{"id":1048,"date":"2019-07-29T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2019-07-29T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:54:05","slug":"not-started-activities-with-no-active-predecessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/2019\/07\/29\/not-started-activities-with-no-active-predecessors\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Started Activities with no Active Predecessors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If an uncompleted activity\u2019s\npredecessors are all complete, then it would be reasonable to expect that the\nactivity in question should be in progress. The possible exception is when a\npredecessor completes just prior to the Data Date allowing the successor\nactivity status to be \u201cnot started\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any event, not started\nactivities without active predecessors should be examined further to determine\nif the status should be updated or if a logic revision is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Z\u00fcmmer Analysis Report #25 \u2013 \u201cNot\nStarted Activities with No Active Predecessors\u201d lists all activities that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a) have not started and; <br>\nb) the \u201cimmediate\u201d predecessor(s) are all complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The column titled \u201cES Var To Data\nDate\u201d lists the variance between the activity\u2019s Early Start (ES) and the Data\nDate. If the variance is small or Zero, then this is typically an indication\nthat the activity is \u201cRiding the Data Date\u201d; (meaning the Data Date is\ncontrolling the ES for the activity). If the variance is large, then this is\ntypically an indication that the activity is restrained (commonly by the\nRetained Logic Rule) by an uncompleted \u201cdistant\u201d predecessor.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon review of the schedule logic shown above and in the illustration below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Line Item #1, Activity A1040, with and ES Variance =0, is \u201cRiding the Data Date\u201d and its immediate predecessor, A1020 \u2013 Activity B is complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"216\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/T015B-Not-Started-Activities-With-no-Active-Predecessors.jpg?resize=840%2C216\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/T015B-Not-Started-Activities-With-no-Active-Predecessors.jpg?w=1001&amp;ssl=1 1001w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/T015B-Not-Started-Activities-With-no-Active-Predecessors.jpg?resize=300%2C77&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/T015B-Not-Started-Activities-With-no-Active-Predecessors.jpg?resize=768%2C197&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copyright \u00a92019 FoxQuest Systems, Inc. &#8211; All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an uncompleted activity\u2019s predecessors are all complete, then it would be reasonable to expect that the activity in question should be in progress. The possible exception is when a predecessor completes just prior to the Data Date allowing the successor activity status to be \u201cnot started\u201d. In any event, not started activities without active &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/2019\/07\/29\/not-started-activities-with-no-active-predecessors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Started Activities with no Active Predecessors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/T015A-Not-Started-Activities-With-no-Active-Predecessors.jpg?fit=1003%2C183&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}