Goal Setting, Planning and Decision Making

You may prefer to show tasks in pure GANTT format, as solid bars rather than
arrows terminating in dots. Similarly you may prefer not to show the linkages
between related tasks, this a matter of personal taste and convention.
The Critical Path is the sequence of dependent activities that lead to the
completion of the plan. Any delay of a stage in the critical path will delay
completion of the whole plan unless future sequential activities are speeded up.
2. PERT Charts
PERT stands for Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Here
circles represent completion of tasks, with linking lines showing the
time taken to achieve the tasks. The critical path for the project is
shown as the horizontal series of tasks.
Note that in the diagram below, we are using dotted lines to link
completed tasks back to the appropriate stages at the critical path.
These lines serve to tidy the diagram and do not represent tasks to be
carried out. This diagram shows our example critical path analysis in
PERT format:
Critical Path Analysis- Example 2 – Analysis in PERT Format
Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 10
• • •
(1) (1 day)
6
4 ( 3)
(2) 7 9 14
• • • • • •
(1) (2) (3) (1) (1)
1 5 11
(1)
2 (1 day) 12 13
• • •
(1) (1)
3 15
• • •
(2) (2)
•Critical Path Action
•Non-critical Path Action
(2) (2) No. of weeks to achieve task
1. High level analysis 8. Quality assurance, core modules
2. Selection of software platform 9. QA, supporting modules
3. Installation of hardware 10. Core module training
4. Analysis of core modules 11. Develop accounting reporting
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