Developing activity duration specification limits for effective project control

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2005.03.017MaRDI QIDQ2503086zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. A. Bowman

Publication date 13 September 2006

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.03.017

zbMATH Keywords

PERT networksproject management and schedulingsimulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50)

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