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Manage negative slack in a schedule

Manage negative slack in a schedule

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Manage negative slack in a schedule

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- [Bonnie] Hi, Bonnie Biafore here. In Project, total slack is the time a task can move without affecting the project finish date. If total slack is negative, that tells you how much you need to shorten the schedule to deliver on time. In this project tip, I'll show you how to display negative slack so it's easier to figure out how to shorten the schedule. In this project, I'm gonna scroll down to the bottom of my task list. I have a task, number 90, event day. If you look in the indicators column, there's an icon there of a calendar, but it has a yellow triangle with an exclamation point. If you position your pointer over that, the warning tells you that the task starts on a date that's different than its must start on date constraint. So that's a problem. We're gonna need to somehow get some time back in the schedule to get this to occur when it should. Now, before we go any further, if you don't see this indicator, let me show you the options that you need to change. So let's go to…

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