Critical Path Method grew out of a 1956 DuPont and Remington Rand effort to schedule engineering and construction projects.

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"Critical Path Method grew out of a 1956 DuPont and Remington Rand effort to schedule engineering and construction projects."

The original developers describe CPM as emerging from work begun in December 1956 to solve scheduling and implementation problems in engineering and construction.

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Source title Origins of CPM - a Personal History

Source authors James E. Kelley; Morgan R. Walker; John S. Sayer

Source year 1989

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