In the project management world, critical tasks are the jobs your team must complete to finish a project. The critical path is the sequence of critical tasks, identifying which order to complete ...

The mysterious critical path notion seems to put project managers in difficulty and especially the novice ones. In order to clear things up we need to have a background knowledge.

What is the critical path in project management? The critical path in project management is the longest sequence of dependent tasks that must be completed for a project to finish on time.

Stuart Ockman is president of Ockman & Borden Associates, project management consultants based in the Philadelphia area. He started his career at Bechtel working on power projects but now ...

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is commonly used for construction scheduling. It compares construction tasks, prioritizes them based on their impact on the schedule, and identifies the critical path.

If you don’t know the difference between predictive project management methodologies and Agile frameworks, our beginner’s guide will clear things up for you.

James J. O’Brien, 91, a co-founder and former CEO and chairman of construction management innovator O’Brien-Kreitzberg & Associates Inc. and an early guru of critical-path method (CPM ...

The critical path method provides a structured approach to project scheduling, allowing you to identify the operations most important for successful project completion. You have to know how to ...