Project Management: Finding the Critical Path(s) and Project Duration

In this short video I demonstrate how to draw a network diagram, find the critical path, and determine the project duration on a small example.
Please let me know in the comments how this video can be improved. I will make a new video based on your feedback.

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This man just completed the entire project duration problem in 4 mins

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Thank you so much for the easy breakdown of determining the critical path and duration. I was struggling with this but after watching this video, it makes sense!!!

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Thanks man. You helped me understand this in just 5mins whereas my university classes were confusing af.

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[@georgiangelov7258]

Thank you so much sir! That is a more efficient method to find the critical path, rather than calculating the total floats for each task.

[@mcanbolat]

Thanks. Floats are still important but not required to find the critical path(s).

[@salomeasmr5033]

This is the critical path method or CPM, in other videos I have seen that try to explain the critical path method by the pert method. Thanks for your explanation.

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The mark of a great teacher.

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Wowwww! Thanks alot. Your explanation is simple and very clear. I have being struggling with critical pathway for so long, your short explanation clarified things better.

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[@teresaricoy1639]

I am impressed how easy you made it look. I was able to follow you all the way and even doing some of the paths before you finished the path. I wonder if yo have any videos explaining what are critical junctures and how to determine the them, in other words, what make it critical or not. I bet all yours students get As, because you make it so easy to understand. This is why being a professor (Dr) makes a difference in teaching courses, you have a deep knowledge in the subject matter. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@mcanbolat]

Thanks. That would be an interesting research question. I believe it depends on the project and merge or burst activities could be considered as critical junctures.

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@@mcanbolat Thank you Professor for your response.

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What a amazing explanation

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thanks 😊 your video is simple for network analysis so, your video is very usefull for me

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Tysm it all makes sense now. Man I hate the comptia project+ exam.

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[@pranjalshukla8096]

Thank You alot for the video, now i need to know how to find out duration time, from a table in a question in which Time estimate and Expected time is given

[@mcanbolat]

You need to use the expected times as activity durations and find the critical path. I have a video on PERT as well.

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You are welcome!

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[@deeptikumarroy8630]

critical path is the path with zero slack, which means not one day can be wasted to complete the whole project. This means project time is the completion time. This means we have to find a path with max completion time. Also, critical path is also used for earliest completion time. Also, the float activity is zero for critical path.

[@radyaevandhika5451]

sooo.. does critical path have the longest duration or the shortest duration? i can't understand the point u were saying, my bad

[@javeriaareej1281]

If we have two crtical path then what will happened which path should we choosed???

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How did u get the intermediate precedence ??

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