By float I meant the amount of time a task can be delayed without affecting the project completion date. I feel like drawing a PERT diagram for 30 activities is rather tedious.
I am a Chemical Engineering student, I know how to apply the basic scheduling tools in a problem. But, for this project, I am implementing these "textbook" methods using a software and my professor did not teach us how to use Primavera P6. I am not sure if my work is correct in accordance with the data provided in the link (to construct a cement plant).
I'm not a professor, but if I were so, I would never require my students to do a job that even professional engineers might find it difficult to work out with, properly. I don't know what is your major as a student, so I would suggest that you start learning first the basic of project or construction management from knowing how to identify the scope or activities and how to estimate or calculate quantities. Floats are dependent or determined by activity-logics or relationships. Please note however that there are several types of floats, and others may call it differently, or some have even invented some so-called "float" without any definite or specific mathematical calculations. However, the basic is CPM or critical path method, where you must learn first how to calculate forward pass and backward pass. Others use arrow diagrams and PERT (Project Evaluation Review Technique), but of course all of which can be easily done using a software. Nevertheless, if you don't know the basic or the purposes of which, then your software can become useless. Hope this helps.
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6 years 10 monthsBy float I meant the amount
By float I meant the amount of time a task can be delayed without affecting the project completion date. I feel like drawing a PERT diagram for 30 activities is rather tedious.
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6 years 10 monthsI am a Chemical Engineering
I am a Chemical Engineering student, I know how to apply the basic scheduling tools in a problem. But, for this project, I am implementing these "textbook" methods using a software and my professor did not teach us how to use Primavera P6. I am not sure if my work is correct in accordance with the data provided in the link (to construct a cement plant).
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19 years 1 monthI'm not a professor, but if I
I'm not a professor, but if I were so, I would never require my students to do a job that even professional engineers might find it difficult to work out with, properly. I don't know what is your major as a student, so I would suggest that you start learning first the basic of project or construction management from knowing how to identify the scope or activities and how to estimate or calculate quantities. Floats are dependent or determined by activity-logics or relationships. Please note however that there are several types of floats, and others may call it differently, or some have even invented some so-called "float" without any definite or specific mathematical calculations. However, the basic is CPM or critical path method, where you must learn first how to calculate forward pass and backward pass. Others use arrow diagrams and PERT (Project Evaluation Review Technique), but of course all of which can be easily done using a software. Nevertheless, if you don't know the basic or the purposes of which, then your software can become useless. Hope this helps.