Animation of a planning

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Animation of a planning

• The following slides contain an animation of the
  planningof a list of activities.
• First, you will see a network diagram
• Followed by a calculation of the critical path
  and
• Finally, a drawing of a Gantt chart.
• Click to go to the next step of the schedule.
• This example is about the installation of a
  central heating system that uses a boiler and hot
  water to distribute the heat.
• Durations are in days.
• Activities provided str beyond discussion.
• Estimate the total duration first.
• This animation is part of the book Project
  Management written by Roel Grit and published
  by Wolters-Noordhoff

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Schedule Example
Installation of heating system Assignment
Estimate the total duration before analyzing!
Draw First network diagram, then critical chain,
then Gantt chart
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Schedule - Solution
Network diagram
Pert chart
Delivers
Critical path 14
B6
A2
F2
C5
F2
H2
G4
D2
E2
H2
G4
Bar chart

• Important terms
• Critical path
• Slack time
• ASAP (activity C)
• ALAP (activity C, critical)
• Must start on
• Milestones
• Resources

Draw critical path first
Gantt chart
C5
slack
F2
slack
D2
E2
slack D, E