Tips and Techniques
for Critical Path Management
Project-Speak: Managing the Critical Path
Considering
the nature of most projects, critical path* analysis can be a mind
numbing experience. But every project schedule is a living
entity, which must be continually monitored and manipulated. From a
practical standpoint, critical path analysis is all about "breathing
room" .... to find the tasks with float, versus tasks that must
start and end at a specific point in time. What's on the
critical path in your projects? How can you use critical path to
calculate "early or late" start and finish dates?
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*Critical Path Note: In the ITtoolkit.com fast track process, the critical path is identified in the definition phase and managed in the oversight phase.
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