Lillian Wambugu is the project manager of Jokete Construction Company. The company is bidding a contract to install telephone lines in a small town. It...

      

Lillian Wambugu is the project manager of Jokete Construction Company. The company is bidding a contract to install telephone lines in a small town. It has identified the following activities along with their predecessor restrictions, expected times and worker requirements:
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Lillian Wambugu has agreed with the client that the project should be completed in the shortest duration.

Required:
i) Draw a network for the project.
ii) Determine the critical path and the shortest project duration.
iii) Lillian Wambugu will assign a fixed number of workers to the project for its entire duration and so she would like to ensure that the minimum number of workers is assigned and that the project will be completed in 14 weeks. Draw a schedule showing how the project will be completed in 14 weeks
iv) Comment on the schedule you have drawn in (iii) above.

  

Answers


Wilfred
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ii) Critical path is B-E-G-H with shortest project duration being 14 weeks.
iii) The workers schedule merged with the Gantt chart for the project is as follows:
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Wilfykil answered the question on February 20, 2019 at 07:51


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