Critical Path Analysis project management tool with examples

1. Critical Path Analysis
Corporate Management
Bryan Witt
David Zaki

2. WAKE UP!
The presentation
may start slow….
BUT
It will electrify you
by the end

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Now Seriously Why ?
To be able to plan and analyze complex
projects that include a lot of tasks and
dependencies.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Simple example

9. Example 2

10. Result for example 2

11. Final example

12. Result for final example

13. 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?