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Two international banks are integrating two financial processing software systems as a result of their merger. Preliminary analysis and interviews with all parties involved resulted in the following project information. The “systems integration team” for this project plan to define and manage this project on two levels. The network defined below is the aggregate view and within each activity is a more detailed view with sub-tasks and project networks defined. All times are in weeks. Activity Immediate Predecessor Activity Time A - 3 B A 1 C A 2 D B,C 3 E C 5 F C 3 G E 7 H E,F 5 I D,G,H 8 a. Draw the project network. b. Identify the critical path. c. What is the total project completion time? Comment Expert Answer Anonymous answered this 6 hours later Was this answer helpful? 0 0 458 answers Project network will be as follows: Activity Predecessor Time Starts Ends A - 3 0 3 B A 1 3 4 C A 2 3 5 D B,C 3 5 8 E C 5 5 10 F C 3 5 8 G E 7 10 17 H E,F 5 10 15 I D,G,H 8 17 25 From the above table the network diagram shows the following paths: A--B--C--D--I or A--C--B--D--I (dummy between B&C for starting of D); A--C--D--I; A--C--E/F--H--I (dummy between E&F for start of H); A--C--E--G--I and the critical path is A--C--E--G--I and the total project duration completion time is 25 weeks. What is the Latest Start, Latest Finish, and Slack for the grid to be filled out?