Check Schedule Dialog Box of the Activities Page

Overview

Use this dialog box to define and select criteria on which to run a report and check the health of the schedule.

Screen Elements

Logic option

Determines whether the report will check activity logic.

This check identifies activities that do not have a predecessor and successor. This helps to identify how well the schedule is linked together. The default target is less than 5 percent.

Negative Lags option

Determines whether the report will check for activities with negative lags.

This check identifies relationships with a lag duration of less than 0 between activities. This helps to avoid critical path and total float distortion in the schedule. The default target is less than 1 percent.

Lags option

Determines whether the report will check relationship lag duration.

This check identifies positive lag relationships between activities, showing the relationships that might constrain a schedule. The default target is less than 5 percent.

Long Lags option

Determines whether the report will check for activities with a long lag. The default long lag value is 352h (44 days at 8 hours per day).

This check identifies lags that are longer than the value you specify. The default target is less than 5 percent.

Relationship Types option

Determines whether the report will check the relationship types between activities.

This check identifies Finish to Start relationships. The default target is greater than 90 percent.

Hard Constraints option

Determines whether the report will check for hard constraints.

This check identifies the constraints that prevent activities from being moved because of schedule logic. The default target is less than 1 percent.

Soft Constraints option

Determines whether the report will check for soft constraints.

This check identifies the constraints that do not prevent an activity from being moved because of schedule logic. The default target is less than 5 percent.

Large Float option

Determines whether the report will check for activities with a large float. The default large float value is 352h (44 days at 8 hours per day).

This check identifies activities with a total float longer than the value you specify. Activities with a large float might be missing predecessors or successors. A high number of large floats might indicate that the network is unstable and not logic driven. The default target is less than 1 percent.

Negative Float option

Determines whether the report will check for activities with a negative float.

This check identifies activities with a total float less than 0. Activities with a negative float need to be justified. Negative float might indicate that the schedule needs to be corrected. The default target is less than 1 percent.

Large Durations option

Determines whether the report will check for activities with a large duration. The default large duration value is 352h (44 days at 8 hours per day).

This check identifies activities with a remaining duration greater than the value you specify. Large duration activities could potentially be broken down into more discrete activities that provide better insight into cost and schedule. The default target is less than 5 percent.

Invalid Progress Dates option

Determines whether the report will check for invalid progress dates.

This check identifies actual dates that occur after the data date or incomplete activity dates scheduled before the data date. This helps to identify activities with invalid dates. The default target is less than 1 percent.

Resource/Cost option

Determines whether the report will check for activities that do not have an expense or resource assigned.

This check identifies the resources/costs assigned to each activity. A plan without resources and costs is not as meaningful. The default target is less than 1 percent.

Late Activities option

Determines whether the report will check for late activities.

This check identifies activities that are planned to finish later than their baseline finish. This indicates how well the project is performing against the currently selected baseline. The default target is less than 5 percent.

BEI option

Determines whether the report will calculate the Baseline Execution Index (BEI) ratio.

This check measures the number of activities that have been completed as a ratio to those activities that should have been completed according to the baseline. The default target is a BEI of 0.95 or greater.

Target selector

Determines the value associated with the option. If the value follows a < symbol, the target is to have the option item be less than the listed value. If the value follows a > symbol, the target is to have the option item be greater than the listed value. The value is a percentage for all checks except BEI which is a ratio.

Getting Here

Click Projects.
On the Projects navigation bar, click Activities.
On the Activities page, click the Actions menu and select Check Schedule.

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