Paper Review Assignment

Paper Title: - A UNIT BASED CRASHING PERT NETWORK FOR OPTIMIZATION OF SOFTWARE
PROJECT COST
Author(s):-Singh, Priti, Florentin Smarandache, Dipti Chauhan, and Amit Bhaghel
Full Name: Damto Ragea
Id:  QX1612

Instructions:
–     Understand the area; analyze the area of the paper, objective of the paper, methodology used, scope of
the paper, result and conclusions.
–     Personal critics and evaluation of the paper has to be included in the review (what are the limitations,
points to be improved, etc.).
Note: - Do not copy the content of the paper as it is. Use your words by indicating what the paper is dealing
with and your personal evaluation added.

Introduction 

In this paper, I want to review a technique called Unit crashing to decrease the total cost of project. Unit
Crashing means to crash the project period. Running a project that needs coordination of several tasks one of
the most difficult tasks a manager can take on. The Considerate part of precedence in activity connection is a
critical skill a project management executive needs when starting a project. This implies that setting the order of
precedence in line with the life span or completion time for each work or sub-project is a prerequisite task in
project planning. Fortunately, two closely related operations research approaches, PERT (program evaluation
and review technique) and CPM (critical path method), exist to aid the project manager in fulfilling these
obligations. These strategies make extensive use of networks to assist in planning and displaying the
synchronization of all operations.

Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of quantitative operations research tools such as
the Project Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) and the Critical Path Method (CPM) on the efficient
management of projects.

Objectives 

The Objective of this project is to present a method called “Unit Crashing” to decrease the over-all cost of
the project management, in a separately action of the project in order to improve the period of the project
events, thereby minimizing the total project prices and period.
The specific objectives these papers are
Discovery out numerous options for the actions.
To acquire the critical path.
To attain the direct and indirect cost which influence on the project price.
 Gain the Best Duration and Optimal Price of the project.

Methodology 

Methodology used to design this revision, which revised theoretical and experimental orientations to project
evaluation review techniques and critical path methods, with a specific importance on work instances and
investigation. The Project management includes the procedures essential to ensure the project is ended on
timetable. The procedures are as follows: plan schedule management, define actions, order activities,
approximation activity durations, develop a timetable, and governor the schedule.

Flow Chart:

Gathering of paper review related to Crashing to Optimize software Projects.

Gathering of information concerning events, price and time from current.

Consecutive procedure of tasks and their individual periods.

Producing a network and decisive the critical path.

Apply Network unit Crashing

technique on it. (Adding and
assigning alternative resources.)

Selecting optimum cost value and time duration from the Crashing project network obtained.

Process of unit crashing:

PHASE 1:- Find the critical path and decide the project cost.
PHASE 2:- Invention the cost-slope of critical actions.
Cost slope = (Crash cost-
 Normal cost) (Normal
duration- Crash duration)
PHASE 3:- give rank the critical actions in the ascending order of the cost slope.
PHASE 4:-make Crash the actions in the critical
path as per the ranking. (Events can only
be crashed up to its crash length).
PHASE 5:- make Analyze the price of project next crashing.
PHASE 6:- Similarly test the related direct and indirect prices of the project.
PHASE 7:- Recap the similar process until the optimum cost and duration are found.

Scope 

The scope of this paper is to get optimum results presenting a method called “Unit Crashing” to decrease
the total price of project ,to crash the project period by one unit (day) as a substitute of crashing it
completely of current methods. Intended for this resolution, various practices have been argued such as Critical
path method, Project evaluation review technique, Project crashing deals with various project evaluation
techniques.

Result and Conclusion 

Finding of the arithmetical design shows that, the results shows how the total cost of the project is reduced as
the total duration is crashed. Before uncrashing, the minimum cost of project is Rs. 124100 for the project
duration of 30 days and after uncrashing, the minimum cost will be Rs.123400 for the project duration of 30
days. As per the network crashing mechanism they got the Optimum duration with deference to optimum cost
at a certain point and additional they noticed increased in the cost, at that point they gotten the optimum cost
and the optimum duration of the project. The crashing of the project duration can also be done beyond its
optimal point, if the assets and others are easily accessible and in situation when the recovery of invested
amount i.e. the refund amount can be found in a short period after the close of the work.

Personal Evaluation 

These journalists state that they have no clashes of interest

Personal Conclusion 
Numerous risks and doubts happen in Software projects Managements. They principal to projects not
completed within time and cost limits. In Software projects Managements, Project Managers always use
previous execution experiences to estimate project durations and costs, which lead to many risks during
project execution. This study presents A UNIT BASED CRASHING PERT NETWORK FOR
OPTIMIZATION OF SOFTWARE PROJECT COST. This method is expedient when managers want to
avoid incoming wicked endure season. This paper provides the optimal crashing policy for a PERT network
to reduce the probable cost of the total (crash + overrun) cost have been given a stated drawback purpose for
last completion of the project. They presented a method called “Unit crashing” to reduce the whole
development cost. They considered iterative method, which endures until all actions along the critical path
are crashed by anticipated amount. Provides advanced algorithm for an optimum crashing method to
minimize the essential price although reaching a stated end period.