Mark:
Seems to me that would be the "actual critical path" on complete tasks,
versus the "baseline critical path," which would be a bit more difficult to
dig up without an actual copy of the plan prior to execution. Gets me to
thinking what one would do with critical path variance information.
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When I show the critical tasks, why does it only show me tasks in the
future. How can I see which tasks were on the critical path in the
past? Does it only consider tasks which are not 100% complete for the
critical path and how does it determine which date it will use as the
point for the calculating the forward critical path? Any help would
be appreciated. I am using MS Project 2003.
If a task has been completed, it is no longer on the critical path.
Only those tasks in progress or yet to be started will show in a CP
view. It uses the status date if supplied (Project>Project
Information) or current date if not.
A way to see critical path historically is to add two columns to your
view: Free Slack and Total Slack. Free slack indicates the amount of
slack before that task completion impacts the successor task. Total
slack indicates the amount of slack before that task impacts the
finish date of the project. Where both those values are 0, that task
is or was on the critical path.
It helps if you save a baseline.
Mark
