From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Calculate early, late start, and finish times

Calculate early, late start, and finish times

From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling

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Calculate early, late start, and finish times

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- We're now at what is probably the most tedious step in the process, but in a network model calculating early and late start and finish times is really what enables you to calculate just how long a project is expected to take along with the dates that each activity can and must start in order to finish on time. The steps we've covered so far require your input whether you're using a software scheduling program or you're doing it by hand, at this point though if you were using a software program and you had accurately entered your work breakdown structure, turned it in to that ordered list of activities, created the relationships between each of the activities by defining those immediately preceding activities and you'd assigned durations to each of them, you'd be in the position to let the software take it from here. However for this course I would like you to understand what's being calculated and how and why so you understand what the output means or at the very least I want you to…

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