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Find tasks with excessive float

Find tasks with excessive float

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Find tasks with excessive float

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- [Bonnie] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore. One scheduling best practice is that tasks with high float should represent 5% or less of the project tasks. In this tip we'll look at how to calculate the percentage of tasks with excessive float. Well, before we do that, what is high float? It depends on the length of the project. This project is about seven months duration, so I'm going to use one month as high float. That means we're going to look for tasks that have float that's greater than one month or 20 work days. We're going to start by inserting the Total Slack field in this table. Total slack is the same as the total float of a task. So I'm going to right-click a heading or a column and then choose Insert Column, and when I find the Total Slack field in the list I click it to add it to the table. In order to calculate the percentage of tasks with high float I need three custom number fields, but I've already set one of them up in another tip. We're going to start by adding the Number9…

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