We have seen on all our news feeds how inflation is at a 40-year high. It was the early 1980s when the U.S. experienced inflation at the rates we have now, peaking in April 1980 at 14.86%. Did inflation and all the trouble that came with it contribute to the development and wild success of critical path method scheduling software programs in the early 1980s?
I can't say with certainty. I will only state that the value of a tool is evident when a superintendent can use it to complete a 36-month project in only 30 months, or avoid a year's delay, or accelerate completion, at a time when material and labor price escalation can eat up 20% or more of a project budget.