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This page contains various exercises to support the slides. (See the bottom of the page for licensing information.)

Exercise on Project Selection
An exercise about project selection. The goal is choosing one of two alternative project implementations.
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Exercise on Project Goals and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
An exercise about defining project goals and building a work breakdown structure. Taken from a real case study.
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Critical Path
Computation of the critical path of a plan.
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Earned Value Analysis
An example of Earned Value Analysis.
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Agile Earned Value Analysis
An example of Agile Earned Value Analysis.
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Cash Flow
An example of cash flow computation and how it can be used to estimate the financial needs in a project.
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Project Assessment using EVA
An example of project assessment using Earned Value Analysis. Given a project status, we want to understand whether we are early or late, under or over budget.
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