Determine Total Float & Free Float (AKA "Slack") of activities in a network diagram

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Thank you very much for this very clear explanation!! One small question, what happen when you have Start to start or finish to finish linked tasks (even including lead/lag), how to calculate the free float? Using the expression on the video obviously fall into negative values which makes no sense as per the concept of float, but I guess in that case the calculation expression mustchange right?

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[@ianhayes9101]

You make the computation of free float a bit more complicated than it has to be. Instead of subtracting ES and duration, just subtract EF.

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I tried, it might make a mistake , look at the F and E activity in the video

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@@AnotherStudent96 no mistakes
FF activity = ES successor - EF activity

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Mohammed Al-Mashehdi Can you help for the formulae of independent float?

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Great vid! Quick question. If I have three activities with no predecessors, how do I construct the network? Will it have a 'start' node that bursts into the three activities? Or will I just have three separate activities starting points?

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For an Acticity on Node diagram like this one, you will not have a single start node that bursts into three. You will have three seperate initial nodes, all with ES=0. Organize them all on the left hand side, one over the other, and then use the logic from the table of dependencies to draw out their successors. When you do the forward pass, set all three initial activities' ES to zero, and count up as usual. When you do the backward pass, at least one MUST have a LS = 0 . The other two may have LS = 0, or an LS greater than zero.

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excellent video - some videos assume the ES of 1st activity as 1 and keep subtracting 1 from every successor activities ES , you have assumed 0 and are not subs 1 in forward pass . What is the correct method?

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