Practical Management Science
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Management Decision Systems (MDS) is a consulting company that specializes in the development of decision support systems. MDS has a four-person team working on a current project with a small company to set up a system that scrapes data from a collection of websites and then automatically generates a report for management on a daily basis.
Time (Weeks) | |||||
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Activity | Description | Immediate Predecessor |
Optimistic | Most Probable | Pessimistic |
A | Report generation | 1 | 8 | 12 | |
B | Web scraping | 4 | 9 | 11 | |
C | Testing | A, B | 1 | 1 | 1 |
(b) Based solely on the critical path, estimate the probability that the project will be complete within 11 weeks. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
(c) Using all paths through the project network, estimate the probability that the project will be complete within 11 weeks. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
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