Pros and Cons of AOA Method:
Advantages of AOA:
- Simpler and easier to trace paths with activity-event numbering scheme – a sense of “flow”.
- AOA easier to draw with complex dependencies and relationships between activities.
- Key events and milestones can be easily flagged.
Disadvantages of AOA:
- Need to use dummy activities – increases data requirements and difficult sometimes to envisage.
- Emphasis on events and milestones – may detract from activities and cause events to be late.