Project Title: A Tool for Automatic Generation/Validation of PERT Diagrams
Student: Christopher Roddis-Ferrari
Course: BSc Hons Computer Science	and Management

Abstract:
With any task based project there are two main factors for successful 
completion. One is to meet the specification and the other is to 
complete the project in time. The Program and Evaluation Review 
Technique (PERT) has been widely used since the 1950's to aid time 
and resource management. Used in conjunction with Critical Path 
Mehtod (CPM), PERT diagrams are a major resource to reduce the time 
and cost for a project. The goal of this dissertation is to produce 
a program that can be used by project managers to generate PERT 
diagrams and a program that can be used educationally to validate 
the diagrams. The dissertation itself aims to solve the problem of 
there being no freely available programs to either generate or 
validate A-o-A PERT diagrams. The solution produced was a program 
in which data can be inputted and PERTS diagrams drawn as well as 
the option to draw a PERT diagram within the program and check its 
validity. The program also allows the user to open and save PERT 
diagrams in addition to exporting them in the form of screenshots 
or printouts. The dissertation explores the program use within the 
wider business community, before finally, the future work required 
to create a distributable program is outlined.