, showing correct precedence relationships.
Activity C Duration: 18 days (17, 35) [82, 100]
Activity A Duration: 17 days (0, 17) [0, 17]
Activity D Duration: 83 days (17, 100) [17, 100] Activity E Duration: 78 days (17, 95) [22, 100]
Activity G Duration: 101 days (100, 201) [100, 201]
Activity H Duration: 38 days (201, 239) [201, 239]
Activity I Duration: 38 days (201, 239) [201, 239]
Activity B Duration: lgth of proj. (0, 295) [0, 295]
Activity J Duration: 18 days (239, 257) [239, 257]
Activity K Duration: 38 days (257, 295) [257,295]
Activity F Duration: 18 days (17, 35) [82, 100]
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in TermProj3 I gave the duration as a high/low number, for simplicity’s sake I used the average of that time frame rounded up
What is the duration of your project? The duration of my project is 295 days. What is the critical path? The critical path of my project is the activities in this sequence: A-D-G-H(I)-J-K How much slack does each activity have?
There are not many activities in this project with slack. The ones with slack are Activities C, E, and F. Activities C and F have a large slack time of 65 days, while E has a slack time of 5 days.