start date is not critical

Dear Planners,

I am establishing a schedule on MS Project 2010, after finishing the schedule I detected that the start date of the project is not critical, it has 35 days float. Eventhough no constraints applied and no open ends exist.

Regards,

Moutaz

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Rangarajan Ramaswamy 👤 Member for 16 years 6 months

Please check the following :-

1. The Project finish date is matching with the schedule finish date

2. If still the start date is showing float it means that somewhere the relation is open or a constrain in the project is driving the CRITICAL activities.

3. You can send the file to me to check for issues.

 

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Patrick Weaver 👤 Member for 25 years 4 months

Possible options (assuming there is a difference between the milestone and the first activities float)

  1. The project start date is defined as a constraint on the first activity not the milestone and the milestone is scheduling from the project calendar start
  2. Different calendars allocated
  3. The first activity is scheduled ‘As late as possible’
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moutaz aldeib 👤 Member for 22 years 5 months

Dear Gary,

Sorry that is what I mean, the first task is successor to the milestone date.

Best,

Moutaz

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Gary Whitehead 👤 Member for 17 years 2 months

the first task should be the sucessor of the start milestone, not predecessor

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moutaz aldeib 👤 Member for 22 years 5 months

Yes, Gary it is a milestone and the first task is the predecessor of this milestone.

Regards,

Moutaz

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Gary Whitehead 👤 Member for 17 years 2 months

when you say start date is not critical, do you mean start milestone?

 

If so, check the first task that is on your critical path has a predeccesor of the start milestone

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