Large, complex business projects require thousands of separate activities and can cost millions of dollars. With such high stakes, managing these projects poses a challenge to any large organization.

(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 conventional procedure for determining the expected project completion time is to find the critical path; its duration is treated as the expected completion time for the project. It is known among ...

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 ...

A-0-A activity-on-arrow - a network diagram convention in which arrows designate activities. A-0-N activity-on-node- a network diagram convention in which nodes designate activities. Activities - ...