How it Works

The Excel Scheduler includes CPM (Critical Path Management) models for hourly, daily, or weekly time units.

By determining early and late starting points for each task, as well as task duration and precedence relationships, the template generates a Gantt Chart showing which tasks are critical; that is, must be done on time, otherwise the entire schedule will slip.

Functionality also includes ability to do "what-if" analysis to accommodate changes without missing deadlines.

The scheduling techniques include:

job and task sequencing,
development of calendars,
construction of several different types of Gantt charts,
processing idle periods,
due-date assignment,
computation of lateness and other performance measures, and scheduling of work according to precedence relationships.

These techniques can be extracted and assembled in many different ways.