NETWORK ANALYSIS (PERT & CPM) It is a technique through which large projects are broken down to individual jobs or events and arranged in a logical network. PERT and CPM are two such network-based techniques designed to assist in the planning, scheduling, and control of projects. A project is defined as a collection of interrelated activities with each activity consuming time and resources. PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique CPM : Critical Path Method. Framework of PERT and CPM There
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PM spends communicating = 90% Crashing a project = Crash least expensive tasks on critical path. JIT inventory = 0% (or very close to 0%.) Minus 100 = (100) or -100 PERT PERT 3-point = (Pessimistic+(4*Most Likely)+Optimistic)/6 PERT σ = (Pessimistic - Optimistic) / 6 PERT Activity Variance = ((Pessimistic - Optimistic) / 6)^2 PERT Variance all activities = √sum((Pessimistic - Optimistic) / 6)^2 Network Diagram Activity Duration = EF - ES + 1 or Activity Duration = LF - LS + 1 Total Float =
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Tools used by Project Managers Lisa M. Wondolowski Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Tools used by Project Managers Formally, an organization and/or company typically would decide to commence a project exertion and appoint the project necessary resources to a prudently selected person and inferred that the individual will use some form of project management. Nonetheless, organizational implications were of little importance in the past. Although the necessary
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Performance Measurement Penny Myers MGT 437 April 18, 2011 Performance Measurement Successful companies invest time, money, and resources in projects with the goal of earning a return on investment. The project manager ensures projects stay on schedule and within budget and performance management gives the project manager visibility to ensure they are operating within the agreed upon time and cost constraints and that the project is performing according to plan. Performance measurement
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risks become issues. As a result of this insight, project managers is implement risk responses plans which mitigate risk and therefore improve the management of their projects. PERT Analysis in Microsoft Project Using PERT in Microsoft Project 2007 (and earlier) is very easy using the PERT toolbar. To enable the PERT toolbar: on the View menu, click the Toolbars menu, and choose
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Developing a Gantt and PERT Chart October 2004 Edition UNITAR-executed GEF Medium-Sized Project, on behalf of UNDP Table of Contents Module 1. Creating a Gantt Chart Using MS Project ............................................... 1 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 1 1. Open Project.........................................................................................................
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Until 1900, civil engineering projects were generally managed by creative architects, engineers, and master builders themselves, for example Vitruvius (first century BC), Christopher Wren (1632–1723), Thomas Telford(1757–1834) and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859).[8] It was in the 1950s that organizations started to systematically apply project management tools and techniques to complex engineering projects.[9] Henry Gantt (1861–1919), the father of planning and control techniques As a discipline
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Madigan Army Medical Facility Marva M. White American InterContinental University March 11, 2012 Introduction All medical facilities as well as other organization have s specific purpose in mind when selecting certain areas in which to conduct their business. The Madigan family has seen a lot of military service. Four generation has served, suiting up for the major conflicts for the past century. Madigan gets its name from Retired Colonel John J. Madigan III, who died May 4, 2009, at
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tasks. One commonly-used technique is Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) which uses a detailed diagram of all anticipated tasks in a project, organised into a network to represent the dependence of each task on those that must precede it. PERT can be used to analyse the tasks involved in completing a project, especially the duration of each task, and identify the minimum time needed to complete the total project. PERT makes it possible to schedule a project without knowing the precise details
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1) Please identify the critical path using the activity letter provided and explain the significance of the critical path. The QSB output below shows the critical path. The path is significant because it demonstrates the path that is the most time consuming (longest to finish), as the activities on the critical path have no slack. The completion of each activity in this sequence is critical to the start of the next activity in the sequence. There is likely a “bottle neck” with one or more of these
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