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Definition
Longest sequence of activities in a project plan which must be completed on time for the project to complete on due date. An activity on the critical path cannot be started until its predecessor activity is complete; if it is delayed for a day, the entire project will be delayed for a day unless the activity following the delayed activity is completed a day earlier.
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critical path is in the Project Management subject.
critical path appears in the definitions of the following terms: slack, critical path analysis (CPA), program evaluation and review technique (PERT) chart, criticality index, operations research (OR), critical path method (CPM), critical path methodology (CPM) and program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
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