On Time' vs 'At Risk' Project Condition

Oh, this one's chock-full of intrigue! From help.workfront.com, I suggest "https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/217239547-Understanding-Project-Condition">Understanding Project Condition for an overview, "https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/216636598-Understanding-Task-Duration-and-Duration-Type">Understanding Task Duration and Duration Type (to answer Christine's background question), "https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/217297147-Task-Constraint-Overview">Understanding Task Constraints (to Norma's ASAP advice), and "https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/217240367-Recalculating-Timelines-for-Projects">Recalculating Timelines for Projects (as a reminder that time marches on). Pavlin, as an experiment, I'd then suggest you: - Temporarily change the one non-ASAP Task to ASAP - Recalculate the Timeline of your Project - Check whether doing so resolves your At Risk condition - reverse the first step - Recalculate the Timeline of your Project again - Check whether doing so causes your At Risk condition Regards, Doug Doug Den Hoed - AtAppStore Got Skills? Lend a hand! https://community.workfront.com/participate/unanswered-threads

This topic leads me to a question that's been on my mind. What views or checks do you have to find out where your project timeline is going off the rails? I use the Status Icons where the first one turns red when it's late, but it isn't useful to find out when you have too many days of Durations and not enough days in the schedule – which is when the Due Dates at the end of a chain of tasks start to pile up, but it can be very hard to spot. I would love to know how to spot this quickly. Thanks! Jill

The way I spot it is by updating the tasks in my plan each week to ensure the plan is up to date. Then I can compare the Planned Completion Date to the date I've committed to. If I'm a day off on a project that's due in December, I don't worry too much. If it's a week late, I starting crashing the critical path etc. to see what adjustments I need to make. Of course this only works if you have a through plan with Predecessors, etc. If not, you don't have a valid critical path to tell you how late you are. You also have to have the Schedule From set to Start. If you use Schedule from Completion you're not able to tell how far behind you are because you've locked the end date. Your comment on Tasks piling up at the end made me think you might be using this setting. And tasks piling up at the end is the result of this setting and it constrains the information you want/need. Another way to get an idea is to display the Project Completion Date column next to your Planned Completion Date column. Project Completion Date gives you Workfront's estimate (based on your % Complete etc.) on when this Task (and Project) will be done. If you compare it to the Planned Completion Date it should give you an idea how late the task (or project) is. Vic Alejandro, PMP, CSM | IT Program Manager Denver Water | t: (303-628-7262) | c: (303-319-6473) "http://www.denverwater.org/"> http://www.denverwater.org INTEGRITY | VISION | PASSION | EXCELLENCE | RESPECT