exercises

Exercises are self-motivated activities to keep fit. Here at the CPM tutor, exercises are provided to assist you to practice what you have learned in previous sections of the tutorial. The exercises in Chapter 9 are provided to assist you to assess your understanding of the management techniques discussed in Chapter 8.

exercise 1

Begin this exercise by preparing a precendence diagram. This will assist you to layout a fenced bar chart that will be used to evaluate project resources.

Activity ID Prior Duraiton Resource 1 Resource 2
A - 4 3 4
B A, C 9 2 6
C - 8 6 4
D A, E 4 2 6
E - 3 4 2
F A 5 1 8

Notes: (1) All durations are in working days. (2) resource columns indicate number of workers per day required to achive identified duration.

a. Assume that there are only 10 units of "Resource 1" are available per work day. Allocate Resource 1 according to an Total Float and Early Start sort.

b. Assume that only 14 units of "Resource 2" are available per work day. Allocate Resource 2 accordaing to the Early Finish and Total FLoat sort.