Chapter 10: Project Schedule Planning READ CHAPTER 10 BEFORE STARTING THIS ASSIGNMENT This is a learning experience, it is more important that you try and do your best. Email me with questions. Watch...

Chapter 10: Project Schedule Planning

READ CHAPTER 10 BEFORE STARTING THIS ASSIGNMENT

This is a learning experience, it is more important that you try and do your best.

Email me with questions.

Watch the short video on Project Libre. This is part of the learning material and does not represent what is required in the following assignment.NOTE: If you do not have Microsoft Project, you need to download and install ProjectLibre which is what you will use to create diagrams and Gantt chart. The software creates the Gantt chart after you enter the data. Go tohttps://www.projectlibre.com/

(Links to an external site.)and select download from thePROJECTLIBRE

Use theUsing Project Management software.pdf


attachment document for the Project Management software assignment:

Part I

The project title isMRI and you are the Project Manager.This project is an assignment to see how Project software works. Do your best and do not over stress.

Learning Material

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  Forwardscheduling is when businesses complete manufacturing their items as soon as possible before the due date. Production begins as soon as the manufacturing order is created and the item should be ready three days before it is due (assuming there are no snags along the way).
  


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  What is a critical path in project management?
  

Inproject management, acritical pathis the sequence ofprojectnetwork activities which add up to the longest overall duration, regardless if that longest duration has float or not. This determines the shortest time possible to complete theproject. There can be 'total float' (unused time) within thecritical path.

Part II

Writing Exercise

In your own words, write definitions for project fast-tracking and project crashing.

1. Consider the plan you prepared. If you were informed by management that you must reduce the planned duration of the project by five days, describe how you, as a project manager, could crash or fast track this project. Be specific in identifying exactly what could be changed in the project plan for each option.If the request to speed up the project occurs after day 25 of the original schedule, what is the only option available?
   
   

Go online and research the difference between total slack and free slack.

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   1. Write definitions of total slack and free slack in your own words.
   
   
   2. Why would the distinction between different forms of slack be important to a project manager?