Is the disconnection of an activity before the completion of activities in a project network diagram?

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The objectives of this chapter are to:

• Discuss the importance of PERT and CPM techniques for project management.

• Distinguish between PERT and CPM network techniques.

• Discuss the different phases of any project and various activities to be done during these phases.

• Draw the network diagrams with single and three-time estimates of activities involved in a project.

• Determine the critical path and floats associated with non-critical activities and events along with the total project completion time.

• Determine the probability of completing a project within the scheduled time.

• Establish a time-cost trade-off for completion of a project.

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1. Department of Mathematics, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

   Asoke Kumar Bhunia & Ali Akbar Shaikh

2. Department of Mathematics, Raniganj Girls’ College, Raniganj, West Bengal, India

   Laxminarayan Sahoo

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Bhunia, A., Sahoo, L., Shaikh, A. (2019). Project Management. In: Advanced Optimization and Operations Research. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 153. Springer, Singapore. //doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9967-2_14

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Question: ___is the disconnection of an activity before the completion of activities in a Project network diagram.

• A. dangling
• B. looping
• C. dummy
• D. none of the above

Answer C. dummy

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