Knowledge of slack times provides
managers with information for planning
allocation of scarce resources
Control efforts will be directed toward those
activities that might be most susceptible to
delaying the project
Activity slack times are based on the assumption
that all of the activities on the same path will be
started as early as possible and not exceed their
expected time
If two activities are on the same path and have
the same slack, this will be the total slack
available to both