Discussion Questions
1. How, precisely, does project scheduling differ from the
scheduling of ongoing operations?
2. How would you, after the fact, audit a project to deter–
mine whether it was successful?
3. Give three examples of projects not given in the text. Are
these projects unique, or are they repeated in some way?
4. Contrast and compare CPM and PERT as project-
scheduling techniques.
5. Define the terms critical path, ES, and LF.
6. What is the management significance of finding the
critical path through a network?
7. How is the Gantt chart used as a scheduling tool? When
should the Gantt chart be used in preference to network-
based methods?
8. What is meant by the need to make trade-offs between
cost, performance, and schedule? Give examples.
9. Why are a forward pass and a backward pass needed to
produce a project schedule?
10. What is the definition of the earliest and latest start
times of an activity and the earliest and latest finish
times of an activity?
