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When building your activity network, the following items are considered Best Practice...
PLEASE ADD TO, OR AMEND THIS LIST...
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Milestones do not have resources / budget (a milestone does not have scope)
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Thou shall not have negative lag on a task / activity. Most people are pretty soft on that, but
general opinion is that negative lag predicts the future with certainty and that is poor logic
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GoldyLocks was right - tasks are not too long or too short, they have to be "just right" in
duration. You have to decide what that means and set sensible / justifiable durations.
( Quantiies & Norms will help you achieve the correct duration and the addition of available
personnel to complete the task will help finalise the duration)
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Constraint types: You want them to be As Soon As Possible as much as you can. Start-NoEarlier-Than, Finish-As-Late-As-Possible, and Finish-No-Earlier-Than are tolerable. Items like MustFinish-On, Must-Start-On, Finish-No-Later-Than, Start-No-Later-Than are pretty much not a good
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Constraints in the programme should not limit, or affect, the CPM analysis of the network
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