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Explain how scheduling techniques permit both constraint and flexibility in cost and scheduling. Why do they work this way?

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Scheduling techniques like PERT and CPM permit both constraint and flexibility in cost and scheduling

Program evaluation and review technique (PERT) charts depict task, duration, and dependency information. Each chart starts with an initiation node from which the first task, or tasks, originates. If multiple tasks begin at the same time, they are all started from the node or branch, or fork out from the starting point. Each task is represented by a line which states its name or other identifier, its duration, the number of people assigned to it, and in ...

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