Imaging that you are a team leader in the marketing department at Apple. Your team needs...

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Imaging that you are a team leader in the marketing department at Apple. Your team needs to develop a marketing campaign to launch a new product. You realized that the project cannot be completed on time according to the current schedule and thus need to find a minimum cost plan to crash the project to finish it within 17 days. What is your plan? Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) NT (days) CT (days) Cost/day A -- 6 6 B A 10 8 $500 C 5 4 $300 D C 4 1 $700 E Ꭰ 9 7 $600 F B.E 2 1 $800 1. Draw a network diagram and do a forward/backwards pass. 2. What is the critical path and expected completion time of the project? 3. Which activities do you crash and what is the total cost? Imaging that you are a team leader in the marketing department at Apple. Your team needs to develop a marketing campaign to launch a new product. You realized that the project cannot be completed on time according to the current schedule and thus need to find a minimum cost plan to crash the project to finish it within 17 days. What is your plan? Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) NT (days) CT (days) Cost/day A -- 6 6 B A 10 8 $500 C 5 4 $300 D C 4 1 $700 E Ꭰ 9 7 $600 F B.E 2 1 $800 1. Draw a network diagram and do a forward/backwards pass. 2. What is the critical path and expected completion time of the project? 3. Which activities do you crash and what is the total cost?

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