Precedence Diagram Method
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The Precedence Diagram Method is a tool for scheduling activities in a project plan. It is a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram that uses boxes, referred to as nodes, to represent activities and connects them with arrows that show the dependencies.
• Critical Tasks, noncritical tasks, and slack time • Shows the relationship of the tasks to each other • Allows for what-if, worst-case, best-case, and most likely scenario
Key elements include determining predeccessors and defining attributes such as
- early start date
- late start date
- early finish date
- late finish date
- Duration
- WBS reference
