Program Evaluation Review Technique Law and Legal Definition
Program evaluation review technique (PERT) is a project management tool that outlines project events to aid in scheduling the time needed to complete a project. Program evaluation and review technique charts depict task, duration, and dependency information. Each chart starts with an initiation node from which the first task, or tasks, originates. If multiple tasks begin at the same time, they are all started from the node or branch, or fork out from the starting point. Each task is represented by a line which states its name or other identifier, its duration, the number of people assigned to it, and in some cases the initials of the personnel assigned. The other end of the task line is terminated by another node which identifies the start of another task, or the beginning of any slack time, that is, waiting time between tasks.
PERT is a methodology developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s to manage the Polaris submarine missile program. A similar methodology, the Critical Path Method (CPM), which was developed for project management in the private sector at about the same time, has become synonymous with PERT, so that the technique is known by any variation on the names: PERT, CPM, or PERT/CPM.
Legal Definition list
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique
- Program Effectiveness Panel [Education]
- Program Component Area
- Program and Plan of Use [Education]
- Proforma Defendent
- Program Evaluation Review Technique
- Program for All-Inclusive Care for Elderly (PACE)
- Program for the Training Physician Assistants
- Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986
- Program Income
- Program Investment [Internal Revenue]
