PPMP20007 Project Management Concepts - Workshop Questions

Week 5 Workshop

Q3 The following questions are based on network diagram below:

Given the project network diagram above, complete the forward and backward pass, compute the slack for each activity and identify the critical path. 

1. Complete the following table
2. What is the most critical path(s) for this project? (If there is more than one critical path, list the activities/tasks on each of the paths separately.)Use Excel to create a Gantt chart for the project. On the Gantt chart, show when the activities are scheduled using “grey” colour fill, show slack using yellow colour fill and underline the critical path in red (achieved with red underscore characters ____).

3. The colour fill icon is shown below:

   To illustrate what is required, an example of a small Gantt chart developed in Excel is shown below.

   Take a screen shot of your Gantt chart and include the screenshot in the week 5 template.

4. What would happen to the project duration if activity B took an additional 2 weeks? Explain.

5. What would happen to the project duration if activity E took an additional 2 weeks? Explain.

6. What would happen to the project duration if activity F took an additional 2 weeks? Explain.

The answers to exercises 1, 2 and 3 are to be completed in the week 5 template. The template and practical2.mpp files are to be zipped and submitted in Assessment Item 2 part 3 (week 5 workshop).