Project Management: The Managerial Process (Mcgraw-hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
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Author: Erik W. Larson, Clifford F. Gray
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 3E
Use the information contained below to compress one time unit per move using the least cost method. Reduce the schedule until you reach the crash point of the network. For each move identify what activity(ies) was crashed and the adjusted total cost.
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