From the course: Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project
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Filtering to show multiple critical paths - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project
Filtering to show multiple critical paths
- Now that we have our project file down to the 30-day constraint window, we'd like to look at additional items that might be possible. We no longer need the Critical column, so we're going to hide that column. So I've right-click on that column and I'm selecting Hide Column. I want to look at a threshold around the critical path to determine how far away are some of the non-critical activities. So, I'm going to scroll down to the bottom of the project file where I can see I have additional non-critical activities. I'm going to go to the File ribbon and select Options. And on the Options, I'm going to select Advanced and scroll down to the bottom. On this particular dialog box, I can see that tasks are critical if slack is less than or equal to zero. That's my current setting. However, I might want to increase that value to two so that I can see tasks that are close or near critical. I then want to press OK. And as you can see, near critical tasks now go on to the critical path. So…
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