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Making a Party out of Project Management: Chapter 3 - Figuring Out the Details - Part 4 of 4

  • Jul 26, 2025
  • 5 min read

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

               The next day, Abby continued to work on the schedule of setting up the party. Most of the work on this was done, but she needed to make sure everything could get done in time for the party. To do this, Abby would calculate a very important timeline in project management known as the critical path. The critical path is the absolute minimum amount of time required to complete all the work for a project from start to finish, and any delays in the tasks on the critical path will cause a delay in when the project is finished. If you want to finish a project as soon as possible, what are the tasks that all have to happen one right after another with no break in between them?

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