Training coffee shop employees to work together as a team requires a strategy for teaching smaller skills within the context of the larger operation. The "critical path method," called CPM, is a ...

Large, complex business projects require thousands of separate activities and can cost millions of dollars. With such high stakes, managing these projects poses a challenge to any large organization.

(This material is not covered in Fraser, Bernhardt and Jewkes. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of ...

A-0-A activity-on-arrow - a network diagram convention in which arrows designate activities. A-0-N activity-on-node- a network diagram convention in which nodes designate activities. Activities - ...

The critical path method (CPM) is the scheduling method upon which most new product development schedules are based. It was developed in 1957 by DuPont to assist in managing a series of well-scripted, ...