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Unit 8: Network Planning Model

10. What is a critical path? How do you calculate it? Notes
11. What is the difference between a free slack and total slack?
12. Explain the following terms:
(a) Fast tracking

(b) Crashing
(c) Lead time
(d) Lag time
13. How do you compress a schedule?

14. What is the purpose of management reserve?
Answers: Self Assessment

1. Project Network Diagram 2. Gantt chart
3. network diagram 4. graphical
5. Nodes 6. Activity
7. Dependency 8. Constraints

9. Technical 10. Slack time
11. initial 12. Parkinson’s
13. AOA 14. dependency

15. lag
8.9 Further Readings

Books Robert K. Wyzocki, Rudd McGary, Effective Project Management, WILEY-
Dreamtech India Pvt. Ltd., 2000.
Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering a Practitioner’s Approach, Fourth Edition,
McGraw Hill International, 2000.
Lan Somerville, Software Engineering, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley
Publications, 1996.
Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell, Software and Project Management, Tata McGraw-
Hill Publishing Company Limited, Third Edition, 2004.

Walker Royce, Software Project Management, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Online links http://ideas.repec.org/p/iim/iimawp/wp00253.html
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&
identifier=AD0673528

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