The Critical Path Method: A Work Planning Tool

The critical path method is a planning tool especially suitable for activities that have a certain complexity or in which several people are involved. Anyone can use this resource. Its main virtue is to clarify what has to be done, keeping the different stages of the project under control. It’s a technique that, rather unfairly, fell into disuse, only to be rediscovered much later. In fact, it was first proposed in the 1950s and was even used for the infamous Manhattan Project. Later, it was replaced by other tools, but a couple of decades ago it started to be employed…