The critical path method, a product of operations research, helps you set timetables for complicated projects made up of multiple interdependent tasks. Getting these kinds of projects done in the most ...

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 break ...

Critical Path-Method scheduling and Lean Construction techniques seem at first to have an inherent conflict, one focused on the long-term and the other focused on the near-term, but that isn't the ...

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 specializes ...

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 ...