The program evaluation review technique (PERT) analyzes the project by showing a breakdown in a diagram form with the duration and all tasks involved in the project. PERT is more detailed than the critical path method (CPM) which has the sequence of events as they follow but have no detail on the timings of the specific events. The charts are very instrumental in projects management more so in time management. They keep track of time ensuring the project manager knows the urgency of every matter hence devise ways to counter being late in the project’s timing. This paper will analyze a project by the Moore’s home builders who have a project in constructing six houses at a minimum of completing every house in 45 days or less. We then will identify the ultimate critical path for the project and recommendations whether to increase the price to cover on the penalty charges in case they don’t complete within the deadlines set. We analyze using the CPM/PERT analysis method. Below is a chart of events in the project.
The chart of reference is shown below. The chart analysis reveals that the shortest route has an average of 35 days to complete house, and the longest path can take as many as 65 days to complete one house. This shows that the builders have to make a provision for unforeseeable activities such as bad weather or unavailability of staff due to bad health and so on and so forth. Short tasks are supposed to take advantage of and be completed with the least time possible. The builders should, therefore, take into consideration such unforeseeable fatalities so as to compensate the charges they might suffer as they continue. The builders should negotiate a deal such that if in a particular month they meet the target of 45 days or less, then the following month they are charged for using more than 45 days of completing the construction of a house. The two situations should compensate each other so that they don’t balance at a loss (Khanna, 2015).
Since they have experience and have most probably made a good estimation of the time for completing particular tasks, the average number of days to complete a house becomes 55 days having put into consideration all unforeseen fatalities that may occur at some time. If the deal is sealed favoring them, they are at an advantage and could at long last have the last laugh since they have conservatively done their estimates. This means that the days can only be fewer and not increase in completing the construction of one house. Some activities can be easily combined with others to reduce the number of days while constructing the houses. Activity r can be combined with activity p which is somehow absorbing nodes which do not have succeeding activities (Gopalakrishnan & Haleem, 2015).
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Short activities such as activity j which is rough electrical wiring should have at met by one worker at the site to let other workers concentrate on concurrent and more complex activities such as activity k which involves installing the furnace and the air conditioner. Complex activities should be given more workers so as to minimize the number of hours or days they take which will collectively minimize the number of days taken to complete a house.
References
Gopalakrishnan, P., & HALEEM, A. (2015). Handbook of materials management. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Khanna, R. B. (2015). Production and operations management. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
