CIMA E2 Syllabus C. Managing projects - Critical Pathway - Notes ^{8 / 16}

the chain of activities whose times determine the overall duration of the project. 

Using our ‘Example Above’ (EA), the critical pathway will be ACFH.

Steps to finding the critical pathway:

1. Find the final event where EET = LET (Event 7)

2. Find the event series that leads up to this final event where EET = LET (in all of the events).

   (Event 1 - 2 - 4 - 6- 7)

3. Find the activities that follow these events, this is the critical pathway. (A - C - F - H)

   The total of the durations of these activities will be the duration of the critical pathway.

   This is the critical pathway. It is the pathway where there is no float/slack.