
Learn critical path analysis and critical path method through forward and backward passes, calculating early start, early finish, late start, late finish, and total float to identify the critical path.
Apply the backward pass to compute late finish and late start from the project network, ensuring all activities stay within boundaries to finish on time.
Compute total float from late start minus early start and late finish minus early finish, identify the critical path as the longest sequence with zero float, totaling 12 days.
Solve the exercise by walking through forward and backward passes on the network diagram, identifying early and late starts and finishes, calculating floats, and confirming the critical path.
Conclude your study of critical path with a concise wrap-up that reinforces project management goals, prepares for certification exams, and invites feedback to improve future courses.
Are you a Project Manager or, would you like to be? Perhaps you are preparing for the PMP exam or trying to figure out scheduling software. Maybe, you simply want to hang out with your new buddy, Dean Sheppard for an hour. Whatever your excuse, this is the course for you. Project Management: Critical Path Primer will take you on a journey - forward and backward - through this elegant and essential scheduling tool.
You will learn:
What Critical Path means
What a Network Diagram is
How to create a Network Diagram
How to perform a forward pass through the schedule
How to perform a backward pass through the schedule
How to find the critical path that your project will follow - beginning through completion.
Your facilitator, Dean, is a PMP (Project Management Professional) and has taught thousands of students in corporations and academic institutions worldwide. He has impressive credentials including a diploma in Aeronautical Engineering, and 3 advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - in Mechanical Engineering and System Design and Management (Sloan School of Business).
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