Most schedulers are familiar with the term total float. But what about free float? Free float is a helpful tool for measuring the likelihood of a predecessor activity affecting other linked successor activities. Let’s take a look at how to utilize both free float and total float. The Gantt chart is a valuable scheduling tool. […]
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Primavera P6 – Displaying Total Float of Activities on the Gantt Chart
It’s not uncommon that you have to consider options for delaying activities to move resources to, possibly, “crash” a critical path activity. Most likely, this request would come as a result
Microsoft Project: Displaying the Total Float (Slack) of Tasks on the Gantt Chart
To better understand the total float of tasks in your schedule, it’s often very useful to display these on the Gantt chart. A Gantt chart view of total slack may complement or even provide more insight than a tabulated list of values.
Primavera P6: Critical, or not so Critical?
Many scheduling guidelines including the PMI’s PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), use the term “near critical’ to describe activities in a schedule that are within a few days of joining the critical path; that is to say they only have a few days of Total Float.