Learn how to use the PERT method, a project management tool, to improve collaborative problem solving for complex and uncertain projects.

PERT involves breaking down your project into smaller and manageable units, called work packages, and then creating a network diagram that shows the sequence and interrelationships of these units.

After a very brief exposition of the PERT method, a critical discussion is given of three basic assumptions of PERT. The assumptions are: 1) that a β distribution defined between the pessimistic and ...