What is the answer to this Critical Chain question?

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kwalford
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If the Earliest Finish of the final activity of a network is 20 days then what would the Latest Finish be?

My answer would be it depends on the duration of the final activity of the plan.


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Hi,

If the earliest finish of the final activity of a network(the critical chain) is 20 days, the latest finish can be worked out provided the project buffer is made available ahead of the latest finish date which marks the project completion date, therefore your answer would be 20days plus the project buffer.

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When you say Project buffer, is this the float essentially?
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In Critical chain terminology it is called a buffer and represents "aggregate float" I guess.
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