Project Management - Understanding Scheduling Computations

Summary:

This course explains how to perform forward and backward computations to determine the critical path in a project network diagram and shows how an activity-on-node network diagram can be changed to make an activity-on-arrow diagram and a bar chart.

This lesson is part of our Project Management online training series which contains over 22 hours of self-paced courseware. Our web-based training provides 6 months of unlimited access.

Objectives:

After completing this course you will be able to:

• List the variables that affect the project schedule as well as the rules for computing project time
• Define forward pass computations
• Define backward pass computations
• Explain the relationship of float to critical path
• Explain how network calculations are performed
• Describe constrained end date scheduling
• Explain how to reduce activity durations
• Describe the use of bar charts in project scheduling
• Demonstrate how to determine the critical path of project

Outline:

• Basics of scheduling computations
• Forward pass computations
• Backward pass computations
• Activity maximum float
• Network calculations
• Constrained end date scheduling
• Reducing activity durations
• Use of the bar chart

Applicability:
This course is for anyone who wants to get the most out of using Project Management.

Prerequisites: None:

Technical Requirements:

• Internet connection
• Browser: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera or any standards compliant browser.
• Authorware and Macromedia Flash player recommended but not required.
• JavaScript must be enabled.

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