criticalpath - An Implementation of the Critical Path Method
An R implementation of the Critical Path Method (CPM). CPM
is a method used to estimate the minimum project duration and
determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical
network paths within the schedule model. The flexibility is in
terms of early start, early finish, late start, late finish,
total float and free float. Beside, it permits to quantify the
complexity of network diagram through the analysis of
topological indicators. Finally, it permits to change the
activities duration to perform what-if scenario analysis. The
package was built based on following references: To make
topological sorting and other graph operation, we use Csardi,
G. & Nepusz, T. (2005)
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221995787_The_Igraph_Software_Package_for_Complex_Network_Research>;
For schedule concept, the reference was Project Management
Institute (2017)
<https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok>;
For standards terms, we use Project Management Institute (2017)
<https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/lexicon>; For
algorithms on Critical Path Method development, we use
Vanhoucke, M. (2013) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40438-2> and
Vanhoucke, M. (2014) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04331-9>; And,
finally, for topological definitions, we use Vanhoucke, M.
(2009) <doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1014-1>.