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Critical paths

Edna has attended:
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by - delegate Edna [1 post] (2007 Jul 18 Wed, 16:24) Reply

How do i interpret what my critical path is?

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RE: Critical paths

by - trainer Anthony gold contributer [113 posts] (2007 Jul 18 Wed, 16:33) Reply

Hi Edna. Essentially the critical path (the red path in the Tracking Gantt view) is the longest time between project start and end date. Where there is a certain amount of "float", previous tasks can be rescheduled to eat into this without affecting the end date, while rescheduling those tasks with constraints and/or linked together without any float will impact on the end date. These tasks, then, form the critical path. Rescheduling them, reschedules your end date.

Hope this helps,

Anthony

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