Question: The R&D Project : There is an R&D project at a high-tech company to be managed by Joanna. She is now under pressure from the
The R&D Project: There is an R&D project at a high-tech company to be managed by Joanna. She is now under pressure from the companys rivals to complete the project early with minimum cost. She has gathered the following information for project crashing. You will need to use such information to construct an AoA network
Sub-question 6: the project duration under Normal time is: ____ ABCD____
A) 28 days
B) 26 days
C) 24 days
D) 23 days
Sub-question 7: how to crash the project by 1 day? ____ ABCD____
A) Crash activity A by 1 day (at cost $20,000)
B) Crash activity G by 1 day (at cost $30,000)
C) Crash activity F by 1 day (at cost $10,000)
D) Crash activities F and G by 1 day each (at cost 40,000)
Sub-question 8: the first step of manual crashing the project by 5 days is: ____ ABCD____
- Crash activity G by 2 days
- Crash activity A by 2 days
- Crash activity F by 2 days
- Crash activity B by 3 days
Sub-question 9: the second step of manual crashing the project by 5 days is: ____ ABCD____
- Crash activity G by 2 days
- Crash activities F and G by 2 days each
- Crash activity F by 2 days
- Crash activity B by 2 day
Sub-question 10: the last step of manual crashing the project by 5 days is: ____ ABCD____
- Crash activity G by 2 days
- Crash activities F and G by 2 days each
- Crash activity F by 2 days
- Crash activity B by 1 day
|
Activity |
(i, j) or i->j |
Activity Time (days) Normal Crash |
Activity Cost ($1000s) Normal Crash | Total Allowable Crash time | Marginal Crash Cost ($1000s) | ||
| A | (1,2) | 6 | 4 | 200 | 240 | 2 | 20 |
| B | (2,3) | 8 | 5 | 500 | 605 | 3 | 35 |
| C | (2,4) | 2 | 1 | 570 | 650 | 1 | 80 |
| D | (3,5) | 4 | 1 | 840 | 960 | 3 | 40 |
| E | (4,5) | 7 | 6 | 355 | 400 | 1 | 45 |
| F | (5,6) | 3 | 1 | 400 | 420 | 2 | 10 |
| G | (5,7) | 5 | 2 | 710 | 800 | 3 | 30 |
| Dummy 1 | (3,4) | ||||||
| Dummy 2 | (6,7) | ||||||
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