Critical Path Method Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Critical Path Method Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Critical Path Method related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Critical Path Method specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Critical Path Method Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Critical Path Method improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What is your plan to develop, retrain and retain a workforce with the right skills, values and behaviours in sufficient numbers and in the right locations to deliver your vision for transformed care?
   
   

2. What selective discovery along a critical path will create an early perception of adverse verdict risk by the opponent and create leverage at an inflection point for an early successful resolution?
   
   

3. What enables you to determine the earliest and latest times for each of the events and activities and thereby helps in the identification of the critical path?
   
   

4. When mapping discrete risk events to activities in the schedule does the impact reflect the impact on the activity or activities or the overall critical path?
   
   

5. What are your present strengths and weaknesses in terms of experience, expertise, contacts, resources that will help you to launch your business?
   
   

6. How many parallel critical or near critical paths are there in the task schedule and how great are the interdependencies between parallel paths?
   
   

7. Are procurement activities on your project incorporated into overall detailed planning of project implementation, as the critical path method?
   
   

8. Has sufficient attention been given to critical paths and practical constraints of the time needed for effective implementation?
   
   

9. Are the timing constraints sufficient for the placer to identify and work on the true critical paths in the design?
   
   

10. Do you feel that a knowledge of politics, and or economics is necessary to make major contributions to humanity?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Critical Path Method book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Critical Path Method self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Critical Path Method Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Critical Path Method areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Critical Path Method Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Critical Path Method projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Critical Path Method Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Critical Path Method project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Performance Assessment: What are you doing specifically to develop the leaders around you?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: Do all staff have the necessary authority and resources to deliver what is expected of them?
   
   

3. Procurement Audit: Was the outcome of the award process properly reached and communicated?
   
   

4. Risk Management Plan: Is the technology to be built new to your organization?
   
   

5. Change Management Plan: Who should be involved in developing a change management strategy?
   
   

6. WBS Dictionary: Are work packages reasonably short in time duration or do they have adequate objective indicators/milestones to minimize subjectivity of the in process work evaluation?
   
   

7. Cost Management Plan: Are the Critical Path Method project team members located locally to the users/stakeholders?
   
   

8. Project Performance Report: To what degree is the team cognizant of small wins to be celebrated along the way?
   
   

9. Risk Management Plan: People risk -are people with appropriate skills available to help complete the Critical Path Method project?
   
   

10. Project Schedule: Is Critical Path Method project work proceeding in accordance with the original Critical Path Method project schedule?


 
Step-by-step and complete Critical Path Method Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Critical Path Method project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Critical Path Method project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Critical Path Method project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Critical Path Method project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Critical Path Method project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Critical Path Method project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Critical Path Method project with this in-depth Critical Path Method Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Critical Path Method projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Critical Path Method and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Critical Path Method investments work better.

This Critical Path Method All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.