5Planning the Activities

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Create a network diagram.

• Determine the critical path.

SEQUENCING ACTIVITIES

An important part of project planning is determining the logical workflow of the various activities you identified in the work breakdown structure. This chapter will teach you how to create a network diagram, which is a graphical flow plan of the activities that must be accomplished to complete the project. The diagram illustrates which activities must be performed in sequence (after the previous activity is completed) and which can be done in parallel (at the same time). ...

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