BSa703-Hitting the Learning outcomes. Learning outcome 3.2

 3.2 Explore methods for the critical analysis of project needs and research and implement proposed solutions  

https://www.smartsheet.com/critical-path-method

1. Identifies the Most Important Tasks:  First, it clearly identifies the tasks that you will have to closely manage. If any of the tasks on the critical path take more time than their estimated durations, start later than planned, or finish later than planned, then your whole project will be affected. 
2. Helps Reduce Timelines: Secondly, “if, after the initial analysis predicts a completion time, there is interest in completing the project in a shorter time frame, it is clear which task or tasks are candidates for duration reduction,” said Dr. Bennett. When the results from a critical path method are displayed as a bar chart, like a Gantt chart, it is easy to see where the tasks fall in the overall timeframe. You can visualize the critical path activities (they are usually highlighted), as well as task durations and their sequences. This provides a new level of insight into your project’s timeline, giving you more understanding about which task durations you can modify, and which must stay the same. 
3. Compares Planned with Actual: And lastly, Dr. Bennett says the critical path method can also be used to compare planned progress with actual progress. “As the project proceeds, the baseline schedule developed from the initial critical path analysis can be used to track schedule progress.  Throughout a project, a manager can identify tasks that have already been completed, the predicted remaining durations for in-progress tasks, and any planned changes to future task sequences and durations.  The result will be an updated schedule, which, when displayed against the original baseline, will provide a visual means of comparing planned with actual progress.”

For this project, It would be most useful to create a flowchart to analyse our timeline and apply a critical eye to it. 

I will need to research our projects needs and how to implement any solutions I can find for them. 

I will start an evaluation document and will start to critically analyse our project in its entirety. 

It may be beneficial to create a risk analyst sheet