Project Planning and Management Tools

Several tools that are useful in the planning and management of biopharmaceutical projects are identified in Table 27.8. Definitions can be found in the Project Management Institute s (PMI) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (5) and within the tutorial and help sections of Microsoft Project . 

Decision trees Milestone charts PERT charts Gantt charts 

It is important to point out that these tools are useful only after the project objectives goals Go/No-Go decisions decision criteria and operating assumptions have been established. The project planning management tools are presented in Table 27.8 in the order in which they would be introduced in a project planning process. 

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