Thanks so much - part of my critical path would not display and it was driving me mad; it was due to the special calendar that I'd created for that part of the project period. I'd beene battling with this for a good few hours before I watched your tutorial - much appreciated.
Yes I’ve been there, it took a while to figure out the reasons. Every day I’m still learning new nuances. I thing with this program and others you roll with some by figuring out work arounds and learning what not to do even though the program seems to encourage it.
Hi Mr. Tom, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise in MS Project and CPM. I learned a lot and now my understanding of this is getting deeper and deeper. God Bless sir
Excellent video! Great troubleshooting tips. This still didn't fix my problem, but I learned a few things. I found out that one more way your critical path can disappear is if it goes through a task that's "inactivated". I have RISK line items that I inactivate or activate depending on whether they need to be deployed and this unfortunately eliminates the critical path. Shoot.
@@TomStephensontrainingyes sir. My boss won’t accept a project schedule with any predecessors or successors un-linked. All were linked and auto scheduled to soonest possible. Using what I learned in your video I traced back to the point the critical path dropped off and it was an inactive “risk” line item.
I just started a trial period on MS Project and mine doesn't like this at all. The top tool bar is missing completely. It looks very simplified down to just task lists in the grid, board, timeline and chart views. There is no plethora of tools and no excel chart to inform the timeline and critical path the way you're showing here. Do you know the reason?? Did they completely change the design of MS Project recently?
thanks for the clear explanation. one question, for the tasks with 100% progress, can it be still shown as critical task while previously it was (as planned).
Hi Daniel if It is done it won’t show critical. If it is partially done even 99 percent it will still show critical. Once done it cant move therefore not critical
@@TomStephensontraining hi tom, i have an issue where as soon as i put any percentage on a critical task, the predecessor shows no longer critical. The link is a FS -2days so the successor starts before the predecessor ends. I know i have something setup wrong but i cannot figure it out. I have no constraints assigned to the tasks. Any advise would be greatly appreciated please.
Im not sure where you are looking but if you have a baseline and anything changes it will affect any variable costs by either adding or lowering the total cost. You should then see the variance on the cost sheet
Likely you have done everything finish to start so everything is on the critical path. If something’s are concurrent and have different durations then some will be blue, non critical.
Hi Tom, I am working on a project on P6, and there is quite a lot of float in it. Client wants to see critical path, I am not sure how to generate critical path if the float is above 0, can you point me in the right direction please? Thanks
There is always a critical path. Other thing may have float but the longest path to complete is the critical path. P6 msproject does not mater just make sure everything is connected and the logic Is how you would like to build it
@@TomStephensontraining Ty for your reply. Yeah I figured it out a long time ago, still appreciate your reply. I have been working quite a lot in P6 and I love it.
Hi Antony, estimating durations is a big topic that requires education, experience, collaboration. There is data that can be purchased through RS Means and others, but really I would such taking some project management, site management and estimating courses and combining that with real world experience coupled with ongoing accurate historical data which MS Project will provide you with when used properly. Also, things always take more time then you expect so have a management reserve and a contingency reserve. Checkout my Site Management playlist for assistance. Hope that helps.
Thanks so much - part of my critical path would not display and it was driving me mad; it was due to the special calendar that I'd created for that part of the project period. I'd beene battling with this for a good few hours before I watched your tutorial - much appreciated.
Yes I’ve been there, it took a while to figure out the reasons. Every day I’m still learning new nuances. I thing with this program and others you roll with some by figuring out work arounds and learning what not to do even though the program seems to encourage it.
You made my day. A separate task calender made my critical path disappear prior to the task.
Great, yes it’s frustrating if you don’t know why it does these things. Happy that I was able to help you!
Hi Mr. Tom, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise in MS Project and CPM. I learned a lot and now my understanding of this is getting deeper and deeper. God Bless sir
Thanks so much Augusto, all the best!
Excellent video! Great troubleshooting tips. This still didn't fix my problem, but I learned a few things. I found out that one more way your critical path can disappear is if it goes through a task that's "inactivated". I have RISK line items that I inactivate or activate depending on whether they need to be deployed and this unfortunately eliminates the critical path. Shoot.
Did you try linking the predecessor to the the successor of the inactive activity Rich. Just curious now. Thanks for the kind words
@@TomStephensontrainingyes sir. My boss won’t accept a project schedule with any predecessors or successors un-linked. All were linked and auto scheduled to soonest possible. Using what I learned in your video I traced back to the point the critical path dropped off and it was an inactive “risk” line item.
Thank you very much again Prof.
You’re welcome Jacob, thanks for watching the videos and leaving comments. Very appreciated
I just started a trial period on MS Project and mine doesn't like this at all. The top tool bar is missing completely. It looks very simplified down to just task lists in the grid, board, timeline and chart views. There is no plethora of tools and no excel chart to inform the timeline and critical path the way you're showing here. Do you know the reason?? Did they completely change the design of MS Project recently?
Were you able to figure it out Bryon?
thanks for the clear explanation. one question, for the tasks with 100% progress, can it be still shown as critical task while previously it was (as planned).
Hi Daniel if It is done it won’t show critical. If it is partially done even 99 percent it will still show critical. Once done it cant move therefore not critical
Thanks for watching
@@TomStephensontraining thanks for the explanation!
@@TomStephensontraining hi tom, i have an issue where as soon as i put any percentage on a critical task, the predecessor shows no longer critical. The link is a FS -2days so the successor starts before the predecessor ends. I know i have something setup wrong but i cannot figure it out. I have no constraints assigned to the tasks. Any advise would be greatly appreciated please.
Hi Tom ..
On Ms Project 2016, Baseline Cost and Total Contract same Price .. but why on Cost not same, has different Price. Thank you
Im not sure where you are looking but if you have a baseline and anything changes it will affect any variable costs by either adding or lowering the total cost. You should then see the variance on the cost sheet
Hii,I created a gant chart and network diagram and I don’t know why every single action is red ,can you please help me?
Likely you have done everything finish to start so everything is on the critical path. If something’s are concurrent and have different durations then some will be blue, non critical.
Hi Tom, I am working on a project on P6, and there is quite a lot of float in it. Client wants to see critical path, I am not sure how to generate critical path if the float is above 0, can you point me in the right direction please? Thanks
There is always a critical path. Other thing may have float but the longest path to complete is the critical path. P6 msproject does not mater just make sure everything is connected and the logic Is how you would like to build it
@@TomStephensontraining Ty for your reply. Yeah I figured it out a long time ago, still appreciate your reply. I have been working quite a lot in P6 and I love it.
Prof, how to calculate manpower which need in a project and implement it to ms project
Hi Antony, estimating durations is a big topic that requires education, experience, collaboration. There is data that can be purchased through RS Means and others, but really I would such taking some project management, site management and estimating courses and combining that with real world experience coupled with ongoing accurate historical data which MS Project will provide you with when used properly. Also, things always take more time then you expect so have a management reserve and a contingency reserve. Checkout my Site Management playlist for assistance. Hope that helps.
Thank you sir
Thanks for watching
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Thanks!