This week’s topics
Critical Path Method and Research Schedule Optimisation
- Formulating network diagrams and determining critical path
- Schedule float, slack analysis, and bottleneck identification
- Resource levelling and smoothing during intensive empirical phases
- Fast-tracking and schedule crashing strategies for doctoral research
- Lec 53- PERT and Crashing
What you will be able to do
- 3.3 Identify critical path and optimize resource usage.
Activity
Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: identify critical path and optimize resource usage.
Study materials
Videos
- Project Scheduling - PERT/CPM | Finding Critical Path · YouTube · Joshua Emmanuel · 7 min · for registered students
- CRITICAL PATH METHOD in PROJECT MANAGEMENT | Project Scheduling Network Diagram| Operations Research · YouTube · PMPwithRay · 39 min · for registered students
- Critical Path Method (CPM) Made Simple: A Complete Guide · YouTube · PM Aspirant · 25 min · for registered students
- Network Charts: What's the Difference between PERT and CPM? · YouTube · Online PM Courses - Mike Clayton · 8 min · for registered students
- Use forward and backward pass to determine project duration and critical path · YouTube · Engineer4Free · 7 min · for registered students
Further resources
- MIT OCW ESD.36 System Project Management (Fall 2012), Critical path method · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
- Foundations of Information Systems, 9.2: Project objectives and schedule · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 348–349 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
