Project Start Date

Gerry,



I’m a little confused.



The start date signifies the start of the project. The rest of the schedule should be driven by a precedence network. Most, if not all of the activities will have a finish-start relationship, i.e. the next task in the chain will start after the preceding task is complete.



When the first task in your schedule is complete what happens? Does everyone just down tools and hang around or is there something else that happens in the meantime?



If in the unlikely event that nothing else is going to happen, why do you have to start the project on that date?



I can think of a couple of quick workarounds that might help you out, however, from a planning perspective I wouldn’t particularly recommend either of them. It’s just manipulating the scheduling software to show a contrived view of the project.



Option 1

Add soft constraint dates on all the ensuing tasks so they start on the correct dates.



Option 2

Add a lags on all the ensuing tasks so they start on the correct dates.



Regards,



Darren

You don’t need to remove all the links but just the key link.

I don’t think I understand but how about temporarily removing the link?

Gerry , the following should help



using the top toolbar

project

project information

select your project start date

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