Schedule Management and Critical Path

Every project is a race against the one resource you cannot requisition, borrow, or manufacture: time. Whether you are migrating a global enterprise to a new cloud infrastructure or constructing a commercial high-rise, Project Schedule Management includes the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project. To control a project, you must first map its anatomy. You cannot simply list thousands of tasks in a spreadsheet and hope they naturally align. Instead, we must mathematically model the flow of time, uncovering the invisible, critical arteries of work that dictate exactly when a project will finish and where its most dangerous bottlenecks lie.

A bottleneck occurs when the flow of work is constrained by a single stage, much like traffic slowing down at a narrow point. Schedule models help expose these constraints before they delay a project.
A bottleneck occurs when the flow of work is constrained by a single stage, much like traffic slowing down at a narrow point. Schedule models help expose these constraints before they delay a project.