1. (TCO 2) What is "lag" and why would you need to use it in your network? How is "lag" different than "slack"?
2. (TCO 2) What are the purposes of Gantt charts and Network diagrams?
3. (TCO 2) In the network computation process what is a backward pass and what four things does it determine?
4. (TCO 2) What is the Concurrent Engineering Approach and why should project managers be aware of it?
5. (TCO 2) How do you choose the tasks to reduce the project duration?
6. (TCO 4) There are positive risks and negative risk in your project. Positive risks are those things that can have a positive outcome and provide a previously unseen opportunity. Negative risks are those things that can have a negative outcome and are a threat to successful project completions. What are the ways that you would respond to the uncertainty of risk and how would you manage positive risks different than negative risks? Please describe these approaches.