Developing the Project Schedule
A key advantage of network planning methods is the creation of a schedule of project activities that will help managers achieve the objectives of the project. Given a project network, managers can (1) estimate the completion time of a project by finding the critical path, (2) identify the start and finish times for each activity for a project schedule, and (3) calculate the amount of slack time for each activity.
Critical Path
A crucial aspect of project management is estimating the time of completion of a project. If each activity in relocating the hospital were done in sequence, with work proceeding on only one activity at a time, the time of completion would equal the sum of the times for all the activities, ...
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