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The Critical Path Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation The Critical Path Calculation and Analysis Critical path is a vital aspect of project management that managers must understand to execute their projects as designed. Project managers use critical paths to identify the sequence of tasks that could lead to the delay of an entire project if overdue. To calculate the critical path, one must consider two parts. The first part is the forward pass which explores the earliest start times (ES) relative to the finish times (EF) for every activity (Kogon & Blakemore, 2024). To determine EF, one adds the duration of each activity to the ES. Thus, EF+ ES+ t (activity duration). The second part of a critical path is the backward pass. To calculate the backward pass, one determines the latest start times (LS) and the finish times (LF) of the activities (Vanhoucke, 2013). Notably, the LF of a last activity equals its EF. Hence, LF- t (activity duration) Concept Perspectives There concept of critical path is important for a range of reasons. Primari...