SNS207_02

INTRODUCTION TO
SPACE TECHNOLOGY:
[PROJECT PLANNING 101]

HAITHAM ELSHIMY, PhD

Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering, Space Navigation Department
Faculty of Navigation Science & Space Technology [NSST]
haithamelshimy222@gmail.com
haitham.elshimy@nsst.bsu.edu.eg
 COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is an overview of Space Technology.

It presents the basic fundamentals of aerospace engineering at the

introductory level in the clearest, simplest, and most motivating
way possible.

It shows the importance of project planning and management and

how it can save cost and effort.
 PROJECT PLANNING
PROJECT EVALUATION AND REVIEWING TECHNIQUES
[PERT]
 PROJECT PLANNING
PROJECT EVALUATION AND REVIEWING TECHNIQUES
[PERT]

• A PERT chart makes planning large projects easier.

• It answers three key questions about each activity that help managers
identify relationships between tasks and task dependencies.
• These questions are
1. how long it will take to complete an activity, and
2. which other activities must occur immediately before
3. and immediately after this activity for effective project completion.

PERT is a good way of making these relationships visible in a diagram.

 PROJECT PLANNING
PROJECT EVALUATION AND REVIEWING TECHNIQUES
[PERT]
 Project networks were designed by a number of firms in the 1950s. The so-
called critical path method (or CPM for short) was developed by du Pont de
Nemours and the Remington Rand Univac corporations for construction
projects.

 At roughly the same time, the United States Navy in conjunction with the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and the consulting firm of Booz, Allen, and
Hamilton devised the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
for their Polaris missile program.

 Even though CPM and PERT have completely independent backgrounds,

today we can consider them very close brothers.
STAGES OF PERT:
CONSTRUCTION OF ARROW NETWORK
VIP DEFINITIONS:

1.EVENT 1 2

2.ACTIVITY
3
3.PATH 4
 CONSTRUCTION OF ARROW NETWORK
RULES OF CONSTRUCTION:

A
1. One Activity = One Arrow 1 2
2. Any Two activities can’t have 3
same start and ending events. E A
G
3. For an activity to start, all 1 F 252 2 6
earlier activities must end first. 4
B
CONSTRUCTION OF ARROW NETWORK
RULES OF CONSTRUCTION: (SPECIAL
CASES)

3 6
E G
F 2325
H
4
7

E G
3 62 7
(dummy)
J
F H
4 35 8
 CONSTRUCTION OF ARROW NETWORK
KEY QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK FOR EACH
ACTIVITY:

1. What are the activities that must be finished before the start of the current
activity?
2. What are the activities that can be started after the end of the current activity?
3. What are the activities that can be implemented in parallel to the current
activity?
CONSTRUCTION OF ARROW NETWORK
EXAMPLE:
Activity Preceding
Activity
A ----
B ----
C ----
D A
E D,F
F A,B
G B,C
H F
I E,H
J B
K J,G
 CONSTRUCTION OF ARROW NETWORK
EXAMPLE:
E
7 8
D

Preceding
Activity

Activity
H

I
F
2 4 6
1
A A ----
0
B K B ----
1 3
C ----
D A
J
C

G E D,F
5 9 F A,B
G B,C
H F
I E,H
J B
 EXAMPLE

C
2 4
A F

1 E 6
B G
D
3 5