Lecture Notes

The material covered in this course is divided into the 12 units presented below. Some units may take more than one session to be covered.

The images included in each unit are generally identical to the transparencies used in class. There are two major exceptions: when I use a figure taken from your textbook, I cannot include it here,for copyright issues. As you will learn very quickly, I use many figures from projects that I have developed or have permission to use in Primavera Project Planner. I will eventually scan these figures, but for the time being get these figures directly from me.

Don't make hard copies from units we have not covered! I improve my class material constantly, so don't count on these transparencies being exactly the same we will use during the semester. And of course, these are only transparencies, not full discussions. Sorry, but you have to be in the classroom to fully get it.

Unit 1
1.1 Introduction: The Critical Path Method (CPM).
1.2 The activity list.

Unit 2
2.1 The activity network.
2.2 Computing activity durations.

	Unit 3 3.1 Bar chart scheduling from an activity network. 3.2 Introduction to CPM computations.
	Unit 4 4.1 CPM scheduling computations. 4.2 Implications: critical path and activity floats.
	Unit 5 5.1 Non-traditional relationships. 5.2 Communicating the project plan.
	Unit 6 6.1 Resource loading. 6.2 Histograms and cumulative curves. 6.3 Resource leveling.
	Unit 7 7.1 Cost loading. 7.2 Cash flow.
	Unit 8 8.1 Schedule compression. 8.2 Other means for schedule expediting.
	Unit 9 9.1 Updating the schedule.
	Unit 10 10.1 Earned value analysis.
	Unit 11 11.1 Activity-on-arrow (AOA) networks. 11.2 Converting from AOA to AON.
	Unit 12 12.1 Specifying the use of CPM in a project. 12.2 Using CPM for claim analysis.

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