Microsoft Project 2021 From Beginners to Advanced - The Critical Path

The video tutorial explains the concept of the critical path in project management, highlighting its importance as the longest sequence of tasks that can affect the project finish date. It demonstrates how to view critical tasks using a Gantt chart and discusses the concept of slack, which is the amount of time a task can be delayed without affecting the project. The tutorial also covers how to add a slack column to task tables and the impact of modifying task durations on the critical path. Finally, it shows how to filter and view only critical tasks.

What is slack, and how does it relate to tasks on the critical path?

How can you filter to see only the critical tasks in a project?