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    Negative Float Because of Imposed Constraint On The Project Finish Date

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    1. Negative floats can occur when a constraint is imposed on the project finish date or an activity finish date. This constrains the schedule in a way that violates the original relationships between activities. 2. To resolve negative floats from constraints, the schedule must be compressed, typically through fast tracking or crashing activities on the critical path. Relationships between activities may also need to be modified. 3. Negative floats can occasionally appear on summary activities due to schedule option settings. The setting for calculating total float should be checked.

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    1. Negative floats can occur when a constraint is imposed on the project finish date or an activity finish date. This constrains the schedule in a way that violates the original relationships between activities. 2. To resolve negative floats from constraints, the schedule must be compressed, typically through fast tracking or crashing activities on the critical path. Relationships between activities may also need to be modified. 3. Negative floats can occasionally appear on summary activities due to schedule option settings. The setting for calculating total float should be checked.

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    1. Negative floats can occur when a constraint is imposed on the project finish date or an activity finish date. This constrains the schedule in a way that violates the original relationships between activities. 2. To resolve negative floats from constraints, the schedule must be compressed, typically through fast tracking or crashing activities on the critical path. Relationships between activities may also need to be modified. 3. Negative floats can occasionally appear on summary activities due to schedule option settings. The setting for calculating total float should be checked.

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    Negative Float Because of Imposed Constraint On The Project Finish Date

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    1. Negative floats can occur when a constraint is imposed on the project finish date or an activity finish date. This constrains the schedule in a way that violates the original relationships between activities. 2. To resolve negative floats from constraints, the schedule must be compressed, typically through fast tracking or crashing activities on the critical path. Relationships between activities may also need to be modified. 3. Negative floats can occasionally appear on summary activities due to schedule option settings. The setting for calculating total float should be checked.

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    Negative Float because of Imposed Constraint on the Project Finish Date:

    Consider the project below as our sample project and pay attention to total float and early finish
    date columns of this project:

    On project menu and under dates tab we can find the “Must Finish By” imposed date of our
    project the same as our scheduled finish date:
    Now assume that our project requirements have been changed and we need to finish our project
    plan on 11-March-2018, instead of 11-April-18.

    One way to make this adjustment is to change the “Must Finish By” date to 11-March-2018:

    After re-scheduling the project with this newly imposed date, notice what happens to the “Total
    Float” column:
    You will have negative Total Floats. Essentially, this negative float is the amount of time that
    must be saved to bring the project to completion on time.

    So, what can we do about this? How can we bring the project to on time completion?

    Solution:

    Well, we’re supposed to follow the project requirements, so we need to compress our project
    schedule.

    The most common methods that can be used to shorten the project duration while maintaining
    the project scope are either “fast tracking” or “crashing” techniques.

    In fast tracking, activities on the critical longest path that would have been performed
    sequentially using the original schedule, are assessed for the possibility of working in parallel. In
    using fast tracking method, if we cannot save enough time on the schedule, we can apply the
    crashing technique.

    In the crashing method, resources are added to the activities on the critical path and the duration
    of activities are reduced as a result.

    Going back to our sample project, by using either crashing or fast tracking techniques, the
    project finish date would go back to 11-Mar-2018 and all the negative total floats would be
    resolved.
    2. Negative Float because of Imposed Constraint on an Activity or Milestone:

    Now assume that we have another requirement on our initial schedule, which asks us to award
    the contract no later than 01-May-2017. Consequently, we need to define a constraint on “Award
    Contract” activity to represent this new requirement:

    By imposing “Finish on or Before” constraint, the total float of this activity will turn negative.
    The reason is that adding this new date constraint has overruled the pre-defined relationship of
    this activity.

    Now the question is what we can do about this issue? How can we remove the negative float in
    this case?

    Solution:

    The defined relationships of related activities need to be evaluated and modified so that the finish
    date of “Award Contract” activity goes at least on 01-May-2017 and consequently, the associated
    negative floats are resolved.
    3- Negative Float on Summary Activities:

    Although it’s rare, there might be a possibility to have negative floats for “level of effort” or
    “WBS Summary” activities. The main reason is due to changing a setting in primavera p6
    schedule option tab.

    If you use level of effort or WBS summary activities in your schedule always make sure that the
    schedule calculates “Total Float” as “Finish Float=Late Finish-Early Finish”. Otherwise, you
    might encounter negative float for these kinds of activities:

    In summary, you learned three main reasons why negative floats exist in a schedule and
    strategies to remove them:
    • Negative Float because of Imposed Constraint on the Project Finish Date
    Solution: Remove any finish date constraints and compress the schedule by Fast Tracking
    or Crashing methods
    • Negative Float because of Imposed Constraint on an Activity or Milestone
    Solution: Evaluate and modify the conflicts between constraint and relationships.
    Remove or change any “Hard constraints” that prevent the logical float calculation from
    flowing.
    • Negative Float on Summary Activities
    Solution: Check the schedule options and to compute “Total Float” as “Finish Float=Late
    Finish-Early Finish”

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