BUSI 3309 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Project Management Software, Asteroid Family, Project Network
24 Aug 2015
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Extended network techniques to come closer to reality. Benefits minimizes risk of surprise by getting a plan and allowing corrective feedback. Project network is a visual flow diagram of sequence, interrelationships, and dependencies of all the activities that must be accomplished to complete the project. An activity is an element in the project that consumes time. Work packages from the wbs are used to build activities found in the project network. The activities are placed in a sequence that provides for orderly completion of the project. Networks are built using nodes (boxes) and arrows (lines). The boxes describe the activity and the arrows the dependencies. 2 main causes of failure: different groups define the work packages and activities, the wbs is poorly constructed\ Networks provide the project schedule by identifying dependencies, sequencing, and timing of activities, which the wbs is not designed to do. The primary inputs for developing a project network plan are work packages.
