Calculation of Free Slack in MS Project 2000

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Bo Johnsen 👤 Member for 20 years 4 months
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Brian Ultican 👤 Member for 19 years

I just tried this network in Project 2007 and it works as expected. FS-1 produces free and total slack of 6 days on A

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Paul Harris 👤 Member for 25 years 2 months

All the schedule tools have problems.



MSP is simple to start with but when one gets into complex schedules such as progressing resourced schedules it gets very hard in MSP and I can do things four time quicker in other products.



It is a case of selecting the most appropriate tool for the job. If you are creating simple projects that you are not progressing then MSP is fine, but it is not the tool for complex schedules.



Paul E Harris

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Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting

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Bo Johnsen 👤 Member for 20 years 4 months

Brad,



MS certainly has a lots of bugs and it is not the best planning programme, we all know that. However, it is not totally full of s... and none of the other planning programmes (and I’ve tested a "few")is that user friendly as MS Project. Probably the reason why it is still utilized by Tom, Dick & Harry, but not that much of specialized people (eg. construction planners).



Anyway, tried the same as you ("FS-1"), just in Candy and Pertmaster. Didn’t get any errors in those, ie. correctly calculated free slack. Another bug in MS as you stated.



Thanks,



Bo

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