Anytime you have to complete a project with multiple tasks, scheduling becomes a problem, especially when some tasks are done simultaneously while some are dependent upon the completion of others. The ...

The critical path method, or CPM, of project management lists all activities required to complete a project, the length of time each is expected to take and the dependencies between tasks. By ...

I view much of what’s happened in critical path method (CPM) scheduling and planning as a direct offspring of the ENR cover story, “Off the Critical Path,” published in 2003. It discussed widespread ...

The critical path method (CPM) is the scheduling method upon which most new product development schedules are based. It was developed in 1957 by DuPont to assist in managing a series of well-scripted, ...

In a relatively recent case, Metcalf Construction Co. v. U.S., 107 Fed. Cl. 786 (2012), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims once again looked to the critical path method (CPM) in determining the ...

Recently added to the growing assortment of quantitative tools for business decision making is the Critical Path Method—a powerful but basically simple technique for analyzing, planning, and ...