The Combination of Critical Path Method and Online Project Management Tool to Improve Accuracy of Project Schedule

Abstract

Project Management is a very important process in governing project activities. Project leader serves as key role to manage project team members, resources, workloads, as well as project schedule or timelines. Moreover, excellent in managing both human resource and time management is the key role for a successful project. Each member of a project team, or in this case a study team has their own roles based on expertise and portion of workload. But, realization of the activities is often vulnerable to timeliness of work completion, especially for task which has dependency to other tasks. task B can not be done if the task A has not been fulfilled, while the C task can be completed when task A and B have been completed. The interrelationship between activities can trigger inaccuracy of project schedule in case one or more aspects are not met. Critical Path Method (CPM) is a technique to help analyzing activities to better predict overall project duration. This method can be used in combination with an online project-based management media to allow team member to carry out and deliver their tasks as targeted regardless time and place.