TABLE OF CONTENTS Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM) are management tools based on product-oriented Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and time dependency networks. These tools are used to analyze complex logistics project tasks with respect to time and/or cost. They are best used where many individual steps/tasks can be performed in a variety of sequences. PERT and CPM analyze those sequences and predict optimum costs and schedules.
The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) identifies all of the logistics program tasks to be performed. It is an outline that supplies successive levels of finer element detail in order to provide managerial control over performance via status tracking. The effort is coordinated and documented as resources are allocated and expended. The WBS summarizes management data and provides useful information on the projected, actual, and current status of all project elements.
1.0 PRODUCT SUPPORT (activities done in support of the customers' product use)
1.1 Customer Training (hardware, software, and data)
1.1.1 Facilities (e.g., simulators)
1.1 2 Equipment
1.1.3 Services
1.2 Support Equipment (hardware and software required to maintain the product)
CPM uses deterministic techniques and allows for possible variation in activity times but does not consider probabilistic techniques. It analyzes project duration based on the identification of a critical path through the activity network. This will permit the management of the project to change duration as required. The Critical Path Method is used for projects employing...
