Chapter 16
Task Scheduling
Chapter Objectives
This chapter discusses the following concepts:
• How tasks are represented in tabular and graphical formats
• What critical and noncritical paths are
• How forward- and backward-pass scheduling methods—both early start/early finish and late start/late finish—are used
• How total slack time and free slack time are computed
• How the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) can improve estimation
• What the critical path method (CPM) is
• How a calendar schedule for the project can be created
Chapter 16 should be viewed as introducing a set of techniques that may be applied to and enhance task analysis, a topic that was discussed in detail in Chapter 2.
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