COIS 3850H Lecture 8: WEEK 8 LEC NOTES

• School: Trent University
• Department: Computing & Information Systems
• Course: COIS 3850H
• Professor: Peter Northrop

Document Summary

Program : the reason to have a program is because you can move people around between projects. Pert chart: the program evaluation and review technique (pert) is a network model that allows for randomness in activity completion times, there is only ever 1 critical path in a pert chart. Benefits of the pert: pert is useful because it provides the following information, expected overall project completion time, probability of completion. Pert weakness": the activity estimates are somewhat subjective and depend on [good] judgement. In cases where there is little experience in performing an activity, the numbers may be only a guess. In other cases, if the person or group performing the activity estimates that time, there may be bias in the estimate. Regarding the corrected pert chart pic: the red circles are milestones (classes every week), and the blue are activities (wbs assignment). Why do we need new methods: see page 21 for answer, not 18.