Active Model Exercise

Active Model 7.1, Gantt Chart, appears in MyLab Operations Management. It allows you to evaluate the sensitivity of the project time to changes in activity times and activity predecessors. In this exercise we use the data from Example 7.2 to develop a Gantt chart.

A screenshot shows a tabular column with activities, times estimates, and predecessor activities for each activity with a corresponding Gantt chart.

Questions

  1. Activity B and activity K are critical activities. Describe the difference that occurs on the graph when you increase activity B versus when you increase activity K.

  2. Activity F is not critical. Use the scroll bar to determine how many weeks you can increase activity F until it becomes critical.

  3. Activity A is not critical. ...

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