Network Diagram View in Microsoft Project

Another commonly used diagram in project management is what's called the network diagram. Basically a network diagram shows all the relationships between tasks. More importantly, the network diagram shows what is called 'Critical Path' of a project. It is called the critical path because any changes to any of the tasks on the critical path affect the outcome of the project. If a task on the critical path takes longer than expected, the entire project will be late because of it. A shrunken view of the network diagram for our small project is shown below: