A project scheduler has calculated the project's critical path. Which of the following activities would most likely occur NEXT?

The correct answer is B. Resource allocation. Calculating the critical path is a late-stage activity in schedule development. Before the critical path can be determined, task decomposition (breaking down work), dependency determination (sequencing), and task duration identification must already be complete - these are…

Project life cycle phases

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AAdditional task decomposition
BResource allocation
CDependency determination
DTask duration identification

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D
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Explanation

Calculating the critical path is a late-stage activity in schedule development. Before the critical path can be determined, task decomposition (breaking down work), dependency determination (sequencing), and task duration identification must already be complete - these are prerequisites to the critical path calculation. Once the critical path is known and the schedule is finalized, the logical next step is resource allocation: assigning the right people, equipment, and materials to each task. This ensures the schedule is executable and resource constraints are accounted for.

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