The critical path method is a system for organizing all of the tasks that need to be done to complete a project and estimating how long the project will take. CPM analysis pinpoints the most ...

The Critical Path Method, known under its acronym CPM, is a way of optimizing the sequence of scheduled activities, or tasks, in a project. This is a management tool designed to ensure a project's ...

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 ...

See how the critical path method (CPM) can be used for project management in our detailed guide. We’ll walk you through how to calculate it and share real-world examples for applying CPM to different ...

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 ...

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) construction ...