Question: 1. Define the terms critical path, ES, and LF.
2. What is the management significance of finding the critical path through a network?
3. How is the Gantt chart used as a scheduling tool? When should the Gantt chart be used in preference to network based methods?
4. What is meant by the need to make trade-offs between cost, performance, and schedule? Give examples.
5. Why are a forward pass and a backward pass needed to produce a project schedule?
6. What is the definition of the earliest and latest start times of an activity and the earliest and latest finish times of an activity?