pert

(pûrt)
adj., pert·er, pert·est.

1. Trim and stylish in appearance; jaunty: a pert hat.
2. High-spirited; vivacious.
3. Impudently bold; saucy.

[Middle English, unconcealed, bold, short for apert, obvious, frank (probably influenced by Old French aspert, espert, clever), from Old French, from Latin apertus, open, past participle of aperīre, to open.]

pertly pert'ly adv.
pertness pert'ness n.

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An acronym for program evaluation and review technique; a planning, scheduling, and control procedure based upon the use of time-oriented networks which reflect the interrelationships and dependencies among the project tasks (activities). The major objectives of PERT are to give management improved ability to develop a project plan and to properly allocate resources within overall program time and cost limitations, to control the time and cost performance of the project, and to replan when significant departures from budget occur.

The basic requirements of PERT, in its time or schedule form of application, are:

1. All individual tasks required to complete a given program must be visualized in a clear enough manner to be put down in a network composed of events and activities. An event denotes a specified program accomplishment at a particular instant in time. An activity represents the time and resources that are necessary to progress from one event to the next.

2. Events and activities must be sequenced on the network under a logical set of ground rules.

3. Time estimates can be made for each activity of the network on a three-way basis. Optimistic (minimum), most likely (modal), and pessimistic (maximum) performance time figures are estimated by the person or persons most familiar with the activity involved. The three-time estimates are used as a measure of uncertainty of the eventual activity duration.

4. Finally, critical path and slack times are computed. The critical path is that sequence of activities and events on the network that will require the greatest expected time to accomplish. Slack time is the difference between the earliest time that an activity may start (or finish) and its latest allowable start (or finish) time, as required to complete the project on schedule.

5. The difference between the pessimistic (b) and optimistic (a) activity performance times is used to compute the standard deviation () of the hypothetical distribution of activity performance times [ = (b − a)/6]. The PERT procedure employs these expected times and standard deviations (σ² is called variance) to compute the probability that an event will be on schedule, that is, will occur on or before its scheduled occurrence time.

In the actual utilization of PERT, review and action by responsible managers is required, generally on a biweekly basis, concentrating on important critical path activities. A major advantage of PERT is the kind of planning required to create an initial network. Network development and critical path analysis reveal interdependencies and problem areas before the program begins that are often not obvious or well defined by conventional planning methods.

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P rogram E valuation and R eview T echnique, a method for project planning by analyzing the time required for each step; diagrammed on a PERT chart.

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adjective

1. Very brisk, alert, and full of high spirits: animated, bouncy, chipper, dashing, high-spirited, lively, spirited, vivacious. Informal peppy. Idioms: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of life. See action/inaction.
2. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart. Informal brassy, flip, fresh, smart-alecky, snippety, snippy, uppish, uppity. Slang wise¹. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, courtesy/discourtesy.

adj

Definition: lively, bold
Antonyms: dull, humble, lifeless

1. Acronym for “project evaluation and review technique.”
2. See program estimation revaluation technique.

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IN BRIEF: Lively and perky; cheeky.

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity. — Hal Borland (1900-1978)

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kæphøj, næsvis

abbr. - Program Evaluation and Review Technique (programevalueringsteknik)

Nederlands (Dutch)
vrijpostig, levendig, parmantig

Français (French)
adj. - coquin, espiègle

abbr. - (abrév = Program Evaluation and Review Technique) PERT

Deutsch (German)
adj. - keck

abbr. - Programmauswertung und -überprüfungstechnik

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αυθάδης, θρασύς, αναιδής, τολμηρός, ρωμαλέος, τσαχπίνης, (καθομ.) ζωηρός, ζωντανός
abbr. - τεχνική αξιολόγησης προγράμματος

Italiano (Italian)
impertinente, vivace, sfacciato, metodo di valutazione e ricerca

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - atrevido, esperto
abbr. - pertinente

Русский (Russian)
дерзкий, бойкий, скабрезный, система программной оценки

Español (Spanish)
adj. - impertinente, respondón

abbr. - Técnica de Revisión y Evaluación de Programa

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - pigg, käck, fräck
abbr. - Program Evaluation and Review Technique

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
计划评核法

无礼的, 鲁莽的, 爱管闲事的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - 計劃評核法

adj. - 無禮的, 魯莽的, 愛管閒事的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 건방진, 멋진, 활발한

abbr. - Program Evaluation and Review Technique (계획.조직의 관리 방식)

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 生意気な, こしゃくな, でしゃばりな, いきな, 無遠慮な, 元気な, 快活な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) سليط اللسان, مملوء حيويه ونشاطا (اختصار) مختصر : منهج مراجعه و تققييم المشاريع Project evaluation and review technique‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חצוף, חוצפני, מלא-חיים, עליז‬
abbr. - ‮טכניקה להערכה ולעריכת שינויים בתוכנית‬

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