The current PERT definition is "Program Evaluation and Review Technique." Created by the United States Navy after World War II, PERT has become a popular management strategy for handling large-scale, ...

Large, complex business projects require thousands of separate activities and can cost millions of dollars. With such high stakes, managing these projects poses a challenge to any large organization.

To Washington this week as guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called ...