Project Implementation: Answer all the questions below US$242914$ SO$1$ AC$1,3$; SO$2$ AC$1$; SO$3$ AC$1,2$; SO$5,$ AC$1,$ CCFO Identifying, Organising

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$1.$ Explain the statement, $$Critical tasks have zero float.$$

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$2.$ Explain the significance of critical and non$-$critical tasks.

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$3.$ Explain the concept of $$float$.$

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$4.$ Identify the tools used at your organisation to highlight the critical path of your projects. Do different divisions use the same tools? How does the use of these tools influence project delivery at your organisation?

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$5.$ Assume that the project must be reduced in time by $20\%.$ Determine the critical path and then explain the actions you could take to $$crash$$ the project by $20\%.$

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$6.$ Use the tools at your disposal to create the WBS$,$ network diagram and Gantt chart for the project you identified.

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$7.$ Explain the importance of sharing the critical pathing for your projects with other divisions at your organisation.

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$8.$ Based on your experience of projects, identify examples of where resource levelling and resource smoothing have been used $($or could have been used$).$

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$9.$ Discuss resource smoothing as a technique you could use in your division to improve on project delivery and project scheduling.

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