Project Management Using CPM and PERT Techniques

It has been concluded that CPM and PERT method is used to enhance the planning, scheduling and managing of projects properly [1],[10]. CPM method should be use for a project which has activities that take a specified time and well defined, whereas PERT method can be used if the completion time of activities are uncertain [7],[12]. The system developed will allow the calculation of critical paths, ES, EF, LS, LF, slack value and total time of the project accurately [9],[11]. Thus, the system reduces the manual work involved in calculating the value and it make easy for user to check the activities which critical in a network diagram [8]. Therefore, it is clear that the proposed Project Management System is an effective, simple and precise method to manage the project which will have effective impact on managing real-world projects [2],[5].

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