120 Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry

Rule 8
The latest start time for activity j is the latest completion time minus the
activity time. That is
LS(i) = LC(i) − ti

CPM Example
Table 5.1 presents the data for a simple project network. This network and
extensions of it will be used for computational examples in this chapter and
subsequent chapters. The AON network for the example is given in Figure
5.3. Dummy activities are included in the network to designate single start-
ing and ending points for the network.

Forward Pass
The forward pass calculations are shown in Figure 5.4. Zero  is entered as
the ES for the initial node. Since the initial node for the example is a dummy
TABLE 5.1
Data for Sample Project for CPM Analysis
Activity Predecessor Duration (Days)
A — 2
B — 6
C — 4
D A 3
E C 5
F A 4
G B, D, E 2

A F
2 4

D End
3

B G
Start
6 2

C E
4 5

FIGURE 5.3
Example of activity network.