Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Rule
The critical path is your minimum duration — no amount…
Identify the critical path (longest chain of dependent tasks) as the minimum project duration, recognizing that no amount of parallelization or additional resources can compress completion time below this constraint.
1 lessonproject-managementcritical-pathconstraints
Rule
Dependency test for adjacent steps — does step B require…
For each pair of adjacent workflow steps, ask 'Does step B require the completed output of step A?' - if no, the steps can run in parallel; if yes, they must be sequential.
1 lessonworkflow-optimizationdependency-analysisparallelization