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Another feature of Enterprise Scheduling is the ability to see the project's critical path i.e. allows you to see which tasks will affect the completion date of the schedule - before you move them!
The critical path is visible via the Task Gantt view of the schedule, and in this instance, scrolling down the bottom of our gantt chart, we can see that we have a ’90 Days of Maintenance’ task as our final task, at the end of our schedule.
Moving up to the top right of the page, we will find the ‘Show Critical Path’ tick box to the right, above the gantt task status colour coding.
Another feature of Enterprise Scheduling is the ability to see the project's critical path i.e. allows you to see which tasks will affect the completion date of the schedule - before you move them!
This will highlight (in red) the last task(s) of your schedule - by their final end date - and any connected tasks (also highlighted in red) with links to it.
As you can see, the ‘Final inspection with the client and handover’ task is connected with a finish-to-start link with the ’90 days of maintenance’ task. Moving the 'final inspection' task would also move the 'maintenance' task delivery date, thereby becoming part of the critical path - as a result, the 'final inspection' task is also highlighted in red.
Any tasks or milestones that are connected to the final task, in such a way that moving said task or milestone would affect the end date of the final task - becomes part of the critical path.
While turning the critical path on, will hide any task status colours on the schedule gantt, it is a really handy tool to turn on when updating your schedule, to help you keep an eye on any tasks that may potentially push out the delivery date on a project!