My boss's critical task is not a 'Critical task' in MS Project

: I have a very important task that my boss thinks is critical to the project outcome, and it is not showing up as red. How can I make it critical?

A: A bit of history reveals that project management of a sort has been around since humans began thinking. I'm sure the pyramids had a project manager to mastermind the completion of the critical tasks. (Whether they were produced within cost is debatable, though they seem to have been finished on time!) The discipline of what is generally known as Network Analysis began in the early 1950s in Europe, with the development of Critical Path Method and project network techniques, as well as others. In the United States, with the development of the Polaris missile system evolved the technique called Program Evaluation and Review Technique or PERT.

These tools allowed a project manager to define a series of tasks that were essential for achieving the product, link the tasks in a logical pattern to form a network, and analyze individual task timings to calculate the critical path to achieve an end date. Thus, Network Analysis is the core technique of all modern project management practices, and working with Microsoft Project is no exception.

Refer the following article for continuation of this article: Defining Critical