The mysterious Bipert Float

Recently some questions were raised in PMHUB LL Forums about Bipert Float. It seems that PMP Aspirants encountered this term in PMP Exam. So far - there is one paper titled: "Workload Modeling for Parallel Processing Systems" (written in 1995 by Gabriele Kotsis for her Ph Thesis - University of Vienna) that has references to Bipert. This is the only document available in the internet at this moment (June 30), that refer to this term. The reference to BIPERT can be found only in the BIBLIOGRAPHY of this 201 pages PH D Thesis. See below by clicking MORE ... My questions: Why is this particular term part of PMP Exam? Is this part of the 25 test questions? Is this topic so important that all PMP should know the concept and applications? Will this topic be in PMBOK 4th edition? If you know the answers to the above or have any comments on this topic, please fill in the PMHUB web feedback

Recent experience and experience from a new PMP on this topic is posted in PMHUB LL Forums: for example this LL (check the bottom - in italic -  of the LL from Romania:  click this LL
In conclusion, lacking any solid simple explanation and applcations, the question can only be answered by best effort.. It is no use to panic about this one "obscure" subject. Good luck!

We received a feedback from Crispin ("Kik") Piney (WEB FEEDBACK)

"In answer to the question "is this in the PMBOK 4th Edition?", the answer is NO. PERT is only referred to with respect to 3-point estimates and not for schedule network analysis or for risk management. BiPERT as I understand it is not even a project network analysis technique and is out-of-date anyway given more modern simulation tools and techniques."

So the real question is: Why does PMI believe that Bipert Float is so important to include this topic in the PMP Exam?

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