Schedule Project Plan

Explanation

The project schedule is established when the planned dates, i.e. Early Start and Early Finish dates, have been determined for all project activities. The dates can be set either manually or through a scheduling calculation.

To manually establish the project schedule, values for early dates and total work days are directly entered for each activity. It is also possible to update early start dates, early finish dates and/or total work days by dragging or moving activity bars in the Gantt chart.

Scheduling calculation can be performed in the Project Scheduler/ Project Gantt to determine the activity start and finish dates. Logical dependencies are created between activities to form an activity network, which is used as input into a scheduling calculation. Scheduling will result in updated activity start and finish dates, and critical activities, i.e. activities with Total Float less than or equal to zero, will be indicated.

Project Scheduler offers two ways to perform the schedule calculation.

Schedule with Start Date: Enter a start date to schedule activities to begin on the project’s start date and calculates the project’s finish date based on the last activity to finish.

Schedule with End Date: Enter a project finish date to calculate the project’s start date. Use this method to determine when a project must start so that it finishes on a specific required date entered.

The scheduling calculation takes the following into account:

To enhance analysis capabilities Project Scheduler offers;

Scheduling considers all the projects that are selected for scheduling. Schedule date (start/finish) provided are taken to schedule calculation. The scheduling calculation is done to the minute. Quick Schedule action command is enabled only for single project.

The selected timescale in the Gantt does not affect the scheduling calculation but is used for display purposes only.Activity network diagram in Gantt is visualized based on early dates.

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