Planning the project

Crucial to holding an exhibition is project management. First one breaks down the project into individual tasks. In a real situation as opposed to this hyperthetical one some tasks would be broken down into smaller units. The diagram below shows a high-level plan and the interdependency of tasks, known as events.

The next stage would be to allocate timescales by deciding the duration of each event in the plan. Then the earliest start-time can be calculated for each event, and, working backwards from the final event, the latest start-time. When the earliest and latest start-times are the same that event is on the critical path. Any delay in an event/action that lies on the critical path will result in a delay on the whole project.

Our presentation on 28 March will be the application for funding, only the 6th task in the project. The diagram shows the remaining tasks to be done before the real project would be completed.