10/21/2021 by Mike Fortuna Tags: FastTrack Schedule, Tips and Tricks
Some users are finding their date formats have changed after installing the latest version of FastTrack Schedule for Mac.
10/30/2017 by Jackie Dembinsky
AEC Software is happy to announce an update to its award-winning Project Management software, FastTrack Schedule: Version 10.2.1.
02/05/2017 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: FastTrack Schedule, FastTrack Schedule Environment, Tips and Tricks
Schedules are living documents, so oftentimes we need to review them regularly to look at what has been done so far and make changes to what still needs to happen. One of the easiest ways to do this is to hold reoccurring weekly meetings. FastTrack Schedule makes it easy to pick each specific date and […]
10/15/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: Best Practice, Defining Dependencies, Dependencies, FastTrack Schedule 10, Linking, Tips and Tricks
As we saw within our last FastTrack Schedule Best Practice post, there can often be many different ways of setting up features within a schedule. After creating the activity bars within a schedule, typically the next step is to define the dependencies between them. Just like with creating the bars themselves FastTrack Schedule 10 will […]
09/11/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: Activity Bars, Best Practice, Estimating Duration, FastTrack Schedule 10, Tips and Tricks
In project management, there can often be many different methods for accomplishing project goals. In some cases, there will be what is considered a “best practice” method that will provide the best possible end-result. In FastTrack Schedule there are a wide variety of options when it comes to schedule setup, and in most cases, several […]
05/21/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: Critical Path, Dependencies, FastTrack Schedule 10, Linking, Tips and Tricks
Displaying the critical paths in a schedule is often paramount to the success of the project. Project managers need to be able to easily view and manipulate these paths so that they can determine what tasks could potentially cause a delay, or worse, in the project. Sometimes it may not always be easy to see […]
05/07/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: Bar Legend, FastTrack Schedule 10, FastTrack Schedule Environment, Legend, Tips and Tricks
When setting up schedules in FastTrack Schedule, we have the ability to assign unique bar styles to any of the activities that we create. Typically bar styles are assigned with some sort of specific meaning in mind. For example, they may be used to represent the resources assigned, the phase of the project that task […]
04/02/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: FastTrack Schedule 10, Tips and Tricks, WBS, WBS Coding, Work Breakdown Structure
While FastTrack Schedule 10 can display a detailed Gantt chart of everything that happens within a project, one graphical view that is not displayed is the Work Breakdown Structure or WBS. Normally, the WBS displays the hierarchical breakdown of the project according to its phases or deliverables. Even though FastTrack does not have a graphical […]
01/22/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: Display, FastTrack Schedule 10, Non-Work, Timeline Graph, Tips and Tricks, Work Exceptions
Accounting for and tracking non-working time in projects can be just as important as tracking when activities occur. For this reason, the way we display our non-working periods in a schedule can be key, especially when sharing schedules with other users. FastTrack Schedule 10 offers several options for how users can format and display non-working […]
01/12/2015 by Jackie Dembinsky Tags: Backward Scheduling, Dependencies, FastTrack Schedule 10, FastTrack Schedule Environment, Tips and Tricks
Backward Scheduling is a scheduling method used when the Finish Date of our project is already known, and we wish to determine when the project and corresponding tasks should occur to finish by this point. FastTrack Schedule 10 does not offer a standard option for setting a schedule up to follow a backwards scheduling method. […]