Notes on Combinatorial Mathematics: An Estimate of Expected Critical Path Length in PERT Networks,

Abstract

PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique), a much-used management control technique for scheduling and administering large projects, has been applied to numerous defense programs in which the problem of treating schedule uncertainties during the development phase is troublesome. This report supplies a new estimate of the expected time required to complete an entire project, assuming that the times required to carry out the various subprojects are uncertain. A method is described for obtaining an approximation of the expected duration time of a project whose individual job times are discrete random variables. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0713946

Entities

People

  • John H. Lindsey Ii

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Functions (Mathematics)
  • Management Engineering
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Pert
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Uncertainty

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