Project management with CPM PERT and precedence diagramming

3rd edition

by Joseph J. Moder (Author), Cecil R. Phillips (Author), Edward W. Davis (Author)

The year 1983 marks well over a decade since the publication of the 2nd edition of Project management with CPM PERT and precedence diagramming, and a quarter century since the initial development of PERT and CPM.

During this period, the methodology has matured considerably and the emphasis on the early “frills” of these techniques has all but disappeared.

While the concepts of PERT probabilities and the elegant time cost tradeoff of CPM were useful and helped to create credibility and interest in these techniques during their development and early application, emphasis has shifted towards problems deemed to be of more importance to practitioners.

We have tended to follow this movement in this third edition of Project management with CPM PERT and precedence diagramming. While we have not eliminated the so called “frills,” we have reduced the space devoted to them somewhat and have added new material that may improve their applicability.

Of interest to college instructors will be the added exercises at the end of most chapters, and the inclusion of many problem solutions at the end of Project management with CPM PERT and precedence diagramming.