CPM & PERT Weaknesses & Strengths. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM) help managers to plan the timing of projects involving sequential activities.

First, a schematic representation of the data flow going in and out of the three procedures (CPM, GANTT, and NETDRAW) is drawn using PROC NETDRAW. (See Chapter 1, "Introduction to Project Management," ...

In the software project example, the CPM diagram can include the user interface design tasks, the database structure and the code that passes user queries between the presentation layer and the ...

This example illustrates the use of the TIMESCALE and ALIGN= options to draw time-scaled network diagrams. The Schedule data set WIDGUPD, produced by PROC CPM in the last example, is used.