MSP: Elapsed total float ignored - even when increasing threshold for critical tasks

Please see attached. What is going on here? Bug?

Many thanks

Kind regards,

Henrik

Tom Boyle 👤 Member for 19 years 6 months

Mon, 2018-08-20 14:35 · Permalink

Henrik, glad you got it sorted.

Henrik I 👤 Member for 7 years 9 months

Sat, 2018-08-18 18:59 · Permalink

Many thanks Tom! Brilliant :-)

I should have thought of that.

Tom Boyle 👤 Member for 19 years 6 months

Fri, 2018-08-17 17:28 · Permalink

No bugs.

Assuming you've left the project's "hours per day" at the default value of 8, then your critical slack threshold of 6 days is 6x8=48 hours.
On the two tasks selected, the Total Slack is 2.63 elapsed days x 24 hours per elapsed day = 63.12 hours.
Since 63.12 > 48, the two tasks are not Critical.
For these tasks to show as Critical, you would need to increase the critical threshold from 6 days to 8 days (i.e. 64 hours).

In this case, your true Critical Path might be difficult to discern without tracing the driving logic.

Good luck, tom

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