[PERT] Not to be outdone by Panera, Pizza Hut has decided…
Not to be outdone by Panera, Pizza Hut has decided to produce a line of lifestyle clothing centered around the brand and its products. But they need to release this during the summer, meaning tight attention to scheduling. The PERT chart below shows the necessary tasks to get from generating the product concept (node A) to product launch (node H), their dependencies, and the time it will take to move from one task to the next, in weeks. How long is it expected to take to launch the product? If the company wants to lower the launch time, which change will achieve this?