Early History of Critical Path Method

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Schedulosophy recommends Management of the Hanford Engineer Works in World War II by Harry Thayer. The subtitle of this book is "How the Corps, DuPont and the Metallurgical Laboratory fast tracked the original plutonium works."

Beginning on page 66 is a section titled, "DuPont's Invention of the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Their Use of it at Hanford." It includes a chronology of the period immediately preceding the early stages of CPM development between September 1939 and January 1941. This account relates that CPM had been developed to its final stage by October 1943.

This 224 page paperback was published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in March 1996.

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