CAN A CRITICAL PATH CHANGE DURING THE COURSE OF A PERIOD?
The critical path of a project will not remain static throughout its life, it can change during the course of project completion. Unforeseen circ*mstances sometimes may cause estimated duration of one or more activities to change. Due to variation in time duration of the project activities, if some activities take more or less time than their expected time, this may render some of the non-critical activities as critical and vice versa. Hence a non-critical path may become a critical path or alternatively a critical path may become non-critical. For this reason, the project leader is required to closely monitor the project's activities by comparing the planned progress to the actual progress. ...
