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Activity Network Diagram (AND)—7M Tool
What Question(s) Does the Tool or Technique Answer?
What is the most efficient way to complete this process or project?
An AND helps you to
• Manage the timing of activities and overall completion of a project or process
• Graphically organize process steps into the most efficient sequence
• Show the most critical path and any parallel paths
• Evaluate and reorganize the step sequence. It identifies any simultaneous tasks and tasks that will take the longest to complete
• Identify any slack time—that is, the amount of time a non-critical path task can be delayed without delaying the project
• Manage resources and understand upstream and downstream dependencies
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