1. What is the critical path?

2. Which activities have more than five weeks of slack?

3. The new CEO wants to complete the project two weeks early. Which crashing scenario reduces the two weeks with the lowest cost, i.e. how many times do you have to crash each activity?

Two international banks are integrating two financial processing software systems as a result of their merger. Preliminary analysis and interviews with all parties involved resulted in the following project information. The "systems integration team" for this project plans to define and manage the project on two levels. The following activities represent an aggregate view, and within each activity is a more detailed view with subtasks and project networks defined. All times are in weeks. Immediate Predecessors Activity Crash Time 1 1 2 1 Normal Time 3 1 2 3 5 3 7 5 8 IGUALOIH Normal Cost $1,000 $4,000 $2,000 $5,000 $2,500 $2,000 $4,500 $3,000 $8,000 Crash Cost, $6,000 $4,000 $2,000 $6,000 $3,800 $3,000 $8,500 $3,800 $17,000 E E, F D, G, H 2 5 4