Complete and submit the following questions. They will include a series of content, integration, and synthesis related to the reading assignments. Questions will cover the content of the material and will require the learner to think critically and contextually about the subject matter. Your responses must be complete, using terminology and concepts presented in the primary textbook as well as supplementary resources. Write in complete sentences and use good grammar, double-spacing, 12 point font, with one inch margins. Be sure to cite your resources and provide the references using APA format. Remember to reference all work cited or quoted by the text authors. You should be doing this often in your responses.
1. How would a project manager supervise a critical path task differently than a non-critical path task?
2. What is “project slack” and how would you determine slack?
3. When using AON networks, how does one indicate an event such as a project milestone?
4. Briefly explain how a Gantt chart maybe deceptive in its apparent simplicity?
5. Will all the activities on a non-critical path have the same slack? Why or why not?
6. Explain what composes a “dummy activity?”
7. As a project manager, how could you use the network approach to help prepare cost estimates?
8. It has been said the project manager must actively supervise the project team as well as the project. As a project manager, explain actually what this means to you?
9. From a project manager’s perspective, given all the estimating done to determine the duration of project activities, what does it mean to say: “only after the fact do you know which path was actually the critical path?”
10. In your opinion, after reading and studying this chapter, do you think project managers use the MSP’s Gantt chart format more often than the network format? Why or why not?
