Snapshot from Practice 6.1 The Yellow Sticky Approach (for Constructing a Project Network) In practice, small project networks (25 to 100 activities) are frequently developed using yellow Post-its stickers. The following are the requirements for such a project: 1. Project team members and a facilitator. 2. One yellow sticker (3 x 4 inches or larger) for each activity with the description of the activity printed on the sticker. 3. Erasable whiteboard with marker pen (a long 4-foot-wide piece of butcher paper can be used in place of the whiteboard). All of the yellow stickers are placed in easy view of all team members. The team begins by identifying those activity stickers that have no predecessors. Each of these activity stickers is then attached to the whiteboard. A start node is drawn, and a dependency arrow is connected to each activity. Given the initial network start activities, each activity is examined for immediate successor activities. These activities are attached to the whiteboard and dependency arrows drawn. This process is continued until all of the yellow stickers are attached to the whiteboard with dependency arrows. (Note: The process can be reversed, beginning with those activities that have no successor activities and connecting them to a project end node. The predecessor activities are selected for each activity and attached to the whiteboard with dependency arrows marked.) When the process is complete, the dependencies are recorded in the project software, which develops a project network along with the critical path(5) and early, late, and slack times. This methodology sensitizes team members early to the interdependencies among activities of the project. But more importantly, the methodology empowers team members by giving them input into the important decisions they must implement later. Source: Larson, Erik & Gray, Clifford. (2021). Project Management: The Managerial Process (8th ed.). McGraw Hill Education