Maintaining a Continuous Critical Path While Using a 24-Hour Calendar for Relationship Lag

Defining a 24 Hour Calendar for scheduling relationship lag works well to schedule the seven day weekly curing of material. The critical activity definition, however, may require adjustment. If you are not monitoring activity constraints then define critical activities as longest path. Here we look into this more http://ow.ly/JL6V3087oIl

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Emily Foster 👤 Member for 14 years 9 months

hi David,

 

Thakns for the positive feedback. I've added a paragraph just under Figure 2 which incorporates your point and makes it read a little better.

Thanks,

Emily

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David Kelly 👤 Member for 21 years 7 months

I would like to add something to an excellent article.

 

I am a “longest path” fan, and recommend “24 hour calendar” for lag to all of my students. Many of my clients work with several complex activity calendars with variable working hours per day. I would recommend entering the lag in hours, rather than days. All durations in P6 are held in hours, such that if you enter a duration of a lag in days, P6 will multiply the number by a calendar dependent constant and schedule that number of hours, NOT the number of days you entered. Rather than risk an unwelcome multiplication, enter the lag in hours. P6 lets you type “24h” into a duration field even if your current user preference is set to Days.

 

 

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