So I'm working through this and got to the section about the PERT formula, which states: O = Optimistic, everything goes smoothly; example: Maria already has a template. No rewrites needed. Maybe 2 hours. M = Most likely, normal day, few edits, nothing wild; example: She drafts, gets quick feedback, tweaks it. Maybe 4 hours. P = Delays and hiccups happen; example: Stakeholder changes direction twice, big rewrites. Maybe 7 hours. so using the PERT formula Expected = (O + 4M + P) ÷ 6 - Optimistic O = 2 hours - Most likely M = 4 hours - Pessimistic P = 7 hours If we plug in those numbers, it becomes: Expected = (2 + 4·4 + 7) ÷ 6 This is the part where we go back to middle school math and reuse PEMDAS (also known as GEMS, GEMA, BODMAS & BIDMAS) but to be simple it's our order of operations! First solve in your bracket or parenthesis, keeping order, so move onto your multiplication first. 4x4 = 16, now you're left with (2+16+7) ÷ 6 Finish off your parenthesis then move on to division, (25) ÷ 6 This is going to give us a rounding decimal, and at the end we'll have roughly E = 4.17 hours as the "most likely" estimate. *Some information has been requested so I'm going to be adding to this a little bit! * When working with the PERT formula, as seen above it is written as (O+4M+P) ÷ 6, let's expand a little on that and why we have the 4 & 6 within our forumla! Within the PERT formula the 4 & 6 are included to create a weighted average, not a regular average. Our "most likely" metric is mulitplied by 4 because PERT assumes the "most likely" outcome should matter more than the extreme outcomes. A normal average of the three estimates would be O+M+P÷3 but this treats the three metrics as *equally important* and for real projects that isn't realistic. Our most likely estimate is usualyl more representative than the "everything goes perfectly" or "everything goes wrong" scenarios. This is why PERT give the most likely estimate extra weight by counting it four times.

I want to make sure the proper credit is given where is respectively due.... I believe the creator of the link in the Title goes to Alesia Kapadia and I believe that it is a GREAT COMMUNITIVE SPACE very comparable and relatable to THIS VERY COMMUNITY HERE... so I'd like to extend and encourage it's use to any and all other Maestro peers!!...

Happy Holidays to all my fellow peers! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday weekend! Idk about ya'll but I am looking forward to getting back to the grind, Monday cannot come fast enough!

Just finished PY103, this class was a lot more intense. I got to see my graded review scored 80 out 100. I thought about retaking, but decided not to as I am proud of my 80% lol. As soon as I can push my notes over to my ICloud from my Jupyter Notebook I will post on this post. Please feel free to use or not. Ready for my term break week lol.

Hello everyone Kansas students today we will have to post pone the meeting. I will update everyone on when I will give another date I had some personal emergency that I need to be able to take care of thanks.