Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Developing A Network

1. LO 9.3 Develop an activity network using Activity-on-Node (AON) technique.

Network diagramming is a logical, sequential process that requires you to consider the order in which activities should occur so projects can be scheduled as efficiently as possible. There are two primary methods for developing activity networks, PERT and CPM. PERT, which stands for Program Evaluation and Review Technique, was developed in the late 1950s through collaboration between the U.S. Navy, Booz-Allen Hamilton, and Lockheed Corporation for the creation of the Polaris missile program. PERT originally was used in research and development (R&D), a field in which activity duration estimates can be difficult to make, and resulted from probability ...