Introduction to ICT Research Methods

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Table of Contents
Tutorial 6.............................................................................................................................2
Activity 1.........................................................................................................................2
Activity 2.........................................................................................................................6
Tutorial 8.............................................................................................................................7
Tutorial 9-Activity 3..........................................................................................................11
References..........................................................................................................................12

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Tutorial 6
Activity 1
2a) Critical path is described as a sequence of stages that helps in determination of the minimum
time needed to complete an operation. It defines the sequence of the project activities, which can
help in completion of the project in shortest possible time.
2b) The project activities that are marked in blue in the picture below is not on the critical path-
Figure 1: Representing the non-critical path
From the above figure, it is observed that task number 2, and task number 6 is not on
critical path and the rest of the tasks are on critical path of the project.
2c) The figure below indicates the total slack time of the above mentioned two no-critical tasks-

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Figure 2: Representing the slack time
The figure above indicates that the slack time of task two is 1 day while the slack time
task 3 is 6 days.