Risk Tasks and Software Tools
Software packages are not designed to make it easy and straightforward to insert and use risk tasks in Gantt charts. If you use Microsoft Project 2002®, you are going to have to tweak it just a little in order to make it work for you. When building the Gantt chart using this software, you must use a linking button to connect the successors to their predecessors. If you do this, you do not have to worry about dates. The software will start the successor the day after the predecessor finishes.
When you are using the software as a project monitoring tool, it will hold an original “Base Line” for you. However, it will extend on the Gantt chart the start dates of tasks that are farther down the line whenever a task runs ...
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