Planning a large-scale project can intimidate even veteran managers. Juggling multiple team members' schedules, setting achievable deadlines and identifying which tasks have to be done and which can ...

The current PERT definition is "Program Evaluation and Review Technique." Created by the United States Navy after World War II, PERT has become a popular management strategy for handling large-scale, ...

The practice of scheduling projects with the help of mathematics matured just as computing power arrived in the form of massive mainframes in the late 1950s. With PCs now available that are more ...

(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 ...

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a widely used method for planning and coordinating large-scale projects. As Harold Kerzner explained in his book Project Management, “PERT is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The estimate of expected critical-path length in PERT networks in this paper is usually better than the Fulkerson estimate because of greater ...