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Critical Path Analysis. By: Troy Gonsalves. Motivation. The typical reason for failure is poor project-planning Poor planning can result in missed deadlines, inflated costs, and a slow, unreliable system
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Critical Path Analysis By: Troy Gonsalves
Motivation • The typical reason for failure is poor project-planning • Poor planning can result in missed deadlines, inflated costs, and a slow, unreliable system • Good management can not ensure project success but bad management usually results in project failure
Overview • Task Definition • Task Integration Matrix • PERT chart • Gantt chart
Task Definition • ProjectPlanning.pdf pages 1-8
Task Integration Matrix • Tutorial-Oct25.pdf Pages 4-5
PERT • Program Evaluation and Review Technique • To construct the PERT chart we must: • Assign each task to a developer • Specify the execution order of each developer’s tasks
PERT Syntax • The typical graphical syntax for PERT charts results in confusing and often erroneous calculations • Refer to Pert.xls for a better graphical syntax
Gantt Charts • Refer to Gantt.xls
Links • PERT tutorial:http://www.project-planning-tips.com/Project%20Planning%209.htm • PERT and Gantt examples http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/ganttpert/