After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Discuss the behavioral aspects of projects in terms of project personnel and the project manager.
- Discuss the nature and importance of a work breakdown structure in project management.
- Give a general description of PERT/CPM techniques.
- Construct simple network diagrams.
- List the kinds of information that a PERT or CPM analysis can provide.
- Analyze networks with deterministic times.
- Analyze networks with probabilistic times.
- Describe activity “crashing” and solve typical problems.
Some of these study resources are from the Study Guide to Accompany Operations Management 8e by Paul D. Van Ness. The Study Guide is available in print form, isbn # 0072869119.