2 PROJECT PLANNING
LEARNING OUTCOMES
When you have completed this chapter you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following:
- project deliverables and intermediate products;
- work and product breakdowns;
- product definitions (including the identification of ‘derived from’ and ‘component of’ relationships between products);
- relationship between products and activities in a project;
- checkpoints and milestones;
- elapsed time and effort required for activities;
- activity networks (using the ‘activity on node’ notation);
- calculation of earliest and latest start and end dates of activities and the resulting float;
- identification and significance of critical paths;
- resource allocation, smoothing and levelling, including the use of resource ...
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