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 ...

The critical path method, or CPM, of project management lists all activities required to complete a project, the length of time each is expected to take and the dependencies between tasks. By ...

We've covered work load management, estimating, inventory control and labor. The next basic is job scheduling. So, you were either invited to bid a job, awarded a street bid job through the Blue Book ...

Anytime you have to complete a project with multiple tasks, scheduling becomes a problem, especially when some tasks are done simultaneously while some are dependent upon the completion of others. The ...

The amount of effort spent scheduling the work on today’s construction projects is staggering. In addition to critical-path method schedules, contractors use sketches, Visio graphics, Excel sheets and ...

In a relatively recent case, Metcalf Construction Co. v. U.S., 107 Fed. Cl. 786 (2012), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims once again looked to the critical path method (CPM) in determining the ...

The advent of ever-more powerful software has relieved contractors of tedious work ranging from bookkeeping to taxes to estimating. Time that used to be spent manually crunching numbers for these and ...

The construction industry has long grappled with the challenge of effective project scheduling. Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, while powerful, has often been the domain of specialized ...