Your project schedule can be calculated one of two ways: when you choose the Schedule command or each time you make a change that affects schedule dates.
The Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling technique is used to calculate project schedules. CPM uses activity durations and relationships between activities to calculate the project schedule.
When you choose to calculate a schedule, all activities in the network are examined, beginning with the first and ending with the last, to calculate the earliest start and finish dates for each activity.
The activities are then reexamined in a backward pass, beginning with the latest early finish of the last activity in the network and ending with the first activity, to calculate the latest start and finish dates for each activity.
Float values are calculated using the duration and calendar definitions for the activity.
In addition to scheduling a project, you can also level resources.
You can calculate the schedule each time activity data change, rescheduling activities that have changed significantly and or that were affected by a change to the first activity. If automatic scheduling is turned on, the schedule recalculates each time a significant change is made to an activity, relationship, or resource. If you turn off automatic scheduling, changes to activities are not reflected in the schedule until you calculate the schedule again.
You can also level resources during automatic scheduling.
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