Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – When adding resources, DO use ONLY the enterprise resource pool, DON’T add local resources to a task. Visit Tip of the Week for more tips.

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – DO input all of your tasks as “Fixed Duration” and not “Effort Driven” o (Tools>Options>Schedule tab) o Exception: For planning purposes; use “Effort Driven” to see the results of resource

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts –  DON’T leave estimated task durations in your schedule (“?” in duration field).

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts -DO use Hard Logic and Soft Logic when assigning predecessors and successors: o Soft Logic tasks can be worked in any order, but MUST be related to another task, assigned as

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – DO give ALL tasks both tasks predecessors and successors, 4 exceptions to the rule: o No predecessor for the start task / milestone o No successor the for the end task

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – DON’T use a negative lag.

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – DON’T use a “Deadline”.

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – DO  only use the “As Soon As Possible” constraint.

Tip of the Week: Project Schedule Do’s and Don’ts – DO only use Finish-to-Start relationships. (Exceptions to this rule must be documented.)