| Article ID: | iaor20053290 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
| Journal: | INFORMS Transactions on Education |
| Authors: | Seal Kala C. |
| Keywords: | education in OR, spreadsheets |
This paper describes the implementation of the traditional PERT/CPM algorithm for finding the critical path in a project network in a spreadsheet. The problem is of importance due to the recent shift of attention to using the spreadsheet environment as a vehicle for delivering MS/OR techniques to end-users.