NETWORK DIAGRAM

CHECKLIST

Questions that will get you the answers

you need to fill out the template below:

c 1. What is the lowest cost to complete this Operations Readiness and Assurance project in xx
weeks?

c 2. What are the tools?

c 3. If the Operations Readiness and Assurance project network diagram cannot change and
you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?

c 4. Where do schedules come from?

c 5. Review the logical flow of the network diagram. Take a look at which activities you have
first and then sequence the activities. Do they make sense?

c 6. Which type of network diagram allows you to depict four types of dependencies?

c 7. What are the Major Administrative Issues?

c 8. Are the required resources available?

c 9. Exercise: what is the probability that the Operations Readiness and Assurance project
duration will exceed xx weeks?

c 10. What must be completed before an activity can be started?

c 11. What is the probability of completing the Operations Readiness and Assurance project in
less that xx days?

c 12. What job or jobs follow it?

c 13. Are you on time?

c 14. Are the gantt chart and/or network diagram updated periodically and used to assess the
overall Operations Readiness and Assurance project timetable?

c 15. If x is long, what would be the completion time if you break x into two parallel parts of y
weeks and z weeks?

c 16. What controls the start and finish of a job?

c 17. Why must you schedule milestones, such as reviews, throughout the Operations
Readiness and Assurance project?

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c 18. What is the completion time?

c 19. Will crashing x weeks return more in benefits than it costs?

c 20. What job or jobs precede it?

c 21. What job or jobs could run concurrently?

c 22. Planning: who, how long, what to do?

c 23. What activities must follow this activity?

c 24. What to do and When?

c NOTES:

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Project Title: Date Prepared:

FF

FS-2d

H End
C
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In this Network Diagram:

There is a 2-day lead between the completion of A and beginning of C.
There is a 2-day lag between the completion of B and beginning of D.
There is a start-to-start relationship between E and F.
There is a finish-to-finish relationship between G and H.

All other relationships are finish-to-start.