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Gantt chart dependencies are links between bars: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish, with optional lag. How to draw each.
Good task assignment gives every task one owner, keeps it on that person's list, and records each reassignment. Four rules, and how Onplana applies them.
Show the MS Project critical path in two clicks, then check it. Five things make the red bars lie: constraints, open ends, manual tasks, calendars and lag.
Multiple assignees blur who is accountable and who is loaded. Onplana keeps one assignee per task and adds up to 20 collaborators who see it and can update it.
A schedule baseline is the approved plan you freeze after the logic is clean, then measure every slip against. What it captures, when to set it, what it proves.
Subtasks split work that can be finished and checked in pieces. Work that is one deliverable with several helpers needs one owner plus collaborators instead.
A project status report template of six one-line items: RAG, progress, blockers, decisions, next milestone. Copy the weekly version and keep it on the project.
An XER file is a Primavera P6 export in tab-delimited text. See what it holds, why converters break it, and three ways to open one without a P6 licence.
Action items tracking turns a line in the minutes into a task with one owner and a date. Here is the five-step loop, and why untracked items quietly die.