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Assume that the project manager wants to shorten the project by five Weeks. What crashing decisions do you recommend to meet the desired completion time?

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  1. Assume that the project manager wants to shorten the project by five Weeks. What crashing decisions do you recommend to meet the desired completion time? When tie, must prefer least-cost option.

To answer part #(e) MUST fill out the given table and MUST support your work separately.

Trial

Critical

Path/s (Before Crashing)

Project

Completion Time (Before Crashing)

Activity/

Activities

crashed

Crash Cost

Project

Completion

Time (After Crashing)

1

2

3

4

5

  1. After completing part (e), fill table below:

Trial #3

Trial #5

Number of critical path/s before starting

  1. What is the total project cost when the project is reduced by five weeks?
  2. After reducing the project by five weeks, identify all the paths in the network and state their length? (Add as many rows as you needed)

No.

Path/s

Length of the Path/s

1.

2.

  1. Can you further reduce the project duration? Yes/No. If No Justify why?
  2. You are performing 1st crashing How many options/alternative of activities available that can reduce the project duration by one week, list only the three highest cost options/alternative of activities.

No.

Options / Alternatives

Cost of option

1.

2

3.

York Construction Company won a new project to renovate the existing building of a food plant in Ajax. The following table and network provide information about the project:- + Crash Normal Crash Time Cost Cost Activity (Weeks) ($) A 62 28620 39690 B 14950 16750 . 3 12780 19860 D 8 16245 33195 E 6 37800 50600 F 2 8700 12205 G 4 32500 35830 H 3 22900 25420 9 32210 37160 JE 5 18900 22315 K 5 21730 24450 4 9400 9400 M 7 16200 19530 N 32 38750 43250 O 2 11200 16690 P 2 4100 4690 Q 2 2900 R 8 41575 44375 S 14 6300 6300 Te 8 7900 9205 ve 2 19725 19725 ve 1e 16945 21045 W 6 36740 52020 X 5 18860 21990 Y 13 29675 31825 ze 3 16320 19560 3560 Page 3 FOLLOWING NETWORK IS DRAWN BY USING NORMAL TIME. WEEKS): LEGEND 10 ID DUR 20 S T A R -H 6 8 II 14 DN VE

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