Conventions
- A PERT chart is a tool that facilitates decision making. The first draft of a PERT chart will number its events sequentially in 10s (10, 20, 30, etc.) to allow the later insertion of additional events.
- Two consecutive events in a PERT chart are linked by activities, which are conventionally represented as arrows (see the diagram above).
- The events are presented in a logical sequence and no activity can commence until its immediately preceding event is completed.
- The planner decides which milestones should be PERT events and also decides their “proper” sequence.
- A PERT chart may have multiple pages with many sub-tasks.
PERT is valuable to manage where multiple tasks are occurring simultaneously to reduce redundancy
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