Pert Charts

PERT chart A PERT chart is a project management tool used to schedule, organize, and coordinate tasks within a project. PERT stands for Program Evaluation Review Technique, a methodology developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s to manage the Polaris submarine missile program. A similar methodology, the Critical Path Method (CPM), which was developed for project management in the private sector at about the same time, has become synonymous with PERT, so that …

…met. 7. Listing tasks, by project phase, in the order in which they might be accomplished. 8. Estimating the personnel necessary to accomplish each task 9. Estimating the personnel available to accomplish each task 10. Determining skill level necessary to perform each task 11. Determining task dependencies a. Which tasks can be done in parallel b. Which tasks require the completion of other tasks before they can start 12. Project control or review points 13. Performing project cost estimation and cost-benefit analysis