From the course: Leading Projects
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Manage project slack
- Slack, it's a hidden part of every project plan. And managing slack properly can make a huge difference in how well your team is able to execute the plan. In this video we'll learn what slack is and how to manage it like a pro. If an activity on your project plan can be delayed without pushing out the finish date of the project, then that activity has slack. Some people also call this float. The amount of slack or float is the amount of time that a task can be delayed without causing a delay to the completion of the project. Tasks that are on the critical path don't have any slack. If any one of those tasks is delayed then it will delay the whole project. But the tasks that aren't on the critical path do have slack, and that can come in handy. For example, let's look at a situation that came up during the project at H+ Sport. There were two developers on the team working on different activities at the same time. One of…
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