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Over the Thanksgiving weekend we had a PERT assignment for homework. To sum it up PERT is a method of estimating the probability of finishing a particular project with a specified amount of time. For anyone doing any type of a significant project that is valuable information.

Basically you make up a project network which is basically a flow chart of which items need to be performed and in what order. With that network you are able to determine what the critical path is. The critical path is the order of items that it is going to take the longest period of time to complete.

Once you know the critical path you then calculate the variance of the items of the critical path and the standard deviation. From this you are able to determine the time it is going to take to complete the project and what percentage you can be sure that it will be done in that time.

This of course does not take into account every delay and issue that you may encounter in the project but it gives you a really good estimate.

Sound easy doesn’t it?

Don’t fool yourself. 99% of the class including me got the majority of this wrong in our homework. We spent last nights class time going over the process. The area that I screwed up in was in my formula. I had gotten a couple of items mixed up so obviously that killed everything else.

Our professor was nice enough to provide some makeup for the homework and I definitely plan on doing that. If I do it and get full credit I will be at a “B” instead of the “C” that I am at right now.

Hey I was a B & C with the occasional A student from K-12th grade. I am trying for  A’s and  B’s now but I have some things still to learn about studying so get off my back! Just kidding, it’s my first class and am still getting the hang of the whole school and real life thing.

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