Advantages
- PERT chart explicitly defines and makes visible dependencies (precedence relationships) between the work breakdown structure (commonly WBS) elements
- PERT facilitates identification of the critical path and makes this visible
- PERT facilitates identification of early start, late start, and slack for each activity,
- PERT provides for potentially reduced project duration due to better understanding of dependencies leading to improved overlapping of activities and tasks where feasible.
- The large amount of project data can be organized & presented in diagram for use in decision making.
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