Lack of time is a major problem in staging events. When drawing up flowcharts, always allow
sufficient time for each task to be completed plus as much ‘slack time’ as possible. However,
it is not always possible to allow slack time and tasks without slack time should be labelled as
critical. This signifies that such a task, or series of tasks should be very closely monitored
because if they take longer than planned, the rest of the sequence of tasks are unlikely to be