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Line 16: ==History== PERT was developed primarily to simplify the planning and scheduling of large and complex projects. It was developed by the [[United States Navy Special Projects Office]], [[Lockheed Aircraft]], and [[Booz Allen Hamilton]] to support the Navy's [[Polaris missile]] project.<ref name="MRCW 1959">Malcolm, Donald G.; Roseboom, John H.; Clark, Charles E.; [[Willard Fazar\|Fazar, Willard]]; "Application of a Technique for Research and Development Program Evaluation", ''Operations Research'', vol. 7, no. 5, September–October 1959, pp. 646–669</ref><ref name="byte198205">{{Cite magazine \|~~last~~last1=Zimmerman \|~~first~~first1=Steve \|last2=Conrad \|first2=Leo M. \|date=May 1982 \|title=Programming PERT in BASIC \|url=https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1982-05_OCR/page/n466/mode/1up?view=theater \|access-date=2024-12-29 \|magazine=BYTE \|pages=~~465-478~~465–478}}</ref> It found applications throughout industry. An early example is the [[1968 Winter Olympics]] in [[Grenoble]] which used PERT from 1965 until the opening of the 1968 Games.<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1968/or1968.pdf 1968 Winter Olympics official report], p. 49. Accessed 1 November 2010. {{in lang\|en\|fr}}</ref> This project model was the first of its kind, a revival for the [[scientific management]] of Frederick Taylor and later refined by Henry Ford ([[Fordism]]). [[DuPont]]'s CPM was invented at roughly the same time as PERT. [[File:PERT Summary Report Phase 2, 1958.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|''PERT Summary Report Phase 2'', 1958]] Line 329: [[Category:Booz Allen Hamilton]] [[Category:Operations research]] ~~[[Category:Management cybernetics]]~~ [[Category:Engineering management]] [[Category:Management science]]