Question:
I am scheduling a very large construction job in the Petro Chemical industry. It is going to run for approx 2 years. The client has new construction going in (Piping and Equipment) which will be a regular work week. But they also need to have a shutdown for all the tie ins eventually. There was no problems before becuase I had hard dates that certian milestones had to be met by. So from there I could move back from those dates and figure out when certain engineering packages needed to start so that they would be complete on time for the procurment/fab/installations. I gave these engineering packages a mandatory start date and scheduled from there. Now, the client has given me a bunch of different sceinarios that they want run (move the scheduled milestone dates out) and they would like to know what the new start dates would be.
Here is my problem. I gave all the new mileston activities constaints to start on, and removed the constraints for the engineering packages, but when I schedule all the initial activities just start at my data date. How do I schedule the project not using a data date so that it will schedule using the new constraints put in the middle of the schedule?
I hope that made sense...
Thanks in advance
I am scheduling a very large construction job in the Petro Chemical industry. It is going to run for approx 2 years. The client has new construction going in (Piping and Equipment) which will be a regular work week. But they also need to have a shutdown for all the tie ins eventually. There was no problems before becuase I had hard dates that certian milestones had to be met by. So from there I could move back from those dates and figure out when certain engineering packages needed to start so that they would be complete on time for the procurment/fab/installations. I gave these engineering packages a mandatory start date and scheduled from there. Now, the client has given me a bunch of different sceinarios that they want run (move the scheduled milestone dates out) and they would like to know what the new start dates would be.
Here is my problem. I gave all the new mileston activities constaints to start on, and removed the constraints for the engineering packages, but when I schedule all the initial activities just start at my data date. How do I schedule the project not using a data date so that it will schedule using the new constraints put in the middle of the schedule?
I hope that made sense...
Thanks in advance