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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participants could rate these strategies on a 1 to 4 scale so that a prioritized list of the best strategies could be achieved. The Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) is a high-level strategic management approach for evaluating possible strategies. Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix or a QSPM provides an analytical method for comparing feasible alternative actions. The QSPM method falls within so-called stage 3 of the strategy formulation analytical
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John Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT&T. However‚ Pierpont is looked upon as a saint and demon the same. He received a honorary degree from Harvard university that read: "Public citizen‚ patron of literature and art‚ prince among merchants‚ who by his skill‚ wisdom and courage‚ has twice in times of stress repelled
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CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CEE 320 – VDC SEMINAR) 4 February 2009 Jesse Santiago & Desirae Magallon Overview Background & History CPM Defined The CPM approach Definitions Class Exercise Background & History Developed in the 1950s by the US Navy Originally‚ the critical path method considered only logical dependencies between terminal elements Since then‚ it has been expanded to allow for the inclusion of resources related to each activity‚ through processes called activity-based resource
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ONLINE 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
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A recent film that I have studied in class has managed to unsettle me‚ to change my views about major issues such as gender and family I found Billy Elliot to be a moving and uplifting film about motherless Billy fulfilling his dream of becoming a ballet dancer‚ in the process overcoming the objections of his father and brother. By setting the movie in the context of a mining community‚ and more specifically against the backdrop of the 1980’s miners’ strike they were able to refer to gender and class
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Homework Problems 3.28 The 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
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LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT Emad Elbeltagi‚ Ph.D.‚ P.Eng.‚ Professor of Construction Management Structural Engineering Department‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Mansoura University Construction Project Management 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means‚ or stored in a data base or retrieval system‚ without the prior written permissions of the author. PREFACE In the Name of
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Scamoail Ahmed - Project Mgmt assignment no 2 Q No 1 : What is meant by Project Crashing? How you incorporate Project Crashing through PERT-CPM? Definition 1. Project Crashing is a technique / process by which a project can be expedited by compressing the project schedule. Explanation 2. When we say that a project completion time is XX days‚ we generally mean that the project will normally takes these number of days within a specified resource / budget constraint. We could make it take less
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Fleeing southwards in search of new abodes after the fall of the Oyo Empire‚ the Oyos started settling among the Ifes in 1834. As the Romans of old‚ they were soldier-farmers. They were hardy as soldiers and industrious as farmers. Having lost all their possessions in their hasty flight‚ they started life in Ife by doing menial jobs to enable them eke out a living. The reigning Ooni of Ife‚ Oba Akinmoyero was said to have received them well. They started growing and producing different types of food
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