Critical Path Method Applied to the Multi Project Management Environment

This paper highlights the results of the research carried out in case of multi project management in order to build and manage the master plan for achieving the completion of the target milestones. One of the objectives of this research was to determine the procedure to facilitate the multi project management, to determine the interrelationships, the free floats and total floats and in the resulted Master Plan the critical and longest paths. A secondary objective was to define the working procedures for updating with the actual status of the activities and a continously monitoring of the progress. The main result of our original research is represented by the building of an working environment able to configure multi project cross over reports and thus, gaining access to structured and summarized information for monitoring the progress of works and reaching the project's milestones. The result of our study could be a versatile tool for end users, offering the possibility to to build a project management system able to offer a summarized Master Plan and to conduct a Multiple Critical Paths Analysis.