Chapter 6: Developing a Project Plan

Chapter 6: Developing a Project Plan

1. Free Slack vs. Total Slack

   • Free Slack is the number of days that an activity can have before it starts delaying the next (successor) activity
   • Total Slack is the number of days that activity can have before it starts delaying the whole project.

2. Importance of Managing the Critical Path

   • helps you keep your project on track and on budget, providing visibility into your project
   • Dependencies
   • people
   • tasks

3. Early vs. Late Slack

   • Start Slack is (Late Start - Early Start)
   • Finish Slack is (Late Finish - Early Finish)

4. Level of Detail

   • Activities must be clearly defined, and should be measurable
   • activity at the lowest level should be clearly identifiable and measurable