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From: Jpstewar on 11 Jan 2010 08:26
I note that there's a setting in Project that says, "Tasks are critical if
slack is less than or equal to 0" by default. Why would you ever want to
change this?
From: Doctor Dave on 11 Jan 2010 08:41
You might work for an organisation where senior management want
forewarning of tasks that may become critical before they do so for
example so that they can take pre-emptive action.

Jpstewar wrote:
> I note that there's a setting in Project that says, "Tasks are critical if
> slack is less than or equal to 0" by default. Why would you ever want to
> change this?
From: Jim Aksel on 11 Jan 2010 15:29
In my world, we have contractual requirements to provide a "Near Critical
Path" showing all those tasks with 5 days or less of Total Slack. By
definintion this includes the critical path (Total Slack=0).
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"Doctor Dave" wrote:

> You might work for an organisation where senior management want
> forewarning of tasks that may become critical before they do so for
> example so that they can take pre-emptive action.
>
> Jpstewar wrote:
> > I note that there's a setting in Project that says, "Tasks are critical if
> > slack is less than or equal to 0" by default. Why would you ever want to
> > change this?
> .
>
From: Trevor Rabey on 11 Jan 2010 10:30
It is one thing to know which tasks are critical now, but those non-critical
tasks which don't have much float (slack) will be the next most likely to
become critical if things change (they will). Having only a bit of float is
not much less critical than having no float at all.
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"Jpstewar" <Jpstewar(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I note that there's a setting in Project that says, "Tasks are critical if
> slack is less than or equal to 0" by default. Why would you ever want to
> change this?


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