... the project behind as well.Keeping in mind that this is the 10- Minute Guide to Project Management and not a 480-page tome, let's look at how you could use PERT/CPM to manage a simple project. ... and the same, so hereafter, we will refer to PERT/CPM as a unified approach to project management. TIP Project managers have used PERT/CPM to compress project schedules by identifying which tasks ... need to be complete.● For Tasks 8, 9, and 10, only Task 7 needs to be complete, as Tasks 8, 9, and 10 all start at the same time.● For Task 12, "install software," Task 10 needs to...