PERT charts and Gantt charts are two different tools, which both allow project managers to keep track of tasks and monitor project delivery. Gantt charts are linear charts that place tasks on a ...

Business scheduling is the process of creating formal plans to structure complex projects. Scheduling tools work for everyday tasks, such as scheduling work shifts or order placements, or for large ...

Project networks give you a visual map of the relationship between different tasks in your latest project. To create a network diagram, draw a node -- or sketch it using computer project-managing ...

(This material is not covered in Fraser, Bernhardt and Jewkes. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of ...

The critical path method (CPM) is the scheduling method upon which most new product development schedules are based. It was developed in 1957 by DuPont to assist in managing a series of well-scripted, ...