Long duration Task that I don't want to be on the critical path
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From: rosebud86 on 30 Mar 2010 14:47 How can I have a task that starts on day one and ends at the project completion, but I don't want that task to be on the critical path?
From: Andrew Lavinsky on 30 Mar 2010 15:41 Can't be done, unless you make it a day or two shorter than the overall project. That should not be a major issue, I would think. "rosebud86" wrote: > How can I have a task that starts on day one and ends at the project > completion, but I don't want that task to be on the critical path?
From: Rod Gill on 30 Mar 2010 20:07 I achieved this with a large time critical schedule. I needed to keep tidy up and other follow on tasks off the critical path and have the critical path show for critical areas only. To do this I: 1) Made sure all Tasks were driven by links. Any date constraints were allowed fixed dates, but had to have a note explaining them. 2) Added a milestone 2 weeks later than the last task with a must start on constraint. Now all tasks except the last were non-critical! 3) Added deadlines for all key deliverable milestones. This made those paths critical if no slack and reduced slack to conform with the deadline. This worked brilliantly. In fact I had a view with tasks with deadlines filter applied and the Total Slack column inserted. Total slack for each deliverable was copied to Excel for each week so the trend on total slack could be clearly seen. Tasks with rapidly reducing total slack got more resources, tasks with increasing total slack got less. Management were all over this report like a rash every Monday! -- Rod Gill Microsoft MVP for Project - http://www.project-systems.co.nz Author of the only book on Project VBA, see: http://www.projectvbabook.com "rosebud86" <rosebud86(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1CBCFBEF-A042-4EDA-B2E7-555117BE5C53(a)microsoft.com... > How can I have a task that starts on day one and ends at the project > completion, but I don't want that task to be on the critical path? > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 4986 (20100330) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4986 (20100330) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
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