Project Scheduling - PERT/CPM | Finding Critical Path

This video shows how to
• Construct a project network
• Perform Forward and backward passes
• Determine project completion time
• Calculate slack values
• State the critical path
Project Scheduling in Excel: • Project Scheduling in ...
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Quantitative Methods for Business by David Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, and Willard Thorp

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