 The Graphical Path Method (GPM) (formerly known as the ‘Graphical Planning Method’) was originally developed from 2004-2006 by Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon, current Chairman of the Project Management Institute College of Scheduling (PMICOS), and was first presented at the PMICOS 2008 annual conference.It was created as an alternative to the Critical Path Method (CPM) and was designed as a graphical tool to encourage an engaging, planning-centric experience for project stakeholders.To create a GPM schedule, users draw and place objects – such as activities, milestones, and benchmarks – on a time-scaled canvas.