Comparative Analysis of Activity Duration in Project Management

Abstract

The  paper  attempt  to  compare  beta  distribution  against  triangular  distribution in  order  to  test  the  efficacy  of  each  distribution.  The distribution that achieve optimum completion time is most beneï¬cial. Project  evaluation  review  technique  and  critical  path  method are  procedures  employed  in  computing  completion  time  of  the  entire project activities  in  project  management. Micro soft  QM  computer software  version  2.0  is  use  to  attained  these  computations. Results were obtained and compared one against another.   Network analysis is also utilized in ï¬nding the minimal expected completion time of the entire project activities. Findings  establishes  that  triangular  distribution  has  the  minimum  completion  time.  Therefore, the conclusion indicates that triangular distribution is the best ï¬t to be selected.  To the  best  of  our  knowledge,  the  paper  is  the  ï¬rst  to  compare  two  distinct  approach  in  scheduling  project  activity  duration.                The results will pave way to potential users of this tools in future.