Planning project deadlines can be tedious, and they’re sometimes hard to determine. One solution to this problem is found through the critical plan method. This method produces a planned schedule for all essential tasks, one after another, to tell you how long a project will take overall. Usually, these tasks will flow from one into another in one smooth path, but sometimes a project will have multiple paths going on at the same time. In this course, we’ll talk about the benefits of using the critical path method, or CPM. We’ll discuss the steps to using CPM, go over how to draw a critical path analysis chart, and cover how to estimate time for tasks.