You’ve probably heard of CPM Scheduling at some point. While you may feel like you don’t need to concern yourself with it, there’s decent likelihood that you’ll be up to your armpits in the Critical Path Method once that big project gets rolling. Yes,Primavera P6 does run all sorts of fancy algorithms when you hit F9 – but having at least a fundamental knowledge of how CPM Scheduling works is going to help you go far as a planner/scheduler.
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