A New Look at Network Diagrams
A New Look at Network Diagrams
Network diagrams have been a cornerstone of project schedule analysis since the PERT and CPM methods of the late 1950s, yet most practitioners today experience them only through the Activity-on-Node lens of tools like Microsoft Project — where tasks are boxes, dependencies are lines, and hammock tasks and event-based logic require awkward workarounds.
What You'll Learn
Key takeaways from this session
A clear understanding of how PERT and CPM evolved into today's Activity-on-Node scheduling tools, and why that legacy still shapes how we build schedules
A working knowledge of the structural differences between Activity-on-Node and Activity-on-Edge models, and how each represents tasks, dependencies, and events
The ability to recognize program scenarios where Activity-on-Edge modeling delivers real advantages through native hammock tasks and event-based dependency ties
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About the Presenter
Eric Christoph
Earlier in his career Eric served as Corporate EVM Subject Matter Expert for L-3 Communications. In that role he implemented multiple EIA-748 Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and helped build baseline plans for over 100 projects and proposal efforts with a combined value over $400B. Eric also represented L-3 on the Board of the NDIA Integrated Program Management Division (IPMD) which oversees the EIA-748 standard. Over the last fifteen years Eric has contributed to several key guidance documents related to EVM including the PMI Practice Standard for EVM, MIL-STD-881, and GAO-16-89G. Today, Eric is a Senior Partner at Transformative Management Solutions where we help project teams and organizations implement EVM and Agile project control solutions using Microsoft Power Platform technologies.
