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critical path starting in future
Hello,
On my project when I was updating I discovered that the critical path is starting at a future date, although from now till that future date I also have many activities including the first critical activity's predecessors. Why dont I have any critical activities between now and till that future activity? Isnt critical path supposed to encompass the entire duration of the schedule? |
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No critical path does not necessarily span the entire project. Constraints, lag, lead, calendar changes can all have an effect on critical path.
Complete tasks are not on the critical path. Add the Total Slack field to your view to see the amount of slack before a task becomes critical. The value may be very small. Julie |
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but from today to where i see the critical path starting, there is also a shortest duration isnt it? I am still not clear why from today to the start of future critical date there is no critical path.
can it be because i had assigned percentages to some future activities either 100% or less, where their predecessors was not complete? so in a way i overrode my previous logic of things due to field progress... |
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It's impossible for me to guess without seeing the project file. Projects with multiple network paths will not show all tasks as critical - only those that have zero slack. Did you add the Total Slack field as I suggested? What are the total slack values -- fairly small?
Do you have constraints in the project? Julie |
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i already had the total slack column. the slack values differ much, some are small some are big.
and yes there are constraints for future activites such as i assigned them % values |
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No, sorry. I mean task constraints other than ASAP or task deadlines. Do you have Task Constraints or Task Deadlines set?
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