How to identify near critical chains?
When Aurora determines the critical chain it calculates the sequence(s) of both precedence- and resource-dependent tasks that prevent the project from being completed in a shorter time, given the finite resources. Aurora includes a few methods for determining which one of the candidate critical chains should be considered the project’s Critical Chain. However, all the tasks that were candidate critical chain elements are so noted. If one wanted to take this a step further, and determine activities that were within a certain tolerance of being on the critical chain, that would be something that could be added, but it would not be difficult as this type of information is already stored in Aurora.
