Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Why You Should Avoid Mandatory Activity Constraints

If you just cannot get your schedule to match an important finish milestone deadline you may be tempted to go “thermonuclear” by inserting a Mandatory Finish constraint on the milestone. You’ll definitely get your important finish date this way, but there will be collateral damage to your schedule. Let’s explore this.

If you want a child to stay away from a stove top burner you could simply tell the child ‘do not touch’. A more indirect approach is to tell them about the stove, and in doing so provide them knowledge that warns them to stay away. The later approach is our intent today in explaining mandatory constraints. We are telling you how mandatory constraints work not so you will haphazardly use them, but so that you will know enough to be cautious and even wary of their use.

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