Long duration Task that I don't want to be on the critical path

[rosebud86]

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?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi rosebud,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

The simplest way is to enter a Start date 1 minute after the start date of the project. If you project starts at 08:00, just enter the date followed by 08:01. On the other hand, why worry? Alternatively, just create a hammock starting at 08:01. Please see FAQ Item: 19. Hammock Tasks.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP
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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?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

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.

 

[Rod Gill]

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

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