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Critical path analysis allows project managers to identify the most important tasks in a project to help ensure it is completed on time. It provides insight into a project's timeline by visually highlighting which tasks must be completed according to schedule and which durations may be able to be reduced. This helps shorten timelines and improve resource management. It also enables better planning by facilitating ongoing comparisons of planned versus actual progress.

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Project Manager Questions

Critical path analysis allows project managers to identify the most important tasks in a project to help ensure it is completed on time. It provides insight into a project's timeline by visually highlighting which tasks must be completed according to schedule and which durations may be able to be reduced. This helps shorten timelines and improve resource management. It also enables better planning by facilitating ongoing comparisons of planned versus actual progress.

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• No extra expenses involved during the whole project

• Communication between the teams is smooth


• No confusion in the requirements given by the stakeholders
• No confusion in the deadlines and the deliverables
• Each role and responsibilities are clear to the resources
• Project deliverables are finished within the specified deadline
Critical path allows teams to identify the most important tasks in a project. But, if you’re a seasoned project manager working on a familiar project, you may have no
problem pinpointing these critical tasks. So, why should you care?
Here are three more ways critical path can make your project a success, especially if you’re using Smartsheet:
Shortened Timelines: When the critical path method is displayed as a bar chart, such as a Gantt chart, you can visualize the critical path activities as well as task
durations and their sequences. In Smartsheet, critical path tasks are outlined in red, so they are easy to spot at a glance. This provides a higher level of insight into
your project’s timeline and a correlation between tasks, giving you more understanding about which task durations you can modify, and which must stay the same. If
you want to complete the project in a shorter time frame, it’s easy to see which tasks are the best candidates for duration reduction.
 
Improved Resource Management: With so much going on, the critical path provides a clear direction and enhanced visibility into what must happen next and who
needs to do it. Once you’ve identified these critical tasks and ownership expectations, you get rid of competing priorities or lack of direction. Everyone on the team is
aware of the tasks that need to take place and the project manager can better allocate resources.
 
Better Planning: The critical path method can also be used to compare planned progress with actual progress. Throughout a project, the PM can identify tasks that
have already been completed, the predicted remaining duration for tasks in progress, and any planned changes to future task durations. The result will be an always
updated schedule which, when displayed against the original project timeline, will provide a visual way of comparing planned with actual progress.

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