PERT‚ CPM‚ and Agile Project Management. Robert C. Martin 5 October 2003 Some time in the late 60’s my father brought home a book that he thought I’d be interested in. The title was Introduction to Operations Research by Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman‚ Holden-Day‚ 1967. I was probably 15 or 16 years old. The book languished on my shelves for perhaps ten years. Then‚ as a young software professional‚ I pulled the book down and ‚thumbing through its pages‚ I noticed a chapter on PERT
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PERT/CPM Project management triangle is the symbol that represents the money‚ time and scope items in a project‚ which has been modeled by Harold Kerzner. Given the wide range of project management tools available‚ the key to selecting the right one is to understand that different tools are needed along the different stages of a project life cycle. Graphical displays such as gantt-charts usually make the information easy to identify; and we can easily use it for tracking cost‚ schedule and performance
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SUPPLEMENTAL APPENDIX PROJECT SCHEDULES WITH PERT/CPM CHARTS Chapter 3 of Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World explains the techniques and steps required to build a project schedule using the Gantt chart view in MS Project. This appendix provides a similar explanation of how to build a project schedule‚ but it is based on using a PERT/CPM chart or diagram for the schedule format. A Gantt chart and a PERT/CPM chart both provide essentially the same information about project activities and tasks
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(successfully and unsuccessfully) the projects promoted by the neo-liberal urban development paradigm? Maybe we need to discuss this but in the meantime what should one do? In the case of Karachi ‚ I see projects replacing planning for the foreseeable future. I have tried to promote some principles on the basis of which projects should be judged and/or modified. These are: one‚ projects should not damage the ecology of the region in which the city is located. Two‚ projects should as a priority seek to
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Standardizing Availability Definition Vamshi K. Katukoori Graduate Student: NAME University Of New Orleans Table of Contents 1.) Foreword 2.) Availability 3.) Introduction 4.) Availability Classification 5.) Reliability Terms 6.) Time Breakdown 7.) Time allocation 8.) Data Analysis 9.) Associated terms 10.) Definition of Inherent Availability in SMRP format 11.) Definition of Achieved Availability in SMRP format 12.) Definition of Operational Availability in SMRP format 13.)
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following represent activities in Marc Massoud’s Construction Company project. a) Draw the network to represent this situation. b) Which activities are on the critical path? c) What is the length of the critical path? Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) Time (weeks) Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) Time (weeks) A — 1 E B 2 B — 4 F C‚ E 7 C A 1 G D 2 D B 5 H F‚ G 3 3.29 A small software development project at Krishna Dhir’s firm has five major activities. The times are
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in your project. Explain how your methodologies can be applied to similar types of project and cannot be applied to different type of project. Advantage of Gantt and PERT charts: 1. It gives the start time and end time of the project. 2. It gives you a precise time of each step of the project. 3. It gives you good view of which steps are the main or additional. 4. It provides exact prospective of which step depends on the other. Advantages of Gantt Charts. 5. It creates a picture
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The IIMMPC is a producer’s cooperative composed of small scale manufacturers from Iligan City and Lanao del Norte. It was organized in 2007 to enable the members to engage in big projects that cannot be done singly by any member cooperators but only through the joint efforts of all the member-cooperators. The members of the cooperative come from the different sectors of manufacturing business. These include the food sector‚ the gift‚ toys and housewares
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BUS 325 Operations Management CPM & PERT Sample Problems #1 Suppose that a project requires the following activities and their respective activity times: 1. Complete the chart below (Round numbers to the second decimal place). Job No. Immediate Predecessors Times (weeks) Expected Time σ2 To Tm Tp A - 2 2 2 B A 1 2 3 C A 2 4 6 D B‚ C 1 3 5 E D 2 3 4 F C‚ D 1 2 3 G E‚ F 2 4 6 H C‚ F 1 1 1 I F‚ G‚ H 2 2 8 2. Construct the network diagram / Determine ES/EF &LS/LF.
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Q2 Planning and control–Critical Path Method (CPM) & Progamme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) Explain what is meant by the Critical Path Method (CPM) and the Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)‚ as used in project planning and control? Department A is performing a system upgrade project with the following tasks‚ duration and task dependency relationships. Critical Path Method (CPM) The critical path method (CPM) is a step-by-step technique for process planning that defines
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