Track Project Changes and showcase the ripple effect

John Ciarrochi

Hello SS Community :)

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to track project changes and more so how to showcase the ripple effect of that change. I guess sort of a what if analysis, if I pushed the date back on this task how would that affect the overall project or what part of the project would be affected? Would this be based on predecessors?

In summary can I highlight or somehow log all task that are affected by changing the start/finish of a particular task. (If that makes sense)

Thank you

John C.

Genevieve P.

Hi @John Ciarrochi

Yes, this would be based on predecessor relationships and dependencies!

The way I would personally do this is to set a Baseline on my project. That way when task dates are updated and push out other tasks, you can immediately see the Variance in the Variance column, as well as the difference in the Gantt chart. You could then even set up Conditional Formatting on that Variance column.

Here's a webinar that goes through setting a Baseline: Keep Your Projects on Track with Baselines

Cheers,

Genevieve