That's great to hear Justine. There are a huge number of simple explainer videos for core PM concepts on this channel - made for people just like you!

You are very welcome, Jarod. Good luck with your Diploma!

Thank you, Ariana, that’s exactly what I aim to do.

CPM is most often used on large projects and in 'familiar' project types - so construction is a big use-case. There is a managerial overhead to using this tool that smaller projects don't need and cannot easily justify. And single point estimating means that the tool has little to offer to build in schedule uncertainty. So R&D projects with a lot of unknowns tend to use the PERT method instead: What is PERT? - studio.kzfaq.infoi160aaBX7mE/edit

Thank you, David.

Jellisa, thank you. You may also like he articles on our website: onlinepmcourses.com/

Hello Jelisa, I would like to do bachelor of project management too by next year, online classes

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your course.

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your PMP. You may like our PMP resources. This roadmap links to all of our free and paid PMP resources: onlinepmcourses.com/project-management-certification-programs/study-project-management-professional-pmp/

I am here for the CAPM :)

You're very welcome.

Great to hear it - good luck, Aaron!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

MM, hi. I'd say that Project Management is a creative profession. So it is always okay to mix, match and adapt the tools you have to create your own. If you have a good reason to test it out, do so. If the new tool is better for your needs than the old one: use it. Then adapt it when you see an opportunity or a need. Go for it!

Thank you.

Detailed description and examples may be something I'll do in a later video. But, for this one, the clue is in the title 'in under 5 minutes'!

@@Onlinepmcourses keep up the good work👍

@@MyAviram Thank you

Thanks, Heather. Ironically, you misspelled 'word'! Easily done. Impossible to fix once baked into a video, as YT does not permit upload of a replacement video.

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Thank you. Bright and breezy. That's me. Nearly 4 million views and you're the first person to mention this. Sadly almost all of my 400 videos to date have a light background. Just turn the brightness down on your screen when you watch them. Seriously, I am aiming for strong contract between background and any text/graphics, for max clarity on small screens. On a dark background, my choice of colors would be severely limited. So, while I have experimented with other formats, the bright backgrounds are likely to stay.

The video is meant as a briefing, not a detailed tutorial. But, I do see that it would have been helpful.

Edward. The answer is yes... and no. You can have a critical path for a part of a project - like a workstream. That will start at the start of the workstream. That workstream may itself be on the project's critical path - or may be off it. However, the critical path for the project itself - the whole project - starts at the start of the project and ends at the end of the project. That said, it is possible to craft a project plan where the first activity you are due to do is not on the critical path. For example if, in parallel there is another activity that's scheduled to start a day after the first activity, that second activity could be on the critical path. But the path still starts at the project start date. This last point is hard to explain without a picture. But it's also a bit of a contrived case - entirely possible in principle, but unlikely to occur, I suspect, in practice.

@@Onlinepmcourses Lol, as for yes.,. and no. But I understand. Thank you.

@@edwardchirwa1079 :-)

There is no reason. You can use whatever estimating methodology you choose.

The key to the CPM is finding tasks that, if they run late, will delay the final completion. So, if you want a candidate to join your business on a certain day, you can work back to find which parts of the recruitment process could delay this start date. Those are the critical activities, which you need to manage carefully (or create contingency for).

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I'd suggest that we can better use CPA to allocate resources to balance out different routes through the network. Then, you can address the effectiveness of those allocations in providing a level resource profile, by either rescheduling tasks, or re-allocating resources to level them out. What is Resource Levelling? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9x-ac6qsrvJY4U.html

The critical path is not the shortest path. It is the longest path through the network. Therefore there is no (or least) slack. Any delay to any activity on the critical path will affect the end point. So it is critical in the sense that it is the path where the impact of any risks on timelines is greatest.

Indeed.

Thank you. Yes, occasional errors slip in. I apologise.

The Critical Path is the longest route through the network. If any of those tasks is delayed, then the whole project is delayed. If you delay a task on a shorter path, then you may not delay the end of the project.

Thank you - and no, I don't think there is anything wrong with my thyroid.

Well, this channel is all about the information so thank you. So, what changes would you like to see to my presentation style - many of my community find it suits them well?

@@Onlinepmcourses i think it was fine. i understood. perhaps you can include an image of critical path on the gantt chart.

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Yes indeed: Greetings.

I'm sorry to hear that.

This is an early video (4 years old) and I was experimenting. I no longer use this kind of sound effect. However, I must say that a request rather than an instruction would have been more courteous. Next time you have a suggestion for a KZfaqr (most of us know we will never recoup the cost of making our videos - 4-8 hours each, in my case), please think carefully about how you make the request. I welcome feedback, but please don't tell me what to do.

@@Onlinepmcourses yes it felt like an experiment 😀. But the contents are very nice. I have set a reminder to watch some of them each day.

@@Form_Evolve_Invent_India Thank you - glad to have you onboard.

LoL - Sorry to disappoint. No one needs history, but a lot of us find it helpful to learn from it. Context is understanding. If I were you, I'd avoid my video on the Gantt Chart, or you may learn who invented it. And it wasn't Henry Gantt! But, who needs to know?

Thats why the skip button exists buddy

Probably in the wrong field of work if you bitching about something like this

Sorry to hear it.

I'll take 'the content is awesome' - thank you!

you are boring. this guy is great, he isnt boring. just be patient and listen. he explains things clear and concisely. i dont want someone talking too fast!

Maybe. But almost certainly... was a maniac! Invented in 1957.

☹️ Sorry.

Thank you. In reality, CPM is not widely used outside of large-scale projects (because of the cost overhead of setting up the CPM) in disciplines where schedule estimating can have high reliability. The biggest area of use is therefore in the construction industry, where there are large projects, sophisticated and specialized software, and reliable estimation methodologies. Most of the world's project managers (who often have little training and no aspiration to manage big projects) will never need to use CPM. And, in less familiar projects (like R&D), PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) tends to be used because it allows for 3-point estimating that takes better account of uncertainties. My companion video on PERT: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5dmY8SSp76bnXk.html

You're welcome, Ben, thanks.