Redundant Depencies

[Sinister]

I am receiving schedules that have redundant dependencies created. I need to
go through the schedules and find these useless links and delete them. Does
anyone know of a program out there that can scan a MS Project file to find
these and at least let me know where they are so that I may delete them?

Or is there a manual method you can suggest for me to use. Because, this
process is becomming lengthy and mind blowing.

 

[Steve House]

How would the software know which members of a set of links were redundent?
Only you can know that. Project has no knowledge of the nature of the work
and it's the nature of the process that's modeled in the project plan that
determines which tasks should link to which tasks and what the relationships
are. It;'s certainly possible for a given task to have several predecessors
and/or other tasks to have several successors so just the fact that a task
has more than one set of links leading to it or away from it doesn't mean
some of them are redundent.

 

[davegb]

This might be a little easier to do from the Network Diagram.

Hope this helps in your world.

How would the software know which members of a set of links were redundent?
Only you can know that. Project has no knowledge of the nature of the work
and it's the nature of the process that's modeled in the project plan that
determines which tasks should link to which tasks and what the relationships
are. It;'s certainly possible for a given task to have several predecessors
and/or other tasks to have several successors so just the fact that a task
has more than one set of links leading to it or away from it doesn't mean
some of them are redundent.

--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

I am receiving schedules that have redundant dependencies created. I need
to
go through the schedules and find these useless links and delete them.
Does
anyone know of a program out there that can scan a MS Project file to find
these and at least let me know where they are so that I may delete them?

Or is there a manual method you can suggest for me to use. Because, this
process is becomming lengthy and mind blowing.