Re: Critical Path

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Vincent, perhaps you can explain to your customer that different software
packages implement critical path calculations in different ways. It appears
PV uses the algorithm more literally, where as Microsoft Project is more in
line with how ANSI/PMI and the general industry are interpreting the matter.

By the way, here is an interesting read:
http://www.gridbus.org/papers/DCP-eScience2007.pdf

Also, please do not confuse high power mathmatics with the scheduling
techniques used by the commercially available software (from various
vendors). I am reminded of the mathmatician who lets a pile of papers burn
on his desk and does nothing. The engineer, who puts the fire out with the
glass of water on the mathmaticians desk asks why he let the papers burn.
The mathmatician replied, "The solution was intuitively obvious."

So, what the theory says must be implemented considering practical and
acceptable measures.
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"Vincent Isoz" wrote:

Ok thanks for your answer.

I won't make any comment about definition of the PMBOK (that is far away to
be a reference for complex projects). But if the ANSI accepted it i have
nothing to say.

Otherwise i have a question for the specialists you are. How do you manage
yourself tasks in sharepoint that are show as critical but that have a
physicial slack not equal to zero (i don't speak about the calculate slack of
MS Project but the "physical slack" like Primavera calculates)?

Thanks a lot for your answer because i have to answer to my customers how to
manage this...
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