Cincinnati Equipment Company, which specializes in the manufacture of modern construction equipment, will be building a facility to house a new foundry. The company has selected a project manager and team to follow the project to completion. The project team is very interested in selecting an appropriate scheduling technique for the project. The project manager has thus set the following guidelines for the selection process: simple, able to show durations of events, the flow of work and the relative sequence of events, able to indicate planning and actual flow, which items may proceed at the same time and how far they are from completion. The assistant project manager likes PERT and the construction supervisor prefers CPM.
Q : If you were project manager, which method would you use, and why?