MS Project

Hi Jeff

thanks for your question. First thing to bear in mind is that MS Project can schedule from a start or finish date. The default setting is to schedule from a start date as this allows the software to calculate the most compact version of your schedule.

There is a feature that lets you move a project keeping all the tasks in the same relative position. You may find this helpful when you wish to move your plan and some of your tasks are unlinked.

To do this go to View > Toolbars and make sure your Analysis toolbar is switched on.

On the analysis toolbar click on Adjust dates and set your new start date. MS Project will move the plan accordingly.

Unfortunately building a shedule in the way you describe is not the way the software is set up to work.

In theory it would be possible to model the Contract Go Live date with a constraint and connect the earlier tasks with Start to Finish relationships working backwards and the subsequent tasks could be linked Finish to Start to the end of the project. You may however get unexpected results when viewing the Critical path or when the plan is updated.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Andrew


Kind regards,
Andrew