Critical Path - setting the last activity that finishes

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Zubaer Shariff 👤 Member for 22 years 4 months

Mr. Naveen,

I think the bigger the schedule the more important critical becomes to control teh project. If you are using Primavera, the size of schdule is not of much importance.

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Naveen Subbaiah 👤 Member for 21 years 5 months

Ron,



I stopped reading the paper when it said its for normal sized schedules of 500 activities & over a limited period of one month. Most of the schedules that we deal with are more than 5000 to 10,000 activities. So how practical is to deal with schedules of this size when I want to determine what was the critical path ?



Regards

Naveen

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Zubaer Shariff 👤 Member for 22 years 4 months

I think there is another quick fix to this probelm.

Just create a Mandatory Contraint on activity on which you want the ctirical path to stop. All activities after this activity will have a float based on thier successors.

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smithie johnny 👤 Member for 18 years 1 month

Ronald



I can’t thank you enough.



1) The answer was spot on and simple to implement.

2) The response time was amazing. I think only an hour lapsed.

3) In addition to resolving my question your paper gave me a lot better understanding on CPM and Longest Path.



Thank you again.

Regards

J

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Ronald,



That was gr8,



All printed, read and glued to.......



This is something, which u can force the contractor to do, if u r working from a client side.



But, if u r from contractor side, then client will never accept these dummy activities, as these activities to be removed later on, will act as a float and client may be object to add these activities.



neway, gr8 paper.



:-)



Rav

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Charleston-Joseph Orbe 👤 Member for 20 years 11 months

Thanks Ron,



Another ammo to bark planning jockeys.



Actually, bright ideas to promote the fraternity of planning engineers.



I copied all.


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