A-Level CAIE Business A2 9.3.5—Operations planning Question Bank

• Operations planning

- the need for planning operations

- network diagrams as tools to plan operations

- the main elements of a network diagram: activities, dummy activities, nodes

- network diagrams as means of performing Critical Path Analysis (CPA), including identification of the minimum project duration and the critical path, calculation of total and free float, interpretation of the results of the analysis of a network, how minimum duration and floats might be used in project management

- the benefits and limitations of CPA as a management tool