Chapter Outline

Chapter 5 dealt with determining which activities need to be done and in what sequence in order to accomplish a project objective. The result was a plan in the form of a network diagram that graphically portrayed activities in the appropriate interdependent sequence to accomplish the project work scope. When network planning techniques are used, the scheduling function depends on the planning function. A schedule is a timetable for a plan and, therefore, cannot be established until the plan has been developed. In this chapter, we will establish a schedule for the plan. You will become familiar with

• estimating the duration for each activity
• establishing the estimated start time and required completion time for the overall project
• calculating the earliest times at which each activity can start and finish, based on the project's estimated start time
• calculating the latest times by which each activity must start and finish in order to complete the project by its required completion time
• determining the amount of positive or negative slack between the time each activity can start or finish and the time it must start or finish
• identifying the critical (longest) path of activities

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