The Critical Path Method

Mario Vanhoucke

Chapter Chapter 3 in Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling, 2012, pp 37-56 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter makes an effort to tighten the gap between the project scheduling literature and the needs of project managers and schedulers through the use of a practical computerized simulation game. Project managers are constantly confronted with the intricacy of scheduling a complex real-life problem in an efficient way when they often have little knowledge of the state-of-the-art in the algorithmic developments or inherent characteristics of the scheduling problem they solve. A game has been developed that serves as a training tool to help practitioners gain insight in project scheduling. The well-known critical path method (CPM) with activity time/cost trade-offs is introduced to the reader, and used as a project scheduling technique in the game.

Keywords: Critical Path Method (CPM); Project Scheduling; Crash Duration (CD); Discrete Time-cost Tradeoff Problem (DTCTP); Target Deadline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25175-7_3

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