Table 7.4 provides information about a refurbishment project of a residential property. a. How many weeks will

Question:

Table 7.4 provides information about a refurbishment project of a residential property.
a. How many weeks will it take to complete this project and what is the total slack?
b. As the project manager, you are interested in completing your project as soon as possible by allocating additional resources. The only option is to redeploy manpower from one task to another. However, other tasks will suffer a corresponding delay due to redeployment. Given this situation, will it be possible to reduce overall project duration? Activity START A B C D E F G FINISH Activity Time (weeks) 0 3 5 6 8 5 3 2 0 Predecessor(s) START START A C D