Some notes on Project Management – Part 3 of 3

Scheduling tools & techniques

Mathematical analysis
Duration comparison
Simulation
Resource leveling heuristics
Project Management Software
Coding Structure

Mathematical analysis

Critical Path
PERT
GERT

Critical Path
is where the path has the minimal float over the longest path
To calculate this, need duration of each task
Task Duration equals = Early Finish – Early Start or Late Finish – Early Finish

PERT
estimating requires the following three things:

TM = Time – most likely estimate to complete
TO = Time – optimistic
TP = Time – pessimistic

To calculate the expected activity time:
(TO + 4xTM + TP) / 6