Critical Path Analysis...

[njsolutionsuk]

Hi just wandering if theres anyone that could help me at all or that happens to use critical path analysis on a daily basis.

I've been set a task to analyse a crtical path.... and theres many questions and one sub question is . In step 6 (testing phase) you've missed out one test what action could you take?

If anyone has any ideas or uses this in industry i'd much appreciate any help

[Olf]

njsolutionsuk said:

Hi just wandering if theres anyone that could help me at all or that happens to use critical path analysis on a daily basis.

I've been set a task to analyse a crtical path.... and theres many questions and one sub question is . In step 6 (testing phase) you've missed out one test what action could you take?

If anyone has any ideas or uses this in industry i'd much appreciate any help

I'm going to start by stating the obvious. CPA is part of a field called Operation Research. I haven't done it since University but if you start with this header you might get further quicker. You may already know this.

[spikeyhead]

njsolutionsuk said:

Hi just wandering if theres anyone that could help me at all or that happens to use critical path analysis on a daily basis.

I've been set a task to analyse a crtical path.... and theres many questions and one sub question is . In step 6 (testing phase) you've missed out one test what action could you take?

If anyone has any ideas or uses this in industry i'd much appreciate any help

A planner can always generate a new plan.

There's nothing unusual in having to change plans, hopefully only minor changes are required but sometimes major delays happen. Ideally the missing step can be done in parallel, if it can't then the timescales slip. When something like this happens, cost, timescales and or risk rises. Its a case of balancing all three to an acceptable level.

[tigger1]

Not reading too much into it...

Could you - reduce the number of tests?
- get somebody to work over-time to complete the test?
- slot in the test (and risk over-run?)


As said above - "operations research" or "operational research" (same thing) is a massive area...and very interesting

[Adam T]

I take it were not talking about a Costruction Projects Critical Path?

[Don]

njsolutionsuk said:

Hi just wandering if theres anyone that could help me at all or that happens to use critical path analysis on a daily basis.

I've been set a task to analyse a crtical path.... and theres many questions and one sub question is . In step 6 (testing phase) you've missed out one test what action could you take?

If anyone has any ideas or uses this in industry i'd much appreciate any help

Umm. If you've missed a "step" then you have not completed whatever activity it is part of. Therefore it is not 100% complete and anything depending on it cannot start.

Sounds to me you are trying to work out what the critical path is. To do that you will need to design a network that accurately describes your process/project with all the dependencies properly described. Then you could run it through Microsoft Project or similar which will identify the Critical Path for you easily. Lots less work than doing it by hand...

I used to this for a living. I'm one of the guys who helped write "Artemis" the project planning software tool of the late eighties/early nineties.

[VetteG]

Don said:

I'm one of the guys who helped write "Artemis" the project planning software tool of the late eighties/early nineties.

I used to work for Onstream when they had exclusive use of Artemis in the 80's. How time flies!

G