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Scheduling is necessary for: Optimum utilization and orderly arrangements of resources, control of cost, progress and quality of executed work, and capacity allocation to be efficient and effective.
Scheduling is used for the determination of: Starting and finishing times of each activities, The earliest and latest times at which events can occur, The sequence of flow of each activities and their possible overlaps, Critical path on which activities require special attention, Slack and floats for non-critical activities, and Resources to be allocated to each activities necessary to accomplish them with in scheduled time.
CRITICAL (CPM)
PATH
METHOD
ESTij = EETi
Earliest Finish Time: the earliest time an activity may be completed. It is computed by adding ds (duration) to the values of the earliest start times, EST.
LFTij = LETj
the backward pass through the network then determines each tasks LS and LF event time.
PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
It is essential that managers understand that the process is cyclic and needs to be carried out on a regular basis and with persistence.