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Assignment 4
Calculate the ES, EF, LS, and LF times and the slack for each activity in the figure below and identify the critical path for the project
Assignment 8
Part A If you were asked to advise someone on how to prepare for and deliver an important presentation, what would you say? For each step listed, state why it is important.
Part B Why are progress reports an integral part of project communications? What should they include? How are they different from a final report?
Explanation & Answer
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Q4.
The critical path is A→B→E→G→H which gives an estimated project duration of 36 weeks.
Based on the estimations in the table below the project can be completed in 40 weeks.
Activity
Estimated
Earliest
Earliest
Latest
Latest
Total
duration
start time
finish
start time
finish
Slack
in weeks
time
time
A
2
0
2
0
2
0
B
10
2
12
2
12
0
C
8
2
10
3
11
1
D
15
2
17
4
19
2
E
7
12
19
12
19
0
F
20
10
30
11
31
1
G
12
19
31
19
31
0
H
5
31
36
31
36
0
With the proposed duration changes to activity A, B and C as stated in the question the expected
project time would be 41 weeks. In order to bring back the schedule to the original estimation of
36 weeks I would focus on Activity A, C, F and H because activity A is a prerequisite to 3
activities so the sooner we finish activity A then the sooner we can start on 3 different fronts.
With activities C, F and H I would focus on them because with the new duration for the activities
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they would now be the activities on the critical path and by adjusting the critical path you can
adjust the whole estimated project duration.
Q8 Part A
Preparing the presentation
➢ What motivates the exposition? Is it to illuminate or to influence? Will guarantee that the
gathering plays out the original capacity.
➢ Know the gathering of people. What is their dimension of learning or commonality with
the subject? Will empower you to outfit the exposition to the crowd you anticipate.
➢ Make a framework of the exposition. Will enable you to compose your musings.
➢ Use primary dialect the group of onlookers will get it. The gathering of people may not
comprehend language or acronyms and feel baffled if your exposition incorporates a
great deal of them.
➢ Prepare notes or the last framework to allude to amid your exposition. Will enable your
conveyance to stream efficiently.
➢ Practice, practice, practice. Will assist you with feeling good giving the exposition:
support your fearlessness and quiet your nerves.
➢ Prepare visual guides and test them to diminish the likelihood of issues amid the real
introduction.
➢ Make duplicates of present materials. On the off chance that gathering peo...
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