Exam 14: Managing Projects

A hatmaker, fresh off a very successful showing at Lidzapalooza is excited about the prospects of providing the finest chapeaus to meet the needs of his energized customer base in the coming year. He and his space designer have identified seven activities that are necessary to expand his small shop. For the sake of simplicity, and to avoid giving away any trade secrets, the activities have been identified by letters A-G. The activities, their time estimates, and the precedence requirements are listed in the table immediately below. Use this scenario to answer the following question(s). Activity Predecessors Time (weeks) A - 7 B A 6 C A 10 D C 12 E B, C 5 F D, E 11 G F 8 -Refer to the scenario above. Which of these activities has slack?

Complete this table containing earliest and latest start times and activity lengths. Activity Predecessor Length Earliest Start Earliest Finish Latest Start Latest Finish A - 11 11 0 11 B A 11 17 20 C B, D 30 20 30 D A 11 20 11 20 E D 4 30 F C, E, G 10 30 G A 11 20 30

The actual work gets done during the ________ phase of a project.

An activity's duration added to its earliest start time yields the ________.

The earliest finish time of an activity is always later than its latest start time.