COMMERCE 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gantt Chart, Critical Path Method, Quality Assurance

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMMERCE 2OC3
• Professor: Yun Zhou

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Rows: activities and in which periods they should be performed (bars) Draw a network model representing the sequence of activities. In the network, activity are nodes and the predecessors are arcs. Compute the times required to complete each activity. Add a start note if there are multiple nodes without predecessors. Add an end node if there are multiple nodes without successors. Key questions we wish to answer using this model. That is, what activities should be completed in time so that the project is not delayed. We will apply a critical path analysis (step 2 of pert) Key initial assumption: activity durations are given (an deterministic, for now) To this end, we need to compute four pieces of information that determine the project schedule: The earliest time at which an activity can start. The earliest time at which an activity can be finished.