Why Not Go Straight to a Network & Forget the WBS?. Project managers use work breakdown structures, or WBS, and schedule network diagrams to structure and schedule the components of a given ...

A-0-A activity-on-arrow - a network diagram convention in which arrows designate activities. A-0-N activity-on-node- a network diagram convention in which nodes designate activities. Activities - ...

The most critical path or K most critical paths in a PERT network could be found by enumerating all the paths and calculating the corresponding criticality indices, both of which are burdensome tasks.

This paper presents the results of a mathematical analysis of the standard assumptions used in PERT calculations. The objectives of this analysis were four-fold: (1) to pull together the mathematical ...