Planning a large-scale project can intimidate even veteran managers. Juggling multiple team members' schedules, setting achievable deadlines and identifying which tasks have to be done and which can ...

Large, complex business projects require thousands of separate activities and can cost millions of dollars. With such high stakes, managing these projects poses a challenge to any large organization.

(This material is not covered in Fraser, Bernhardt and Jewkes. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of ...

The conventional procedure for determining the expected project completion time is to find the critical path; its duration is treated as the expected completion time for the project. It is known among ...

First developed 60 years ago, the critical path method is now common practice among large contractors, and a recent survey of ENR Top 400 Contractors shows that practitioners are applying the tool and ...