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Activity Description
A Negotiate contract
B Preliminary missile design
C Design guidance system
D Select missile configuration
E Design missile frame
F Design missile fuel system
G Design rocket engine
H Final missile design
I Fabricate missile frame, fuel system and engine
J Fabricate guidance system
K Test missile frame, fuel system and engine
L Test guidance system
M Assemble completed missile
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Introduction to Management Science, Course Technology, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1995
CPM Project Management Example
ABM Design Project - Basic Relationship Diagram
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ABM Design Project - Time Table, Forward Pass
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ABM Design Project - Time Table, Determining Critical Path
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