Critical Path Analysis Corporate Management

Bryan Witt David Zaki

WAKE UP!

The presentation

may start slow….

BUT

It will electrify you

by the end

What is CPA ?

•  CPA: Critical Path Analysis

•  It’s a method for scheduling a set of

project activities.

•  It’s an effective tool for project

management.

Why CPA ?

Because we believe that one day you’ll

be one of those successful project

managers at one of those BIG

companies you dream of working at.

Now Seriously Why ?

To be able to plan and analyze complex

projects that include a lot of tasks and

dependencies.

Procedure

1.  Identify all the tasks, their lengths and dependencies between them.

2.  List the tasks in the task table.

3.  Each task is represented by a line in the diagram with one start node and one end node.

4. Write the task designation and length on the line representing each task.

Procedure

5. Process is drawn starting from left

towards the right.

6. More than one task can start at the

same node.

7. More than one task can finish at the

same node.

8. Each node should be numbered with

the EST and LST.

Simple example

Example 2

Result for example 2

Final example

Result for final example

Conclusion

•  To review, CPA is a useful tool for everyone involved in an events decision making process.

•  Not nearly as hard as it looks and can be applied to the most complex examples.

•  Questions?