Project Management

Assignment $-$ Crashing Project Schedule

A manufacturing company wants to accelerate a project it has underway for a new product in order to beat their competitors to market. They used CPM to develop the project which has the following activities, durations $($in weeks$),$ and costs $($in dollars$),$ and precedence relationships:

a$.$ How many paths are in the project network and what are their durations? Which path is critical?

b$.$ What are the earliest and latest start and finish times for each activity?

c$.$ What activity should be crashed first in order to accelerate the project?

d$.$ What is the final project duration in weeks assuming it is crashed as far as possible?

e$.$ What is total cost to crash the project as far as possible?