GRA 530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Path Method, Work Breakdown Structure
8 Jan 2014
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The more people you put on a task the less time it will take to complete the task. Just because you put more people on a task doesn"t make it more productive. Jumping from one project to another can slow you down. Have to hit all the milestones to hit the deadline: zero float has no flexibility, need to meet specific deadlines without any flexibility. Slide 25: buying christmas presents on the 24th is considered to be a critical path. It"s the critical path because you have to finish all task to meet the deadline. Slide 26: charts developed in the turn of the century, been around for a while because they work. Slide 27: go back and figure out if you can maximize resources. Slide 28: to have people jumping around from project to project is not always productive, over allocation: some people on the team do more work than others.
