Quantitative Techniques: Theory and Problems

USEFULNESS OF PERT

1. Facilitates Planning – PERT facilitates planning. Planning involves the formulation of objectives and goals that are subsequently translated into specific plans and projects. The planning phase of the project is initiated by PERT because it requires the establishment of project objectives and specifications, and then, it provides a realistic and disciplined basis for determining how to attain these objectives, considering pertinent time and resource constraints. Planners are required to specify not only all the activities necessary to complete a project but also their technological dependencies. PERT calculations then lay out clearly the implications of these inter-dependencies and aid the planners in finding problems that ...