Click Here to view the screen and audio capture of my presentation at the 2020 Construction CPM Conference. Fred Plotnick (the Conference organizer) is kind enough to host the content on his server.
The presentation recaps and expands on my blog entry on the same subject: Avoid Out-of-Sequence Progress in Microsoft Project 2010-2016.
Click Here to view the screen and audio capture of my presentation (on BPC Logic Filter) at the 2019 Construction CPM Conference. Fred Plotnick (the Conference organizer) is kind enough to host the content on his server.
Most of this will be familiar to those who’ve already seen one of my presentations on BPC Logic Filter, but the questions and answers beginning at about minute 59:00 are new.
I’ve been using the JUMP buttons on the task logic inspector windows – a lot. These are great complements to the rest of BPC Logic Filter.
[Dec’20: Here’s a different demo of the Limited Logic Inspector – essentially the same inspection and jumping functionality, but without the extra logic analysis.]
I finally got around to making a video of BPC Logic Filter’s Drag calculation in action.
In the presence of Deadlines, Constraints, variable Calendars, and resource leveling, Total Slack becomes unreliable as an indicator of the Critical Path (or of nearness to the Critical Path). In addition, many projects include Key Completion Milestones that occur long before the final scheduled activity of the project, so a Longest-Path approach doesn’t apply. For these projects, I use the Task Logic Tracer to find the Driving Path and Near-Driving Paths of each Key Completion Milestone.
In the presence of Deadlines, Constraints, variable Calendars, and resource leveling, Total Slack becomes unreliable as an indicator of the Critical Path (or of nearness to the Critical Path). For projects where the project completion is designated by the last task in the schedule, I use the Near Longest Path Filter to keep an eye on next week’s concerns….
See also a related blog entry: Tracing Near Longest Paths with BPC Logic Filter
In the presence of Deadlines, Constraints, variable Calendars, and resource leveling, Total Slack becomes unreliable as an indicator of the Critical Path. For projects where the project completion is designated by the last task in the schedule, I use the Longest Path Filter to identify the Critical Path….
For more information and some background, have a look at this entry: What is the Longest Path in a Project Schedule
Here’s another video of BPC Logic Filter in action – this time revisiting the themes of previous blog entry: The Resource Critical Path
Here is a video showing BPC Logic Filter in action, and repeating the same general themes as A Logic Tracing Example in Microsoft Project.
