PLANNING – SCHEDULE CHECKS FOR SCHEDULING TOOL

The purpose of the following quality control checks is to ensure the plan is of sufficient quality to be used by the program management team to manage the project.  Plans that don’t meet the quality criteria should not be used by the program management team.

 

Item	Condition	Description	Filter Description
1	Constrained	This filter selects those tasks and milestones that have a predecessor and are constrained. Ideally a critical path network should be free of constraints. The exceptions to this are specific delivery milestones.	Pred <> “” AND Constraint Type = “Start No Earlier Than” OR “Must Finish On” OR “Finish No Earlier Than” AND Not 100%
2	Future Actual	Check to see if tasks in the future have actual work allocated to them.	Actual Work > ‘0’ AND Start > ‘Schedule Date’
3	Summary with a Predecessor	Summaries with dependencies. This is permitted but not preferred as it can lead to confusing critical path networks	Summary = Yes AND  Pred <> “”
4	Summary with Successor	Summaries with dependencies. This is permitted but not preferred as it can lead to confusing critical path networks	Summary = Yes AND  Succ <> “”
5	No Predecessor	Select those tasks that are yet to start that have no predecessor. Float will not be indicated in the absence of  predecessor or successor	% Complete = 0% AND Pred = “”
6	No Successor	Select those tasks that are yet to start that have no successor. Float will not be indicated in the absence of  predecessor or successor	% Complete = 0% AND Succ = “”
7	Before Time Now	Select those task and milestones that are incomplete and were due to complete prior to the current date.	Finish < “Current Date” AND % Complete <100%
8	No Resource	Selects those tasks which do not have a resource	Resource Name = “” AND % Complete <> 100%
9	No Baseline	Selects non-Baselined tasks and milestones	Baseline Finish = NA AND % Complete < 100%
10	Resourced Non Task	Selects summaries with resources assigned to them.	Summary = Yes AND Resource Name <> “”