Example 1: Reference for the first questions on critical path and crashing of a Marketing Campaign.

1. What is the duration of creating a marketing campaign?

2. What tasks are on the critical path?

ABCEF

ADEF

ACEF

ABF

3 .What is the Bottleneck task?

E

C

F

B

A

D

4. Now assume you can save $200 a day for each day you crash the project. Which task(s) would you crash first by 1 day? Consider this Round 1 of crashing.

crash by only 1 day at a time for each round. For example, if you determine to crash A by 2 days, select A for your first crash and second crash answer.

5. After completing round 1 crash by 1 day, which task(s) would you crash in round 2?

crash by only 1 day at a time for each round.

6. After completing round 2 crash, which task(s) would you crash in round 3?

crash by only 1 day at a time for each round.

7. What is the cumulative dollar savings by crashing the project by 3 days?

ET Cost to Duration Reduce Minimum Task Label Task Description Predecessor (Days) by 1 day Duration A Project Brief None 3 $250 1 B Photoshoot A 6 $100 4 Purchase Media A 4 $50 3 D Website Updates A 2 $100 1 E Initial Approval C,D 3 $75 1 F Final Approval BE Assume daily benefit of crashing is $200 A 3 Nm N N