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Critical Path Method and Gantt Charts Thomas F. Piatkowski Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical and

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Critical Path Method and Gantt Charts Thomas F. Piatkowski Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical and

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    1. 1 Critical Path Method and Gantt Charts Thomas F. Piatkowski Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan University

    2. 2 Critical Path Method (CPM)

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    6. 6 Graphics Blocks denote events (milestones and/or deliverables). Fill (shade) blocks (if legibility is OK). Synchronization bars are dummy blocks ... no deliverable ... just a point of synchronization of several arriving paths before down-stream activity can commence. Arcs denote activities.

    7. 7 Labels Title block (title, author/owner, date) Blocks: "1. text " Arcs: "A. text ( n units ) [ ph = person hours ] " Identifies the estimated amount of time to accomplish the activity.

    8. 8 Arcs Solid arcs are "real" activities. Dashed arcs are "dummy" activities used to synchronize parallel paths... give slack... no real work associated.

    9. 9 The critical path That path(s) from start to finish which takes the most time. Any slip in the accomplishment of an arc on the critical path will result in a slip in the finish. Double lined Oversized A CPM chart IS NOT A SCHEDULE ! It is a sequence dependency graph.

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    11. 11 Gantt Chart

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    15. 15 Graphics Title block (title, author/owner, date) Timing row (series of blocks of days (typically)) Activity rows (series of blocks of days (typically)) [ In some styles of Gantt chart, these rows are per worker... as opposed to per activity. ]

    16. 16 Labels Event/milestone deliverables: "1. text Activities: "A. text ( n units) [ person hours ] "

    17. 17 Internal consistency

    18. 18 Consistency between coordinated critical path and Gantt charts

    19. 19 Team Gantt Charts

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    21. 21 Templates The templates cpm.doc gantt.doc are in the class online directory.

    22. 22 Learn all about the MS drawing tools and objects a. grid b. snap to grid c. text boxes d. fill e. line width/style f. arrows g. grouping h. etc... i. Get CorelDraw

    23. 23 Learn all about general MSWord document skills a. First line indent b. Left indent c. Full tab features d. Outlining including customizing, editing e. Outline view f. Inserting page numbers g. Page breaks h. Section breaks i. Total page count j. Footers k. Headers l. Font/size m. Find/replace n. Hanging indent o. Use left alignment only unless otherwise directed p. Tables q. Automatic TofC generation r. etc... s. Get WordPerfect

    24. 24 Q&A

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