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Float Trend Chart

April 29, 2010 by

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“We’ve had to start some of these project activities a little later than we had hoped—how has our wiggle-room for starting these remaining activities changed?” Float (also called slack) is how much time a certain project activity’s start can be delayed without delaying the finish date of the entire project. Please see the earlier posting […]

Float

April 28, 2010 by

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“How long can I put off starting this activity and not be in trouble?” When managing a project schedule, each activity in the schedule network diagram should have its float indicated. Float (also called slack) is how much time a certain project activity’s start can be delayed without delaying the finish date of the entire […]

Critical Path Method Explained with Cookies

August 6, 2009 by

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The Critical Path Method (CPM) is a scheduling technique that demonstrates the time periods for which it’s possible to perform a project activity. This is accomplished through calculating for each activity the early start, late start, early finish, and late finish. Individual activities also have float, which is the amount of flexible time for the […]

Develop Schedule Process

March 10, 2009 by

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Develop Schedule is one of the 42 project management processes described in the fourth edition PMBOK®. It’s one of the six Time knowledge area processes, and one of the twenty Planning processes. The purpose of this particularly important process is to create the project schedule. This is the most important Time process, and there are […]