Question

  

Task Description Task No. Must Follow    Expected time(days)

Reserve the meeting room                 A                 None                                      1

Order the marketing material              B                     A                                        9

Brief the managers                             C                     A                                        2

Send put the customer emails            D                     C                                        3

Burn sample DVDs   E                      C                                        3

Load the new software F                      D, E                                    2

Do a class rehearsal.                           G                     B, F                                    1

Now you do:

(A) Using the data from the table above, draw a Gantt chart to help Flow Associates organize the meeting. Chart should be neat and labeled.   

(B) Using the data from the table above, draw a PERT diagram. Then identify the critical path. The diagram should be neat and labeled.

Note: you can create these charts using MS Project. If you do not wish to use MS Project, you can use MS Excel to create Gantt chart and MS Word to create PERT Diagram.

Answer 1

The charts are of representation purpose only. Understand the charts and draw in Excel and Word applications neatly.

(A) Gantt Chart:

Modified the Gantt Chart with corrected value for task B

(B) PERT Chart:

In the PERT Chart,

• The circles represent the nodes, which are milestones or events
• Directional arrows represent dependent tasks that have to be completed sequentially.
• Dotted lines represents tasks that do not required resources.

In the diagram, the tasks are labeled as A, B, C etc., But, we can write the complete task name in the diagram.

Critical Path: The path which takes the project to longest duration to complete. From the PERT chart, it is evident that the path 1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 8 is the critical path which takes 11 days of longest project duration.