Project Schedule - Critical Path Example When planning a project, the critical path is one of the most important concepts to understand and implement. The critical path is a chain of linked tasks that directly affects the project finish date. If any task on the critical path is late, the whole project is late. The critical path is a series of tasks (or sometimes only a single task) that controls the calculated start or finish date of the project. Read The ABCs of the Critical Path Method and in one page or less give an example of a project that could have a critical path. Define the steps that must be completed in sequence and create the critical path. Use Project Libre to create the plan and show the critical path based on the dependencies. Create a pdf file of the plan with the critical path and upload the document to the course site