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Project Start Date

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Reply Mon 19 Apr 2010, 15:25Delegate Andrew said...

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Project Advanced course

Project Start Date

How do I adjust the project start date?

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Reply Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:03Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Project Start Date

Hi Andrew

Thank you for your question. There are two approaches here and each has a different result.

Using Project > Project information will change the start of the plan. Constraints apply as normal which means that delaying the start of the project will consume like, whilst moving the date earlier in the schedule will likely increase slack.

Alternatively you can turn on the Analysis Toolbar
(View > Toolbars > Analysis) and click Adjust Date.
Using this feature to set the start date moves tasks AND constraints. This means constraint dates change to maintain the amount of slack in the plan.

I hope this helps - do let us know if you have any further questions.

Kind regards,

Kind regards,
Andrew

Tue 27 Apr 2010: Automatically marked as resolved.

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Keep constraining dates to a minimum

As far as possible avoid fixing the dates of your tasks. For example try to steer of clear dragging task bars in the Gantt chart to move them on the timeline or entering dates directly into the Start / Finish fields.

Date constraints such as these limit Microsoft Project's ability to automatically adjust your project whenever you add, remove or modify the duration of your tasks. Instead use the logic in your task dependencies that link your tasks to enable Project to calculate the start and finish dates for you.

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