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When your project plan has a hundred different activities happening simultaneously and some very complicated dependencies, it must be very difficult to judge exactly how behind you are.
The important tasks are those on the critical path i.e. the sequence of tasks which define the shortest completion period for the project. Only a delay to a critical path task delays the project. There will be a lot of activities that can slip without delaying the overall date as other key activities will not be dependent on them. The program will be written into a software package which will work out the critical path and if the current status of all activities will impact the overall completion date.