Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

Like the Gantt chart, PERT makes use of tasks. Like milestone charts, it shows achievements. These achievements however are not task achievements. They are terminal achievement, called events. Arrows are used to represent tasks and circles represent the beginning or completion of a task. The PERT chart uses these paths and events to show the interrelationships of project activities.

The events in my project can be categorised as:

1. Meeting to the Employees of company to understand the project.

2. Table Designing

3. Form Designing

4. Writing Codes

5. Designing Reports

6. Testing the project

7. Implementation of project

Each task is limited by an identifiable event. An event has no duration; it simply tells you that the activity has ended or begun. Each task must have a beginning and an ending event. A task can start only after the tasks depends on have been completed. PERT does not allow “looping back” because a routing that goes back to a task does not end.

A PERT chart is valuable when a project is being planned. When the network is finished, the next step is to determine the critical path. It is the longest path through the network. No task on the critical path can be held up without delaying the start of the next tasks and, ultimately, the completion of the project. So the critical path determines the project completion date.