Complete this exercise in MSProject. Assume a start date of June 1 of the current year and a normal 5-day work week. Submit both your MSProject file and your answers to the questions below.Consider a...

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Complete this exercise in MSProject. Assume a start date of June 1 of the current year and a normal 5-day work week. Submit both your MSProject file and your answers to the questions below.



Consider a project that consists of 8 tasks with predecessors and task estimates as shown:





















































Task





Predecessor





Duration



A



-



2



B



-



7



C



A



4



D



B, C



8



E



D



8



F



D



6



G



E



3



H



E, F



6





  1. What is the critical path and what is the expected time to complete the project?



  2. If you want to shorten the project to 25 days, which tasks could you “crash” to do that? Assume you can shorten any task by up to 3 days at a cost of $100/day.





Exercise: Scheduling in MSProject Complete this exercise in MSProject. Assume a start date of June 1 of the current year and a normal 5-day work week. Submit both your MSProject file and your answers to the questions below. Consider a project that consists of 8 tasks with predecessors and task estimates as shown: Task Predecessor Duration A - 2 B - 7 C A 4 D B, C 8 E D 8 F D 6 G E 3 H E, F 6 1) What is the critical path and what is the expected time to complete the project? 2) If you want to shorten the project to 25 days, which tasks could you “crash” to do that? Assume you can shorten any task by up to 3 days at a cost of $100/day.
Answered 1 days AfterFeb 04, 2023

Answer To: Complete this exercise in MSProject. Assume a start date of June 1 of the current year and a normal...

Khushboo answered on Feb 06 2023
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1) Critical path and expected time to complete the project
The critical path consists of tasks B, D
, E, and H. The expected time to complete the project with a normal 5 - day work week and no overtime will be of (7+8+8+6) 29 days.
2) Crashing the task to make project duration of 25 days
Crashing the task can be understood as the reduction in...
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