Critical path

Part of project management requires the determination of the critical path. So what is that? We’ll take a simple example from the kitchen. This simple meal comprises grilled steak with vegetables and mash. The cook can only do one thing at a time, the meal needs to be ready as quickly as possible and all three components of the meal are to be ready for serving at the same time (no hot tray here!). The question is which is the sequence of the following processes which will determine the total time from start to finish.   The first thing we need…