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Excerpt from The Effects of Pert on R& D Organizations
This study, which is part of a larger study of project management, (marquis and Straight, Rubin and Marquis Rubin was car ried out to investigate the effects of Program Evaluation and Review Technique (pert) on large r&d organizations. Since pert is primarily a scheduling system, prior research has focused on its effectiveness in solving scheduling problems; (see, for example, h]) in addition, there has been some research concerning management use and acceptance of pert. Hayya, (hayya l]) for instance, has done an exhaustive study on the implementation of pert by the Department of Defense. There was, apparently, much bitterness generated as a result of this implementation, but as Hayya suggests Much of the friction between the government and the aerospace industry attributed to pert is really due to the older, more subtle and extremely more complex marriage between the defense establishment and.the aerospace industry. (hayya, 1966, pages 2 - 3) Hayya derives a decision model, based upon variables such as type and size of contract, by means of which a procurement manager may decide to require the use of pert. Although this type of research is extremely valuable, it does leave some questions unanswered.
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