Organization is a key component of project management. When creating a project schedule, managers will find both Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Gantt charts to be essential tools ...

PERT charts and Gantt charts are two different tools, which both allow project managers to keep track of tasks and monitor project delivery. Gantt charts are linear charts that place tasks on a ...

Regardless of the technique you use, the tendency in project estimation is to provide one number for each estimate. In other words, if you have 100 activities on your schedule, each activity would ...

Large, complex business projects require thousands of separate activities and can cost millions of dollars. With such high stakes, managing these projects poses a challenge to any large organization.

(This material is not covered in Fraser, Bernhardt and Jewkes. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of ...

This example illustrates the PERT statistical approach. Throughout this chapter, it has been assumed that the activity duration times are precise values determined uniquely. In practice, however, each ...