Mp asm 2012

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Managing Projects

SIM335

Prepared by: TRAN THI MAI THANH

Student ID: 119107003/1

Submission Date: 9 th

January, 2012

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Number of Words:

Part A: 720

Part B: 2,850

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Part 1:

The Network Diagram Information

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Table of Contents

TITLE PAGE ....................................................................................................................................................... 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................................... 3

1. NETWORK DIAGRAM .............................................................................................................................. 4

2. TIMING OF ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................................... 6

3. PROJECT DURATION AND CRITICAL PATH ...................................................................................... 6

4. EARLIEST FINISH DATE ......................................................................................................................... 7

5. EFFECTS ON THE PROJECT'S DURATION .......................................................................................... 7

6. BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF NETWORK DIAGRAM ................................................................ 7

REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

APPENDIX: CALENDAR AND USE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE................................... 10

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1. Network Diagram

In order to make this company‟s project clearly, "Activity-on-Node‟ technique (refer to

Field & Keller, 2007, pp. 197-202) is used to draw network diagram. The detail is as following:

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Chart 1: Network Diagram

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2. Timing of Activities

All timing of activities is identified by using forward pass and backward pass

methods. The forward pass start with the project start activity and run forward from left to

right, the earliest start time (EST) at any node is equal to the biggest earliest finish time

(EFT) of...