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Project-Speak:  Managing the Critical Path

Managing the Critical PathConsidering 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?  read full article

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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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