Sequence · The critical chain · Element
The path
Which sequence determines the date.
The part
What it is
The longest chain of dependent items including the waiting, which is what most schedules omit.
Frequently shorter in work and longer in elapsed time than people expect, because it is dominated by external items.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the critical chain
The slack
How much room the other paths have.
LearnThe recheck
When the chain was last recalculated.
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