When Using Resource-Constrained Scheduling, Activities That Were Once Scheduled to Be

question 8

Essay

When using resource-constrained scheduling, activities that were once scheduled to be completed at the same time now may have to be scheduled in sequence. What are the "rules of thumb" or heuristics that need to be followed to determine which activity is scheduled first?

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Definitions:

Whiskers

In a box plot, lines that extend from the quartiles to the highest and lowest values, excluding outliers, to show the range of the data.

Box Plot

A graphical representation of data that displays the distribution of data through their quartiles, highlighting the median, quartiles, and outliers.

Perfectly Symmetric Distribution

A type of statistical distribution where the data is uniformly distributed around the mean, showing mirror image halves on either side.

Upper Quartile

The value below which 75% of the observations in a group of data fall, marking the upper 25% of the data.