Question

Brian is a construction manager who wants to determine how long a new project will take to complete and which tasks in the project have the greatest potential for delaying the project. The PERT Network model will help Brian answer these questions.

Answer 1

Explanation: PERT is Project Evaluation Review Technique. It is project management planning tool used to calculate the amount of time it will take to realistically finish a project and it also serves as a tool used to plan tasks within a project, making it easier to coordinate team members in accomplishing the work.

The PERT network model will help Brain to:

1. Identify the critical path of a project

2. Aid reduced project duration

3. Assist in the identification of early start, late start, and slack for each project activity

4. Seek for options of project completion before a given time