Module 3: Project Crashing & Resources
Heuristic Procedures

STEP 1

List project activities in order of precedence by arranging the arrow head numbers in ascending order. When two or more activities have the same head number, list them so that the arrow tail numbers are also in ascending order. Add to this list, the duration, the early start and slack values for each activity.

STEP 2

Starting with the last activity (the one at the bottom of the diagram), schedule it to give the lowest total sum of squares of resource requirements for each time unit. If more than one schedule gives the same total sum of squares, then schedule the activity as late as possible to get as much slack as possible in all preceding activities.
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Prof.S.G.Deshmukh & Prof.Arun Kanda