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.

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 ...

The critical path method (CPM) is the scheduling method upon which most new product development schedules are based. It was developed in 1957 by DuPont to assist in managing a series of well-scripted, ...