Program evaluation and review technique

"PERT" redirects here. For other uses, see PERT (disambiguation).

PERT network chart for a seven-month project with five milestones (10 through 50) and six activities (A through F).

The program evaluation and review technique (PERT) is a statistical tool used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project.

PERT was originally developed by Charles E. Clark for the United States Navy in 1958; it is commonly used in conjunction with the Critical Path Method (CPM), which was also introduced in 1958.[1]

  1. ^ Kelley, James E.; Walker, Morgan R.; Sayer, John S. (February 1989). "The Origins of CPM: a personal history". Project Management. 3 (2). Project Management Institute: 18. Retrieved 20 March 2024.