As you enter particular tasks and associate them with resources, the software determines those tasks that are critical to timely completion of the project and assigns them to a "critical path." ...

In the project management world, critical tasks are the jobs your team must complete to finish a project. The critical path is the sequence of critical tasks, identifying which order to complete ...

Not everyone wants to be a project manager but Microsoft wants to make it less painful when team task management needs to get more formal.