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Can MSP calculate Total slack / criticality arising from SS relationships?

By Gary Whitehead
Created 9 Jan 2013 - 13:14
Submitted by Gary Whitehead on Wed, 2013-01-09 13:14

I'm reviewing an MSP programme for a colleague. He is concerned that he can't see a critical path running through the project schedule.

The "critical" filter shows the back end of the path, but not any activities upstream of a critical SS + lag relationship

I think this is because MSP is calulcating total slack (aka float) as finish slack, rather than finish or start slack, whichever is lower.

Is there a setting I can change, so that it will take start slack into account for criticality?

 

Obviously, I can suggest that he replaces the Start lag with an activity, and link them with FS to get around the problem, but I also want to give him the option of a settings solution, if one exists.

 

The project was created in MSP 2010, but I am using MSP 2003 to review it.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

G

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