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Assignment on Project Duration Analysis

This document contains two questions for an assignment. Question 1 has 7 sub-questions about drawing a network diagram showing the relationships and durations of 6 activities, and calculating the critical path duration, various floats, and how changes could impact the project timeline. Question 2 provides data on crashing durations and costs for 4 activities and asks how one activity would be crashed to save 3 months, and the cost of crashing the project.

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Assignment on Project Duration Analysis

This document contains two questions for an assignment. Question 1 has 7 sub-questions about drawing a network diagram showing the relationships and durations of 6 activities, and calculating the critical path duration, various floats, and how changes could impact the project timeline. Question 2 provides data on crashing durations and costs for 4 activities and asks how one activity would be crashed to save 3 months, and the cost of crashing the project.

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Assignment # 1

Name:

Student Number:

Question 1 [12 Marks]

Draw a network diagram and answer the questions below:


(Please show all your workings or explanation; simple answers alone will not account for full marks)

 Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of three weeks.
 Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of three weeks.
 Activity 3 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of six weeks.
 Activity 4 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of eight weeks.
 Activity 5 can start after activity 4 is completed and after activity 3 is completed. This activity takes four weeks.

1. What is the duration of the critical path?

2. What is the float of activity 3?

3. What is the float of activity 2?

4. What is the float of the path with the longest float?

5. The resource working on activity 3 is replaced with another resource who is less experienced. The activity will now take 10
weeks. How will this affect the project?
6. Using the original information, after some arguing between stakeholders, a new activity 6 is added to the project. It will take
11 weeks to complete and must be completed before activity 5 and after activity 3. Management is concerned that adding the
activity will add 11 weeks to the project. Another stakeholder argues the time will be less than 11 weeks. Who is correct?

7. Based on the information in number 6 above, how much longer will the project take?

Question 2 [13 Marks]

Activity Original Crash Time Original Crash Extra Cost per


Duration Duration Savings Cost in Cost Cost Month
(in (in Dollars
Months) Months)
F 14 12 2 10,000 14,000 4,000 2,000
A 9 8 1 17,000 27,000 10,000 10,000
H 3 2 1 25,000 26,000 1,000 1,000
G 7 5 2 10,000 16,000 6,000 3,000
C 11 8 3 27,000 36,000 9,000 3,000

1. Imagine that this project has a project float of -3 (minus three) months. Which activity or activities presented above would you
crash to save three months on the project, assuming that the activities listed above represent critical path activities?

2. How much would it cost to crash this project?

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