One aspect of what is called PERTING a project is to decide which activities are immediate predecessors of others. There may be a difference of opinion as to what these relationships might be. For...

One aspect of what is called PERTING a project is to decide which activities are immediate predecessors of others. There may be a difference of opinion as to what these relationships might be. For example, suppose management at the very successful South Coast Repertory Theater (SCR) in Costa Mesa, California, held a brainstorming session to try to identify the steps to putting on a play. In no particular order, the management team came up with the following 11 activities: