ms+project+2003+training - Task scheduling - best practises

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Fri 19 Jan 2007, 09:37 Delegate David said...

David has attended:
Project Intro Intermediate course

Task scheduling - best practises

Hi

Do you have any best practises for categorising scheduling - key pointers for identifying if the task should be:
* finish to start
* start to start
* finish to finish
* start to finish

Cheers

David

Thu 25 Jan 2007, 13:32 Trainer Garry said...

RE: Task scheduling - best practises

Each Project is really taken on its merit
what is a good practice for 1 is bad for another

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MS Project tip:

Keep constraining dates to a minimum

As far as possible avoid fixing the dates of your tasks. For example try to steer of clear dragging task bars in the Gantt chart to move them on the timeline or entering dates directly into the Start / Finish fields.

Date constraints such as these limit Microsoft Project's ability to automatically adjust your project whenever you add, remove or modify the duration of your tasks. Instead use the logic in your task dependencies that link your tasks to enable Project to calculate the start and finish dates for you.

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