PERT Chart

This is a fairly standard way of representing a project. The focus is on identifying starting and ending relationships between tasks. Each box represents a task. The box contains information on the description of the task, its outline number, and start/end information.

Lines from one task to another indicate a dependency - each rightmost task starts when all the predecessors to its left have completed.

A task with zero duration is considered to be a "milestone" and is drawn with rounded corners. The "critical path" traces the sequence of events that are directly responsible for the completion of the project. By definition; a task is on the critical path if extending that tasks duration adds to the end date of the latest task in the project. Tasks or milestones on the critical path are drawn in red.

Note: Pert Charts with a large number of tasks can take up a lot of space when printing!