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Information Technology - Project management case study

Case study: Mira, Muse of the Spheres and Musicale Musak.

_The story so far:_

Interactive Animation.

Miraball answered all Bossperson's questions correctly and thus was
employed as a Project Manager. Mira's task is to manage an online music
festival called Muse of the Spheres.

If you would like to view a suggested answer to the question posed in the
animation, click here.

Project Management tools

GANTT charts:

display tasks along a horizontal time scale
record the time for each task by indicating start and finish dates
show the best possible way to complete tasks in the shortest possible time
show how activities can be done in parallel or sequentially

PERT diagrams (network diagrams):

use graphical forms to show relationships between activities and time frames
show actual tasks and the point at which these activities begin or end
list activities in the project and their dependencies
show the interdependence of events
indicate the critical path and slack time
often provide three estimates for the project duration: a pessimistic, an optimistic, and a mostly likely time frame

CPM (critical path method) diagram:

a network diagram showing only one time estimat

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