Gantt Charts & PERT Charts – How to use these things?
Management has to look at everything and how it all relates. PERT and Gantt charts help the Project Manager schedule projects, and also can be used to talk to the client about where the project is at. The Project Manager has to initially break the work down into segments before any analysis tool can be used to schedule, and input from the client side as to deadlines and time frames can be invaluable. While not panaceas for all ills, there are a number of tools that can aid the Project Manager in scheduling a project. Historically, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique, also referred to as PERT, was a creation of the 1950s. PERT was and is an event-oriented scheduler, the labels go into the nodes on the diagram of the project. It has typically found uses in aerospace and R & D projects for which the time is uncertain for a given activity. PERT borrowed a feature from the old critical path method (CPM), an activity-oriented scheduler, which puts the activity label on the arrow from
